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10 Sep

(Update: See KJH's post above, particularly pointing out that the prosecutor has not formally opened an investigation, but is only "collecting information."  Likewise Kevin's point that a couple of the laws of war possible violations I mention are not actually crimes under the ICC statute.  Thanks, Kevin.) The Wall Street Journal reports today that the prosecutor's office of the International Criminal...

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09 Sep

As usual, Laura Rozen (now at Politico) is on top of the latest international law news at Foggy Bottom. Columbia Law Professor Sarah Cleveland has been appointed Counselor on International Law in the office of State Department Legal Advisor Harold Koh. According to an email circulated by the school's dean announcing the appointment, Cleveland will "help develop the State Department's...

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05 Sep

Over at Volokh, Michael Scharf and Jonathan Adler each weigh in.  Plus, see the comments to the various posts here at OJ, as well as Peggy's earlier post on this subject at Prawfslawsblog.  And Julian's earlier Prawfslawblog post, too.  (Most of the discussion, though not all, is more narrowly focused on the question of 1L international law courses.)...

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04 Sep

As Ken noted, Eric Posner has responded to my question on whether 1Ls should take international law with an emphatic "No!"  In fact (and perhaps not surprisingly given his scholarly positions) Eric's not very keen on law students taking international law courses at all; he advises them to take statistics instead.  Eric does concede that international law belongs in the...

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04 Sep

I blogged last week about new JD/JD and JD/LLM programs that Melbourne has established with NYU Law School.  I now want to mention another exciting new joint degree program, this time with Oxford University's Faculty of Law.  Melbourne Law School students who enroll in the program will be able to earn both a JD from Melbourne and a BCL --...

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03 Sep

The Perils of Global Legalism (University of Chicago 2009) is just out, I see, and my copy just arrived via the magic of Amazon one-click.  I read an early ms. draft, but am looking forward to reading the final version. This is yet another book from Eric that promises to provoke lots of people in the international law community, but...

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03 Sep

Cross-posted at Balkinization I was all set to zone out this vacation when we happened to stroll past an SUV featuring one bumper sticker (among others) announcing: “Waterboarding: Keep it safe, legal and rare.” Nothing like a little vacation motivation to make me peruse (at an admittedly slower pace) the wave of old OLC memos that came along with the...

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29 Aug

A remark in passing by KJH ("law review editors, I mean you") caused me to recall a question I've had for a while.  Do student law review, or international law review, editors read or know about OJ?  I have asked this question of my own school's international law review editors over the last couple of years, and the answer was...

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28 Aug

Like Duncan, I had my first week of public international law. In a brief introductory discussion on customary international law one of the students asked, "How does a practice that has achieved the status of customary international law cease to become customary international law?" It is an interesting question. We spend plenty of time in international law...

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