Georgetown Security Law Brief blog has a super-useful roundup of what a wide variety of people have said about what to do about detainees at Guantanamo. It goes backwards by date, with op eds, articles, blog posts, all sorts of stuff, including stuff from here at OJ. If you want to know what the state of discussion is as of...
Well, not really Stendhal on Thanksgiving. Stendhal never visited the United States, but that did not inhibit him from expressing a great many opinions about the place (mostly negative observations in the 'nation of shopkeepers' vein), particularly in the entire chapter devoted to love in the United States in that curious book-length essay, On Love. Stendhal was highly skeptical...
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 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....
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...
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,...
I have posted a new essay on SSRN, a draft chapter of a book that Markus Dubber and I are editing for Stanford University Press entitled "The Handbook of Comparative Criminal Law." In addition to my chapter, which is something of an outlier, the book contains 17 chapters on the substantive criminal law of individual countries. We have attempted to...
The University of Auckland magazine recently published a copy of the university's 1918 final exam in public international law. I have only the vaguest recollection of the exam I took, but I it wasn't this hard. (Exhibit A: I didn't fail.) Have academic standards really declined so precipitously? How would you fare, readers?...
'The Marquis does not like bloggers, I warn you; it is his one antipathy,' the Abbe Pirard said to Julien. 'Know Latin, Greek if you can, the history of the Egyptians, of the Persians, and so forth; he will honour you and protect you as a scholar. But do not go and post a single page in French, especially upon...
