Further to Chris's post below, I wanted to announce that Complex Terrain Lab will be hosting, in addition to the event just passed that Chris mentions, an online blog discussion of Antoine Bosquet's The Scientific Way of Warfare, between Friday, December 5 and Monday, December 8. It will feature a number of guest bloggers, including me, and, having read most...
I just came across (a little late I'm afraid) this notice for a program that the Complex Terrain Lab had in London called "BattleSpaces: Feral Cities and the Scientific Way of Warfare." The speakers were Geoff Manaugh of the excellent BLDGBLOG (he has a post on the event here) and Antoine Bousquet, lecturer on international relations at Birkbek College. The...
I will be spending most of the next two months in Europe, with the following itinerary: Vienna, December 7-17 Leuven, December 17-20 Vienna, December 20-26 Rome, December 26-January 1 Amsterdam/The Hague, January 1-February 1 If any OJ readers in those cities -- students, academics, activists, etc. -- would like to meet for coffee or a drink, please don't hesitate to contact me: k.heller@auckland.ac.nz....
(Professor Martin Scheinin, whose mission and report on the US and counterterrorism and human rights I discussed below, was kind enough to post a substantive response to my earlier post, "Try or Release." Particularly since I was quite critical of that report, let me move Professor's Scheinin's response up to its own post. Apologies for not noticing it earlier -...
I take Deborah's point in our conversation below on the administrative detention point, and think she is probably being a little bit nicer to me than I deserve in suggesting that I am running together two things - law and policy. Fair point, and although I might return to it sometime next year (if I can persuade myself to assign...
For the last few weeks, popular culture has become reacquainted with the less romantic side of piracy. (For the romantic side, picture my 2 year old running around my living room -- yes, this Thanksgiving morning -- dressed with eye patch, bandana, "puffy pants" and a plastic sword yelling "arrgh" at the top of his lungs.) But, with seizures of...
Thanks Ken. Let me try to clarify again. On one level, you’re quite right: many human rights advocates believe a new system of administrative detention – beyond the criminal law and beyond the Geneva regime – is not a good idea as a matter of policy. (I hasten to add many who are not human rights advocates think...
Secretary General Ban Ki Moon has been criticized by some as being invisible, at least compared with his rock-star predecessor, Kofi Annan. However, he has emerged as UN frontman for a new campaign from the UN for a plan for a simultaneous global jobs and economic recovery program together with green program. The SG's program is outlined in op-ed form...
Thanks to Deborah for that thoughtful response re the administrative detention debate ongoing now ...
As a follow-up to Peggy's very interesting post below on the performance of global versus non-global law firms, let me raise an issue that has, for obvious reasons, disappeared in the last year, but which was a topic of discussion in 2007 and might well re-surface at point in the future: law firms going public via an IPO and listing...
With apologies for arriving late to the helpful Hakimi-Waxman-Anderson exchange, I thought it worth noting the apparent consensus on at least one position I, too, share: there is no categorical international law prohibition on “administrative” (or otherwise non-criminal) detention. Indeed, at risk of repeating myself, I’m not sure I could name a human rights or humanitarian law scholar I...
Michael Goldhaber at the Amlaw Daily is unconvinced. Drawing from some of the data discussed at last week's ASIL-Harvard Law School conference on Globalization of the Legal Profession, Golhaber summarizes the presentations at HLS, crunches the numbers, and looks at the dangers lurking (or already arrived) for firms staking their futures on emerging markets: James Jones, who chairs the Hildebrandt Institute,...
