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04 May Serves Me Right for Talking About It
...prosecuted. The gap between what clearly constitutes torture based on US and ECHR case law and the interrogation techniques currently authorized by executive order is a large one and can only be closed by people willing to talk about how lines should be drawn. Whether anyone is willing to have that conversation is a different matter. Benjamin Davis This is way too much fun. Just watching The Last Word with Lawrence O'Donnell who says that the former CIA hotshot jose Rodriguez is the person saying that the waterboarding and EIT's...
08 Oct Rethinking International Law After Gaza Symposium: The Palestinian Genocide and the Colonial Core of International Law
[José Manuel Barreto works on decolonizing human rights and international law based on TWAIL and Decolonial Theory. He teaches law at the Javeriana University in Bogotá and will publish ‘Decolonial Theory and the History of Human Rights’ in 2025.] The Palestinian genocide has unveiled the deep colonial structure of the international legal order. The so-called Westphalian system has been inveterately depicted and legally defined in the UN Charter as one of ‘equal’ ‘sovereign’ ‘states.’ Against the black letter of positive international law, the Palestinian Genocide has made evident the material...
17 Mar On Facebook’s Commitment to Human Rights, the Opportunity to Prevent Crimes and the Right for Truth-Seeking and Memory for Murdered Mexican Journalists
...Mexico confirmed José Guadalupe Chan Dzib had received multiple threats in the previous weeks. Rubén Pat Cauich, director and founder of the Facebook-based news outlet, publicly demanded justice and published information regarding the crime in Semanario Playa News Aquí y Ahora. Twenty-six days later, Pat Cauich was also shot to death in a bar. After his colleagues were murdered, Romero Díaz fled Playa del Carmen temporarily with help from a federal program for human rights defenders and reporters whose lives are at risk. He stayed in the neighboring state of...
31 May Balancing the Arguments Before the Inter-American Court on the Climate Emergency and Human Rights Advisory Proceedings
...participation in the consultative procedure before the Court raises both procedural and substantive issues. The first of these concerns the actual conduct of the proceedings in the oral phase. The Court seems aware of this problem and, in a presidential Order of February 22, 2024, divided the hearings into three different locations (Bridgetown, Brasilia and Manaus), consolidating its practice of holding activities also outside of San José. The oral hearings also saw a high level of participation and intense questioning by the Court of all participants. The question remains of...04 Apr Alvarez ASIL Speech Now On-Line
Jose Alvarez’s ASIL presidential address is now up on the Society’s website here, along with the companion 50 Ways IL Harms Us. I’d missed that the “smug levels” observation was part of a South Park allusion (see page 5), which may have sent some members running to their teenage grandchildren for guidance (though I have to admit that coming from a cable-less household, I was a little wobbly on it myself). Justifying the handout, Jose explained: [t]hose of us at this meeting probably can benefit most from the 50 Ways....18 Jul ASIL Presidents Ask Congress to Step in to Resolve ICJ Medellin Stand Off
Past and current presidents of the American Society of International Law today urged leaders in Congress to take legislative action to comply with the ICJ decision in Avena and halt the executions of Jose Medellin and the other affected death row inmates until the review required by the ICJ has been carried out. Full text of the letter is here. So, readers, is Peter Spiro right in predicting that Jose Medellin will live out his days in prison (but also wrong in predicting that it won’t be because of congressional action)?...20 Sep Human Rights Watch Detained and Thrown Out of Venezuela
The New York Times and Washington Post (and lots of other places) report today (Saturday, September 20, 2008) that the two senior executives of the Human Rights Watch Americas Division, executive director Jose Miguel Vivanco and deputy director Daniel Wilkinson, were detained by Venezuelan security personnel in Caracas and placed on a plane to Brazil. From the NYT: Armed men in uniforms apprehended José Miguel Vivanco, a Chilean citizen who is the Americas director for the New York-based group, and Daniel Wilkinson, an American who is deputy director for the...02 Jan Spain’s Sunken Warships and the Underwater Heritage of Latin America
...regards to their archaeological exploration. After the Odyssey case, in 2013, Colombia issued Law 1675, claiming ownership over all sunk archaeological items off is coasts, including (quite purposefully) sunk Spanish galleons. Soon after, in 2015, Colombia found and claimed ownership over the San Jose, a Spanish galleon sunk in 1708, “in Colombian waters”, off the port of Cartagena. Spain has already objected Colombia’s ownership claim and has insisted on negotiations. Both states’ positions however seem incompatible. Colombia wishes to salvage the San Jose’s treasure for archaeological research and exhibition, whereas...24 Apr Why Training Journalists in International Law is a Good Thing
The American Society of International Law has recently begun partnering with journalism schools in an effort to introduce international law to future reporters and editorial boards. And, publications like ASIL Insightsand IL.Post are circulated broadly among media outlets, and ASIL makes the expertise of its membership available when issues or cases arise in which explanations of the law can be helpful. But, as Jose Alvarez noted in this interview with the State Department Information Service, we still have a way to go. This recent editorial about Medellin v. Texas in...