The Third Circuit earlier this month rendered one of the more interesting decisions I've seen on the subject of Executive Statements of Interest. In Gross v. German Foundation Industrial Initiative, available here, the Court was faced with a claim that interest in excess of DM 100 million was due on the DM 5 billion German slave labor settlement fund....
As some readers may know, I’m a big fan of comparing how domestic actors, including courts, address international law. Of course, the trouble with comparative research has always been accessing materials from foreign jurisdictions. But, help may be on the way. The Amsterdam Center for International Law is working with Oxford University Press to launch a new...
We are pleased that Professor Abraham Bell will be guest blogging with us for the next week or so. Professor Bell has a joint appointment with Fordham Law School and Bar Ilan Law Faculty in Tel Aviv. He has published widely in the area of economic analysis of property law, as well as in international law and the...
According to an unnamed U.S. official, the Iraqi High Tribunal may try Saddam Hussein posthumously if he is executed before a verdict is reached in the Anfal case, which is about to begin: The Anfal trial is to begin on Monday, but a verdict in the other case is expected on October 16, when Iraqi judges will rule on whether...
New York magazine runs the counterhistory here, with notable contributions from Andrew Sullivan, Tom Friedman, Fareed Zakaria, and Ron Suskind. ...
Yes, there is actually a song detailing the history and jursiprudence of the UN Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods ("CISG"). Here's the audiofile, brought to you by Professor Harry Flechtner at the University of Pittsburgh. It is certainly one way to liven up your contracts or international sales class. Download it while it is...
James Fallows has an important article in the current issue of The Atlantic Monthly (subscription required) that argues the United States is succeeding in its struggle against terrorism and that the time has come to declare the war on terrorism over. "Declaring Victory" is a long and thoughtful article that is difficult to summarize. But I will do...
As most of our readers already know, a U.S. federal judge has invalidated the U.S. government's program for wiretapping phone calls without a warrant. I know this is a hard issue, but this is one of the least persuasive opinions I've ever seen on this question. The judge found that the program (called the "Terrorist Surveillance Program") violated the...
I'm sure a few of our readers have some interest in the international legal aspects of the arrest in Thailand of John Mark Karr in the JonBenet Ramsey case. There is some discussion of the topic at the International Extradition Blog. Because it is surprisingly difficult to find information about the U.S.-Thailand Extradition Treaty on the Internet, I...
The Yale Journal of International Law has issued a call for papers for their fifth annual Young Scholars’ Conference. The full announcement and submission information can be found in a link from this page. The conference theme is The “New” New Haven School: International Law—Past, Present & Future and it is scheduled for March 2007. They describe it...
I know that there are hundreds, if not thousands, of former Nazis still roaming the earth -- but I never thought that their ranks would include a Nobel laureate and anti-war icon. So this certainly came as a suprise: Gunter Grass, Germany's greatest living author and doyen of the left, has confessed that he was a teenage member of...
Professor Mariano-Florentino ("Tino") Cuellar at Stanford Law School has an interesting article forthcoming in the Georgetown Journal of International Law on an unusual subject: refugee security. The title of the article is Refugee Security and the Organizational Logic of Legal Mandates. The abstract and article are available for download here. Cuellar presents a compelling case for...
