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15 Jun

...should be no US interest in furthering impunity. Problem 3:  The claim that it is in US interests to implement sanctions against Court staff The Order imposes potential sanctions freezing “all property and interests in property that are in the US” of “foreign persons” who “directly engaged in any effort by the ICC to investigate, arrest, detain, or prosecute any US personnel” or nationals of “an ally of the United States” without the consent of that country.  (Section 1, (a)(i)(A)-(B).)  (Given past US Government statements and recent reporting, the “ally”...
15.06.20 | |

12 Feb

...as “why widespread protest against forged elections in Venezuela, Syria and many other countries around the world have not succeeded”? They implicitly suggest that some nations are not brave enough to pay the price for freedom. Some policy-makers also address the issue by referring to inadequacy of internal or international pressures on a nation. In this regard, the tough economic sanctions imposed on states like Iran, North Korea, and Venezuela is essentially based on an optimistic premise that sanctions would make life harder for the people and eventually lead them...
12.02.20 | |

03 Sep

in agreement that it’s “too early to impose sanctions on Iran.” AFP reports that Kofi Annan, meanwhile, has arrived in Iran to let the Iranians know that notwithstanding the clear language of resolution 1696, the UN Secretary General opposes sanctions and believes “patience is more effective.” Sadly, the Security Council’s inaction was rather predictable. Some days ago, the United States already began maneuvering to create an ad hoc coalition of countries that will impose economic sanctions on Iran. However, it’s difficult to believe these efforts will meet substantial success. Iran...
03.09.06 | |

24 Nov

...would undertake the following voluntary measures: Pause efforts to further reduce Iran’s crude oil sales, enabling Iran’s current customers to purchase their current average amounts of crude oil. Enable the repatriation of an agreed amount of revenue held abroad. For such oil sales, suspend the EU and U.S. sanctions on associated insurance and transportation services. Suspend U.S. and EU sanctions on: Iran’s petrochemical exports, as well as sanctions on associated services.5 Gold and precious metals, as well as sanctions on associated services. · Suspend U.S. sanctions on Iran’s auto industry,...
24.11.13 | |

11 Sep

...court judge and law professor Winfried Hassemer: our response to deviation in society must be a humane one, so that the state’s manner of interacting with its citizens will stand as a beacon for citizens’ interactions among themselves and encourage humane public discourse. At any rate, demanding tougher sanctions does not answer the question of enforcement of those sanctions. The threat of a sanction alone is not enough; what is needed are officials who register infringements and pass them on to the competent authorities, who then punish them. It is...
11.09.20 | |

03 Oct

...against US companies. Even in purely universal jurisdiction cases, the Court should respect exceptions to exhaustion recognized by international law. An exhaustion requirement seems likely. In the Kiobel oral argument on the extraterritorial reach of the ATS, three Justices likely to support extraterritorial reach — Ginsburg, Kagan and Sotomayor — asked questions sympathetic to an exhaustion requirement (Tss. at 8, 13-15). In response, Paul Hoffman, plaintiffs’ counsel, appeared open to an exhaustion requirement (Tss. at 13-14). No Justice or counsel spoke against an exhaustion requirement; even two Justices generally hostile...
03.10.12 | |

28 Jan

stark contrast to a flexible cadre of state choice-of-law methodologies that liberally apply state law whenever the forum has any interest in the dispute. The result is a counterintuitive disparity: state law enjoys potentially greater extraterritorial reach than federal law. The disparity is counterintuitive because the federal government, not the states, is generally considered the primary actor in foreign affairs. Indeed, the presumption against extraterritoriality springs directly from foreign affairs concerns: its main purpose is to avoid unintended discord with other nations that might result from extraterritorial applications of U.S....
28.01.14 | |

04 Oct

...analysis. 1) It is legal and consistent with U.S. domestic law for a U.S. court to issue contempt sanctions against a foreign sovereign. The most recent authority for this proposition is the quite recent 2011 opinion from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit, F.G. Hemisphere Associates v. Congo. In that case, the D.C. Circuit rejected the argument by Congo (and the U.S. Government) that contempt sanctions due to Congo’s refusal to comply with discovery orders would violate the FSIA. Following the U.S. Court of Appeals for the...
04.10.14 | |

29 Jul

Marko Milanovic Prof. Raustiala, If I may interject into the discussion with two brief comments: First, have you considered in your book the parallels between the questions surrounding the extraterritorial application of the US Constitution, and the Bill of Rights specifically, and those surrounding the extraterritorial application of human rights treaties, e.g. the ECHR. Though the case law on the latter is itself quite convoluted and contradictory, and some basic concepts are contested, there is still a trend there towards applying HR treaties in extraterritorial situations, particularly when a state...
29.07.09 | |

01 Dec

of military action. There are three types of sanctions, namely, Diplomatic sanctions- the reduction or removal of diplomatics ties. Economic sanctions- the ban on trade. Military sanctions- military intervention. The question is, which one of these, might the security council have implored had France not in its wisdom vetoed the resolution? Well known United Nations sanctions includes but not limited to the UN sanctions against Iraq (1990- 2003), UN sanction against South Africa in protest against the apartheid regime (1961). Such were, and still is, the importance and gravity of...
01.12.09 | |

03 Mar

...national security, including not allowing Iran to pursue nuclear-related military activities” (according the website of the bill’s sponsor, Senator Bob Corker). Here’s the key provision: the bill would suspend for 60 days the President’s ability to waive or lift any sanctions on Iran. Congress would have a chance to permanently suspend his power to waive or lift sanctions via a joint resolution of both houses of Congress. But if Congress does not act at all, or simply approves the agreement, the President can go forward and lift whatever sanctions he...
03.03.15 | |

28 Jul

...ability (and incentive) to evade constitutional strictures simply by choosing the location of detention. This, of course, was Hugo Black’s prescient concern in his dissent in Johnson v. Eisentrager, the 1950 case that was relied upon so heavily by the Bush Administration in the years after 9/11. Let me also briefly note Bill Dodge’s argument about the rise of effects-based extraterritoriality. The presence of foreign assets in the US is definitely a key factor in the success of this approach, and that presence is in turn a function of the...
28.07.09 | |