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20 Sep Q & A with Facebook on Myanmar
...and disclosures, we don’t make evidentiary assessments for any legal proceedings. Rather, we respond to requests for data consistent with our terms and applicable law. Our disclosure to the IIMM will be consistent with this framework. Once relevant content has been identified, what information is Facebook preserving and how is it being preserved, to ensure it meets the requirements to be produced as evidence in legal proceedings? Given the volume of data at hand, what challenges does Facebook foresee will emerge in the preservation process? We preserve accounts in accordance...19 Apr Kony 2012: The Social, the Media, and the Activism: Kony Meets World
[Beth Karlin is the Program Director of the Transformational Media Lab within the Center for Unconventional Security Affairs (CUSA) as well as a Research Associate at the California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology (Calit2) and a doctoral student in the School of Social Ecology at University of California, Irvine. Her research focuses on the potential and application of new media and technologies for civic engagement and social change.] Many new trends in technology and communication are changing the landscape of civic engagement and activism. Social justice campaigns are utilizing...16 Sep Scottish Independence Insta-Symposium: ‘Negotiated Independence’–Scottish Independence and a New Path to Statehood?
...Quebec, [1998] 2 S.C.R. 217, para 83.). But all the same, the label secession doesn’t seem to fit very well. We tend to think of secession as a unilateral act, denounced as illegal by the remainder state. It is notable that in light of the Edinburgh Agreement, Crawford and Boyle seem to characterize the process almost as a sui generis situation, what they term ‘negotiated independence’. Certainly the consensual negotiation process which would likely follow a Yes vote would surely have a significant bearing in how Scotland would be treated...29 Nov Weekday News Wrap: Thursday, November 29, 2012
The UNGA is expected to recognize Palestine as a “non-member” state during a vote today. Following massive protests earlier this week in Cairo, the Assembly drafting the new Egyptian Constitution has vowed to publish, and vote on, a draft today. The US is considering options to intervene more strongly in the Syrian conflict, while the EU has renewed its sanctions for another three months leaving the door open for a closer involvement after March 1. China will give police in its Southern Hainan province broader powers to board and search...28 Sep Online Workshop Response: The Last Word
...did not address the modern position versus revisionist debate. A court’s approach to resolving the issue presented is a part of its holding just as the ultimate resolution of the issue is. And the approach the Sosa Court took in determining the import of the ATS is inconsistent with the modern position. Among other things, the Court’s pervasive search for and adherence to congressional intent would have been unnecessary if the modern position were correct, as would the Court’s efforts to conform to narrow, post-Erie notions of federal common law...
02 Jun The Oxford Statement on International Law Protections in Cyberspace: The Regulation of Information Operations and Activities
Beasley Professor of Law, Temple University Beasley School of Law François Delerue, Research Fellow in Cyberdefense and International Law at IRSEM & Lecturer at Sciences Po, France Diane Desierto, Professor of Law and Global Affairs, LLM Faculty Director, Notre Dame Law School and Keough School of Global Affairs Talita Dias, Shaw Foundation Junior Research Fellow, Jesus College, Oxford; Postdoctoral Research Fellow, ELAC, University of Oxford Jessica Dorsey, Assistant Professor of International and European Law, Utrecht University School of Law, The Netherlands; Associate Fellow, International Center for Counterterrorism–The Hague Dr. Pavan...10 Apr LJIL Symposium: The Idea of Justice in International Criminal Law
...domestic legal systems should not be seen as idealized systems and that liberal inquiry must be based on ‘deeper principles’ of criminal law as it ought to be. I emphatically agree, and this is an important point to highlight. I argue in my article that the aim of the liberal critique is not the replication of articulations of principles from national systems, but rather upholding the underlying commitment not to treat individuals unjustly. In Jens’ terms, it’s a search for deeper principles. Indeed, I would say that our endeavor is...19 Dec Will Thailand protect Hakeem Al-Araibi?
...Thailand’s Universal Periodic Review, his return “reportedly succeeded after the individual was sedated and beaten, allegedly by the police authorities of the country of origin who had come to Thailand in search of the individual.” His family reported to Amnesty International that he had been tortured after arriving back in Bahrain. The brutal treatment of Mr. Haroon was a clear violation of Thailand’s obligation of non-refoulement under international law, as would be the removal of Mr. Al-Araibi. In contrast to the Haroon case, news reports indicate that extradition proceedings will...24 Jan Covington and Burling and the Cote d’Ivoire
...But such arrangements can prove uncomfortable if the clients become the focus of international controversy. Last week, for example, the Washington Media Group announced that it had severed ties with the collapsing regime in Tunisia amid reports of human rights abuses. The process of Foreign Agent registration (i.e., becoming a lobbyist for foreign interests) is quite transparent. You can search the DoJ database here. Many of the registrants are lawyers, but a surprising number of names associated with some of the larger law and lobbying firms are former U.S. diplomats....19 Sep John Yoo’s Defense of the NSA Program, Part II
...sending a steady stream of telephone numbers, e-mail addresses and names to the F.B.I. in search of terrorists. The stream soon became a flood, requiring hundreds of agents to check out thousands of tips a month. But virtually all of them, current and former officials say, led to dead ends or innocent Americans. F.B.I. officials repeatedly complained to the spy agency that the unfiltered information was swamping investigators. The spy agency was collecting much of the data by eavesdropping on some Americans’ international communications and conducting computer searches of phone...