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18 Feb

I'm off to Tokyo for a week, but before I go, wanted to flag a really interesting looking upcoming conference at Fordham Law School.  It's entitled, Cyber Attacks: International Cybersecurity in the 21st Century and will take place next Friday, February 25, 2011.  The program is free, subject to registration (see here).  The line-up looks great too:  9:00am–9:30am Registration 09:30am–10:00am Welcome 10:00am–11:45am Cyber Attacks and the Law of Armed Conflict Moderator: Prof....

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17 Feb

A proposition at the center of much international development work in the past decade or more has been the importance of institutions - whether one talks about "good governance" or the "rule of law" or other terms referring to institutions of governance in a society that permit stability across time.  The claim has always seemed to engage the happy coincidence...

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16 Feb

My home institution, Washington College of Law, American University, will be putting on an important lunchtime program on Friday, February 18,12-2 pm, on the vexed question of what happens next for the Guantanamo detainees. I am committed to another program that day, so I won't be attending, but this program has a stellar lineup of commenters. Jack Goldsmith will deliver the keynote address and the commenters are Robert Chesney, Deborah Pearlstein, and Steve Vladeck; Dan Marcus will moderate. My guess is that the Q&A will be outstanding as well, as knowledgeable people from DC organizations and the various government agencies have told me they plan to attend. The program is below the fold, including information on signing up and CLE credit.
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15 Feb

Even when Moreno-Ocampo wins, he loses.  Pre-Trial Chamber II recently rejected a request by Mohammed Hussein Ali, one of the six Kenyans for whom the OTP has sought summonses, to submit "observations" on the investigation  That was an easy call; nothing in the Rome Statute permits a suspect to participate in the investigative process so early.  The Pre-Trial Chamber nevertheless...

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15 Feb

Pennumbra, the on-line companion to the University of Pennsylvania Law Review, is hosting the debate.  John's opening statement and my reply -- which is something of a misnomer, because the reply doesn't directly address John's arguments -- are currently available.  Both focus on Judge Bates' opinion dismissing the ACLU/CCR lawsuit; I argue that, contrary to the Judge's claim, his opinion...

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14 Feb

Today an Ecuador court fined Chevron $8.6 billion for environmental damage. According to the Wall Street Journal, $5.4 billion of that is to restore polluted soil, $1.4 billion to create a health system for the community, $800 million to treat individuals injured by the pollution, $600 million to restore polluted waters, $200 million to restore native species, $150 million...

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14 Feb

For the next five months, I will be a Fulbright Distinguished Lecturer in Law at East China University of Political Science and Law in Shanghai. For a variety of reasons related to my status as a Fulbright Grantee as well as being a blogger living within the range of Chinese internet censors, I will take a sabbatical from blogging here...

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12 Feb

It's been a while since I checked in on the WikiLeaks kerfuffle, so now that the HILJ symposium is over -- and I thought it was great -- I wanted to flag this recent article in the Wall Street Journal, which reports that the government has found no evidence that WikiLeaks or Julian Assange solicited or conspired with Bradley Manning...

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