Professor David Bosco has started a new blog focusing on international organizations, "Eye on IOs." I like his subtitle -- "A blog on the progress and pitfalls of international organizations." It reminds me of a chapter I wrote addressing "progress and paradox" in international security cooperation. (It is nice to have company as a moderate on questions of international institution...
My Volokh Co-Conspirator John Elwood notes the reference to foreign courts, if not precisely law, in Justice Breyer's comment on closing the SCOTUS main front door to visitors....
Australia's government has announced that Australia will accede to the COE Cybercrime Convention (and not, as many are reporting that it will merely "sign" the Convention, which, I suppose, reflects the media's continued inability or unwillingness to sort out the basic issues of treaty formation). With Australian accession, the COE Cybercrime Convention will have 27 states parties. It remains the only cyber-specific multilateral treaty out there. And...
At last night's White House Correspondents Dinner, President Obama cracked a funny joke about his administration's use of Predator Drones for targeted killings. From the Politico: — "The Jonas Brothers are here! ...
Yes, says Human Rights Watch in this press release. According to HRW, the new (and hotly controversial Arizona law) is in conflict with ICERD. I am troubled by the AZ law and think it is likely preempted by other federal law, but I am baffled as to how the AZ law could be a clear violation (or even any...
I've been lite blogging and will be for a bit longer, due to travel and some deadline pressures. I will try to get something up about the latest drone hearing in Congress, the ACLU's letter, and that stuff. Let us not neglect the EU debt crisis, either. Kudos to Northwestern University law school's Searle Center, for the conference I am...
Still catching up on yesterday’s news that DOD released the much-anticipated 2010 edition of the Manual for Military Commissions (MMC). The Manual is here. Among its many provisions of interest (I’m still skimming) are the rules set forth for prosecutions for the commission crime of material support for terrorism – a crime I and others have argued does not...
Arizona's already notorious anti-immigrant measure, enacted last week and making unauthorized presence in the U.S. a crime under state law, isn't likely to last long. But the courts may have nothing to do with its demise. It's the economic hit that Arizona is clearly going to take that will bring the state around, I suspect sooner rather than later. Lost...
Too funny not to post (h/t, Gawker): (The man in the photo, for those who don't know, is Malcolm X, not Obama.)...
On a non-aggression note, Jennifer Howard has an article in yesterday's Chronicle of Higher Education about Karin Calvo-Goller's baseless criminal-libel suit in France against NYU's Joseph Weiler. It's an excellent piece -- and not just because she is kind enough to quote me. Here's a snippet: If you're an author confronted with a negative book review, you have several options. You...
What should South Korea do if it confirms the responsibility of North Korea for the sinking of a South Korean naval vessel? This article quotes a Korean law professor offering three options: Writing in JoongAng Daily, Kim Hyun-soo, professor of international law at Inha University, said Lee has three options if he wishes to avoid risking all-out war on the peninsula. He...
My colleague David Post and I have an op-ed in today's National Law Journal. In it, we challenge the sufficiency of existing responses to cyberattacks, whether in terms of pushing for heightened security, more criminal law enforcement or applying the laws of war (if applicable). Criminal law (and the laws of war for that matter) depends on identifying and holding...
