I had the good fortune to be invited to lecture to Jack Goldsmith's class on Cyberwar and Cybercrime at Harvard Law School last week to discuss my arguments for why we need new international law rules for cyberconflicts. While there, a student flagged for me a new journal--the Harvard National Security Journal--that's literally and figuratively coming on-line right now. Here's how their web-page...
Charli Carpenter has an interesting short commentary over at RFE/RFL discussing the recently released fact-finding report on the Georgia-Russia war. I have not had a chance to read the report, so I won't comment myself (I said something about my experiences as a human rights monitor of the early 1990s phase of the civil war, and then followed up with...
I don't usually plug products on the blog, but I'm going to make an exception for the Ectaco C-Pen 20, the pen scanner that I've been using to organize the research for my book on the Nuremberg Military Tribunals: I don't know how others work, but I write a very detailed outline of an article and then cut-and-paste all...
I've posted lots here about targeted killing, and written about it for publication, as well. I'll be on NPR's All Things Considered today, in a story by correspondent Ari Shapiro, talking about targeted killings in relation to detention and interrogation. (Now that I've seen the story, I see with pleasure that it also quotes Matthew Waxman, Vijay Padmanabhan, John Bellinger,...
Anne Bayefsky of the Hudson Institute suggests that the U.S. is endorsing a less than robust view of the right to free expression in a recent Human Rights Council resolution sponsored by the U.S. (along with Egypt). The resolution does appear to give an unusual amount of lip service to the combatting racism and discrimination (given its topic), but it...
Are the two breakaway sections of Georgia (South Ossetia & Abhkazia) states? If not, why is Kosovo a state? The difficulty international lawyers have in answering these questions suggests that the most basic and fundamental questions of international law remain unresolved and deeply contested. What are the requirements for statehood? There are some generally accepted criteria, under international law, but they...
With the Supreme Court term now underway, here is a summary of the most important cases that relate to international law. A few of the cases address fairly technical issues of statutory and treaty interpretation, while others have the potential to be quite significant for our discipline. I have organized the cases according to my sense of most...
The following was sent to us by the American Branch of the International Law Association: The American Branch of the International Law Association will hold its annual International Law Weekend, in conjunction with its 88th Annual Meeting, in New York from October 22-24, 2009. Registration is free for students, members of the American Branch, and cosponsoring organizations (including the ABA Section...
Here's a follow-up to Julian's question about the World Bank - what's the future role of the IMF? Interesting news story in the WSJ over the weekend on whether the IMF might become, as its chief would like, a quasi-central bank to the world - or instead, as the article suggests is the tenor of the G 20 meetings, a...
Via Instapundit, I notice that the World Bank is facing capital shortfalls that could put out of "business" in twelve months. “By the middle of next year we will face serious constraints,” said its president Robert Zoellick, as he launched a major campaign to persuade rich nations to pour more money into the Washington-based institution. He conceded that such a task was...
In the inaugural issue of the Yale Law Journal Online, the new online companion to the Yale Law Journal, Peggy McGuinness, Peter Spiro, Robert Ahdieh and I respond to Professor Michael Stokes Paulsen's recent article: "The Constitutional Power to Interpret International Law." All of us are critical, although in different ways. I am the most sympathetic to Paulsen, but...
Cross-Posted at Balkinization I feel as though I should start by apologizing from my mini-blogging hiatus. Nothing like prepping a new course to distract one from the trials of law outside the classroom. Thanks to my Opinio Juris colleagues Julian Ku and Ken Anderson, as well as Ben Wittes, among others, there’s ample reason for re-engaging. As Julian and Ken have...
