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02 Jul Problems at the ECCC
Robert Petit, the International Co-Prosecutor, is resigning effective September 1: In a statement, Robert Petit said he would be stepping down as of 1 September for personal and family reasons. “It has been the greatest privilege of my career to have the opportunity to bring some justice to the victims of the crimes of the Khmer Rouge,” he said. “I remain convinced that Cambodia’s hopes for a better future lie, in part, on true accountability for crimes.” Mr. Petit said that the search for his successor will likely wrap up...20 Mar “In a World Where Arms Merchant Videos are Bad, They Dared to Make the Worst…”
Pardon the title of this post being a somewhat-obscure allusion to the standard trope of movie-trailer voice-overs, but over at Danger Room, they are well under way in their Iron Eagles search: their “celebration of the most awesomely-bad videos of the military industrial complex.” Videos that often mix bad animation, worse narration, explosions, and weaponry statistics. But, for my money, they have found a video that may be impossible to top. Here’s their description: Let’s say you’re a defense-company marketing executive. And you want to make a splash at the...
31 Oct Third Annual Symposium on Pop Culture and International Law: This Sea Belongs to Me, Take Your Boat Elsewhere- Nationalism, Samba and the Law of the Sea
...stating that “it was clear that Brazil had sambaed away with the talks”, as the result of the negotiations was an agreement in which the US did not recognize Brazilian sovereignty over 200nm but accepted that “American-owned ships” would be subject to Brazilian fishing regulations, and also recognized “Brazil’s right to board, search and seize shrimp boats that have committed infractions”. The Time piece did not clearly state that Nogueira’s song had influenced these negotiations (which Brazilian newspaper Jornal do Brasil later did). Nevertheless, the military dictatorship possibly benefited from...20 Mar Google Rankings of the Most-Cited International Law Journals
...the Harvard International Law Journal nor the Yale Journal of International Law is in the Google Scholar database. But at least for those journals that are in the database, it gives one a good sense of the relative influence of each journal. If you are trying to compare the rankings of each journal where your article has been accepted, you can type the name of the journal into the Google Scholar search engine to get the h-index for that journal. The higher the h-index score, the more cited the journal....07 Jan Whose Alleged Settlement is Bigger?
...one can conservatively estimate an increase equivalent 16% of the territory’s population a decade ago. More anecdotally, a quick Google search reveals news accounts that suggest non-trivial mainland influx in the past decade, and more importantly, it appears this period saw the significant out-flow of the previous locals. Moreover, some portion of both populations are the children born to those who have allegedly been “transferred.” Israel has a higher fertility rate than N.Cyprus as a whole, and the Jewish civilian population across the Green Line is higher than the Israeli...
05 Nov Justice Under Pressure: Strategic Litigation of Judicial Independence in Europe
...to protect the courts, but also determination and creative resort to legal tools and strategies, which have led to a rich body of experience and jurisprudence upon which others can draw. This blog highlights some of the key features of burgeoning practice in this field. It illustrates the diverse forms national and international litigation has taken, and the array of direct and indirect threats to judicial independence it exposes and seeks to address. Challenges arising recurrently when litigating on this issue are noted, alongside some strategic approaches employed in response....
02 Sep We Need to Talk About Genocide
[Guy S Goodwin-Gill is Emeritus Fellow, All Souls College, Oxford and Honorary Professor, Faculty of Law & Justice, UNSW Sydney] Few if any of us will ever meet Benjamin Netanyahu, Bezalel Smotrich, Itamar Ben-Gvir, or others of that ilk who have organised the aberrant architecture of genocide and encouraged the climate of death, maiming, starvation and destruction that is Gaza today. No independent inquiries look into the daily killing of countless children and other Palestinians as they search for food. All we ever get from the Israel Defense Forces are weasel...