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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...
06 May Killer Robots, Illusionists in Forming the Future ICL
...select, search for, detect, identify, track and attack, use force against, neutralize, damage or destroy targets without human intervention.” Sharkey suggests 5 categories to delineate the autonomy of such weapons: “1. human engages with and selects targets and initiates any attack; 2. Program suggests alternative targets and human chooses which to attack; 3. Program selects target and human must approve before attack; 4. Program selects target and human has restricted time to vet; and 5. Program selects target and initiates attack without human involvement”. This category is useful to determine...06 May Deeks on Self-Defense and Pakistani Sovereignty
...have been able to stage an effective mission against the compound, or that the United States at least should have constructed the mission as a joint operation, given that the two countries work closely together in other intelligence and military contexts. It also could point to the fact that it conducted searches for al Qaeda leaders in Abbottabad in 2003 and in subsequent years, and that it passed on information about the 2003 search to U.S. officials. On balance, however, Pakistan’s defense of its sovereignty in this case, while understandable...10 Dec Rice’s Strategic Vision – A Democratic Peace, But What About International Law?
Secretary Rice continues her PR offensive. This time, her target audience is U.S. readers of the Washington Post’s Sunday Outlook section and her topic is not torture, but a restatement of the Bush Administration’s main strategic goals in foreign policy as the search for a Kantian(?) “democratic peace.” None of this is new exactly, but it is interesting nonetheless. Here’s a key graf: Our experience of this new world leads us to conclude that the fundamental character of regimes matters more today than the international distribution of power. Insisting otherwise...14 Dec Events and Announcements: December 14, 2014
of 14 different themes More than 350 case studies covering past and contemporary armed conflicts More than 20 model IHL courses and pedagogical resources for IHL lecturers More than 300 terms and notions referenced in the online index “A to Z” Full online navigation between theory and practice through internal links and search engine Last week’s events and announcements can be found here. If you would like to post an announcement on Opinio Juris, please contact us with a one-paragraph description of your announcement along with hyperlinks to more information....17 Jan OUP Law Yearbooks Available Online
Oxford University Press has asked me to post the following announcement: Law Yearbooks from Oxford – Free Online Access until February 28th Since the start of January 2011 the law yearbooks from Oxford University Press, previously available only in print, have become available online as well. This includes all volumes since 1996 but not the most recent ones which only published in December 2010. To launch this initiative we are making all of this content freely available until the end of February 2011. To view, browse, download and search the...15 Aug The Revised Draft of a Treaty on Business and Human Rights: A Big Leap Forward
...corporate accountability has been a key demand by several States delegates and civil society observers, and is essential to enable individuals and groups of victims of abuse to pursue strategies in search of justice and redress. Prevention The wording of current Article 5 also presents a huge improvement. While preserving most of the “zero draft” content, it more clearly adopts the definitions of businesses’ human rights due diligence established in the UNGP: identification, prevention and mitigation, monitoring and communicating. One step seems missing: the obligation of integration of the assessment...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...31 Aug Visiting International Law Professor Position at JHU Nanjing University Center
Ruth Wedgwood of Johns Hopkins SAIS asked if I would post this job announcement flyer for a visiting professor in international law at JHU Nanjing University Center in China. Ruth adds that the salary offered might not be what DC law schools normally pay but might work well with a sabbatical or grant arrangements, also that the position has not before gone to anyone but Americans, and finally that the search committee includes lawyers and non-lawyers, consistent with SAIS’s approach. Anyway, if interested, contact JHU per below the fold. The...
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...