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28 Feb

Other blogs have posted information on the new and lateral faculty hires this season. See Concurring Opinions here for lateral hires and Legal Theory Blog here for entry level hires. But none of this information provides details on the legal specializations of any of these hires. So we would like to provide our readers with information on...

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27 Feb

According to the very slick site greatfirewallofchina.org, Opinio Juris can be read in China -- unlike Wikipedia, Amnesty International, the State Department's "democracy" page, the Economist, and Armani. We'll have to try harder. H/T: FP Passport. ...

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27 Feb

Last month I posted a story about a decision coming out of Indiana that required the non-custodial parent to be subject to supervision during parental visitations. The reason the court issued the order was due to fears that the American-Egyptian father would flee with the child to Egypt and never return. The comments generated by the post were some of...

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27 Feb

As advertised, the Chief Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court has released the ICC's first two indictments arising out of its investigation of war crimes in the Darfur region of Sudan. As the BBC reports, the ICC has named Ahmad Muhammad Harun, former Minister of State for the Interior of the Government of the Sudan and the current Minister...

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26 Feb

There's a move afoot to extend honorary citizenship to Anne Frank (report here). The impulse is obviously a benign one, by way of making amends for the US failure to issue timely visas to her and her family. But might there be a little hubris involved here as well, something of an assumption that she would have been...

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26 Feb

OK, I admit I haven't read all 351 pages of the ICJ's judgment in the Bosnia Genocide case. This is a rich and potentially important decision. But here are some initial observations and reactions, along with (after the jump), some key excerpts from the ICJ's opinion. (1) The key headline holding is that Serbia (the state) is not...

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26 Feb

The ICJ has released its judgment in the Case Concerning the Application of the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide (Bosnia and Herzegovina v. Serbia and Montenegro). The Court affirmed it had jurisdiction and found that although Serbia could not be held responsible for genocide, Serbia had violated its obligations under the Genocide Convention...

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26 Feb

[Andrew Kent is a Climenko Fellow at Harvard Law School and beginning next year will be a professor of law at Fordham Law School] Let me start by thanking Opinio Juris for giving me a chance to offer some preliminary thoughts about the D.C. Circuit’s recent decision in Boumediene / Odah Guantanamo detainee litigation. 1. The threshold statutory issue...

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24 Feb

The international law blogosphere is now less lonely — and more gender balanced. The new group blog IntLawGrrls currently has six members, five of whom use pseudonyms of famous women that, with the exception of Mata Hari, I've never heard of. (Which probably makes their point.) The contributors are: Diane Marie Amann (Davis);...

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24 Feb

OK, it's not quite 1780 all over again, but the NYT reports that the U.S. and France have joined forces to protest the application of London's "congestion" pricing scheme to employees of their respective embassies. The U.S-French position (which is joined by a number of other countries) is buttressed by the Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations. I believe the...

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