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06 Nov

[Katherine V. Stone is a Professor at UCLA School of Law] In Labor Flexibility, Legal Reform and Economic Development, Alvaro Santos presents an analysis and critique of the World Bank's Doing Business indicators for labor regulation.  Those indicators have been used to promote an agenda of legal reform dedicated to eliminating worker protections and rights throughout the developing world.  Santos presents...

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05 Nov

The depths to which the extreme right will sink to oppose offering quality healthcare to all Americans really knows no bounds: Disgusting.  Absolutely disgusting. P.S. In case you can't read the sign on your computer, it reads “National Socialist Health Care: Dachau, Germany – 1945.”...

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05 Nov

[Marc Limon is Counsellor of the Mission of the Government of the Maldives to the United Nations, in Geneva, Switzerland] As Professor Knox recognises in his paper, international human rights law is essentially concerned with the relationship between an individual and his or her own State.  This makes it difficult to usefully leverage human rights law in the context...

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04 Nov

My friends David Sloss, Michael Ramsey, and Bill Dodge are the editors of a remarkable forthcoming book on The U.S. Supreme Court and International Law: Continuity or Change?. They have gathered an all-star cast of scholars to address the role of international law in Supreme Court jurisprudence from 1860 to the present. The book will be published by...

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04 Nov

Let me thank Mark Drumbl once again for taking the time to provide his thoughtful response to my Article. As Mark and I agree on many points, I will focus on what appears to be the clearest point of difference between us:  our respective answers to the practical question of how the ICC should instantiate its complementarity principle.   Absent contrary guidance...

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04 Nov

[Mark A. Drumbl is a Professor at Washington and Lee University School of Law] In Complementarity in Crisis:  Uganda, Alternative Justice, and the International Criminal Court, Professor Alexander Greenawalt strikes a cautionary note.  He underscores that the ICC cannot on its own effectively serve transitional justice interests.   It needs help.   In the end, Sasha concludes that "the Ugandan peace process reveals...

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02 Nov

As both Julian and Ken (at VC) have indicated that they believe Arar was rightly decided by the Second Circuit, it's worth noting that Guido Calabresi -- hardly a flaming liberal -- is dissenting in the case, describing the majority's decision as "extraordinary judicial activism."  Scott Horton discusses Calabresi's dissent -- and notes that the majority decision is based on...

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02 Nov

Maher Arar, a Canadian who was detained by the U.S. and the subject of an "extraordinary rendition" to Syria, has lost his bid to maintain his lawsuit in U.S. courts.  By a 7-4 vote, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, sitting en banc, has voted to dismiss his suit against U.S. government officials for alleged violations of...

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29 Oct

I can't make the swearing-in on account of classes, but I wanted to offer my public congratulations to Lee Feinstein, who is being sworn in tomorrow at DOS as US Ambassador to Poland.  Lee is an old friend, someone who combines first rate brains with outstanding judgment, and he is a great pick to represent the United States to an...

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28 Oct

H/T to Orin Kerr for pointing this out, but this week is national pro bono week.  Being an international law blog, I wanted to invite readers to mention any international or transnational pro bono work they do. Me?  I serve as the board chair of a nonprofit global media assistance organization, the Media Development Loan Fund.  I've served in that capacity...

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27 Oct

[caption id="attachment_10327" align="alignright" width="300" caption="Raquel Rolnik"][/caption] In a further display of the UN Human Rights Council's sense of how to efficiently allocate its limited resources, its "special rapporteur on the right to adequate housing" has decided to conduct her next investigation in the United States, and in New York City in particular.  (h/t the Corner). I'm sure that New York housing...

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