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10 Nov New Naval War College Blue Book on the Changing Nature of War
...Professor Mike Schmitt, Professor Yoram Dinstein, and Dr. Nicholas Rostow among many other key leaders in the field. A copy of volume 87 may be downloaded from the Naval War College website (navigate to www.usnwc.edu and then select the “publications” drop-down menu at the top of the page). Hard copies of recent editions of the Blue Book are also available for sale by the Government Printing Office Bookstore (http://bookstore.gpo.gov/). Subscribers to Lexis (www.lexis.com) and HeinOnline (www.heinonline.org) can search and retrieve the entire series. In addition, HeinOnline will print any volume...
23 Mar TWAIL Pedagogy: Un-Learning Colonial Ways of Teaching International Law
...expose the injustices of international law and honour Third World struggles against them. B- Dialectics Mainstream international law scholars have a curious habit of using Shakespeare to disguise the hypocrisy of international law. For instance, Koskenniemi declares “The lady doth protest too much” as an allegory for those questioning NATO’s illegal bombing of Yugoslavia. To Schill, “Romeo, wherefore art thou Romeo?” captures international investment law’s putative search for a public interest prerogative. These rhetorical spins usually disguise wide-reaching hypocrisy in the application of international law. By asserting fuzzy values such...
15 Aug Norway Murders Freya the Walrus
...euthanize the walrus in the early hours of Sunday local time came after the public ignored repeated warnings to keep their distance from Freya. “I am firm that this was the right call. We have great regard for animal welfare, but human life and safety must take precedence,” the head of Norway’s fisheries directorate, Frank Bakke-Jensen, said in a statement. [snip] Bakke-Jensen said moving the marine mammal was thoroughly considered with the help of experts at the Norwegian Institute of Marine Research. Authorities concluded that the complexity of the operation...24 Mar Weekly News Wrap: Monday, March 24, 2014
Your weekly selection of international law and international relations headlines from around the world: Africa The Pentagon has reported that the Obama administration is sending about 150 Special Operations troops along with military aircraft to Uganda to help in the search for warlord Joseph Kony. Suspected Boko Haram fighters have detonated a bomb in a crowded marketplace in northeastern Nigeria killing at least 20 people. Asia A Chinese court has handed an 18-month jail term to a man who applied to hold a protest on the anniversary of the 1989...03 Mar Joseph Weiler, No Longer in the Dock!
The Tribunal de Grand Instance de Paris has issued its judgment in the unconscionable criminal-libel suit brought by Karine Calvo-Goller against NYU’s Joseph Weiler. Weiler, I am happy to report, prevailed on both of the key issues: lack of jurisdiction and whether the lawsuit had so little merit that Calvo-Goller’s decision to file it was abuse of process. In terms of academic freedom, what the court said about the latter issue is particularly important: “….As regards the choice made by the Complainant to invoke French criminal proceedings, though [Karine Calvo-Goller]...21 Oct “Timely” International Law Publishing
remotely. Applying the term in this strict sense e-books would not offer much more than portability – searching entire collections or other value added functions are not currently available. A different usage has sprung up which refers to “e-book collections”. These are offered by aggregators such as ebrary. They are PDF based, remotely hosted, and replicate a library’s print collection. An alternative model is making books available in publisher-specific databases. OUP launched such a service in 2004 called Oxford Scholarship Online (OSO) which now has over 4200 OUP titles from...01 Apr Oops! Australian Federal Police Lose Alleged War Criminal
Not a funny April Fool’s Day joke, although it sort of sounds like one. Any of our readers in Coffs Harbour, NSW, please check out your window and give the Australian Federal Police a hand. THE Australian Federal Police are continuing to frantically search for an Australian accused of war crimes, after a five-year legal battle ended with the High Court ruling that an arrest warrant for him be reinstated and he be extradited to Croatia. AFP officers this morning were again at Mr Dragan Vasiljkovic’s last known residence in...
23 Dec The Committee on Missing Persons in Cyprus: A Humanitarian or Reconciliation-Promoting Institution?
...focus its efforts on what it was originally designed to do and leave peacebuilding to other, better-suited institutions. The conclusions of this article are based on 34 in-depth interviews conducted with Greek and Turkish Cypriot missing persons’ relatives and key stakeholders, including employees and ex-employees of the CMP and journalists who have been following its work for decades. The research was funded by the International Peace Research Association Foundation. The CMP is a unique institution. It was formed and continues to operate in a frozen conflict context, in which the...30 May Picturing the Gitmo Legislation
...term interests, became simply the occasion for lawyers with but slight experience in and no responsibility for these matters to obtain official endorsement of an exotic legal proposition. Even if the proposition had been correct, which the Supreme Court determined it was not, this abstract exercise would have been a mistake. Of course, it’s important to know what the law is, but it’s even more important to know what it is in your interest to do. When you know that, it is time to ask the lawyers whether it is...01 May Some Preliminary Thoughts on the Bin Laden Operation
...the ground operation. Second, the fact that this took place in Abottabad, Pakistan tells us something about the credibility of the Pakistani government’s repeated claims that Bin Laden was not in Pakistan. Third, Peter Bergen just said on CNN that killing Bin Laden is “The end of the war on terror.” I’m skeptical of this claim and imagine that one year from now we will still be employing armed forces around the world in search of al Qaeda members. I’ll have some more detailed thoughts once the speculation dies down....