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27 Dec Access to Freshwater and Accountability Issues in the Israel-Hamas Armed Conflict
conflict classification and determining the applicable rules. Many answers depend on whether Hamas is considered part of the state of Palestine and whether Gaza is considered an occupied territory. In this regard the most controversial issue in this regard is whether Gaza is an occupied territory. After Israel withdrew its troops from Gaza in 2005, there have been debates on whether Israel still qualifies as an occupying power under IHL. Such a determination significantly affects the applicable law to the situation in Gaza, including freshwater resources. Legal scholars, court decisions,...17 Mar Germany Sends CIA Arrest Warrants to Interpol
...13 CIA agents at the end of January for complicity in his kidnapping and subsequent torture, high-ranking US diplomats sought to convince the German government not to expand the search for the perpetrators internationally, German government sources have told DER SPIEGEL. Following the Jan. 31, 2007 issuing of the arrest warrants, US diplomats spoke with foreign policy advisors of German Chancellor Angela Merkel to express Washington’s displeasure that the case was being forwarded to Interpol, the international police organization that facilitates policing cooperation among 186 member countries — including the...24 Feb The Reprieve Drone Strike Communication I — Jurisdiction
...committed, making it impossible for the Court to prosecute the NATO personnel for being complicit in those crimes. No jurisdiction over primary liabiilty, no jurisdiction over secondary liability. It’s that simple. So does the subjective territoriality argument work? I’m not so sure, because the argument depends on two interrelated assumptions that are anything but self-evident. The first, of course, is that Art. 12(2)(a) of the Rome Statute adopts both subjective and objective territorial jurisdiction. Here is what the communication says (paras. 12-13): Further, the terms of the Statute itself support...18 Apr In Praise of the Bluebook
...bad. Yeah, I groan when I see a page that contains two lines of text and 30 lines of footnotes. But it’s still better than having to mark my place in an article, find the bibliography, and scan an endless list of references listed in 9-pt. font. 3. Citing articles as 2000a, 2000b, and 2000c is ridiculous. Do I really need to waste my time (1) finding the right group of authors in the long list — is it Finkel? Finkel and Groscup? Finkel et al.? — and (2) searching...
17 Sep Transitional Justice Symposium: Building upon Ruti Teitel’s Seminal Work–Towards a Transitional Justice Narrative
[Valeria Vegh Weis is a Post-Doctoral Fellow at the Freie Universität Berlin an Associate Researcher at the Max Planck Institute for European Legal History and a Professor of Criminology at Buenos Aires University .] Introduction Re-reading Ruti Teitel’s Transitional Justice makes for an even more moving experience than expected. The book, written nearly 20 years ago, set the basis for a ground-breaking field of study, bringing to light important legal, political, and ethical dilemmas such as truth versus justice and reparations for victims versus structural inequality, and even suggesting possible ways...