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21 Sep Weekend Roundup: September 14-20, 2013

...is trying to enter the United States for the upcoming UN General Assembly meetings, despite the arrest warrant for him from the ICC. Kevin also weighed in here on that subject, and Kristen argued that travel sanctions should be used against Bashir. Kevin also pointed out the erroneous Al-Jazeera news report from Thursday that reported Saif al-Islam Gaddafi would appear in Tripoli, and pointed out that he appeared in Zintan instead (with his trial being adjourned until December in order to allow other defendants to be present). Kevin additionally discussed...

21 Apr Weekend Roundup: April 14-20, 2012

...news report about a possible deal between Libya and the ICC to try Saif Gaddafi in Libya. Ken Anderson tried to apply to Coase Theorem to the Sudan-South Sudan conflict. Peter Spiro built on last week’s post in another post about the end of “-isms” in International Relations theory, recommending a recent article in AJIL. If you’re looking for further weekend reading, Roger Alford recommended Dean Berman’s new book on Global Legal Pluralism. Deborah Pearlstein posted about Michigan Law Review’s latest Annual Survey of books in the law, featuring her...

09 Feb Weekend Roundup: February 1-8, 2013

This week on Opinio Juris, Duncan started us off by discussing privileges and immunities for diplomats and posed the question of what the public should know in cases like DWIs. His next post offered a discussion of the Native American mutual defense treaty involving the Tar Sands Projects. Kevin weighed in this week on affairs at the ICC, including this post outlining Libya’s contempt for the Office of Public Counsel for the Defense in the Saif Gaddafi case, and on a related note, with respect to the Al-Senussi case, he...

12 May Weekly News Wrap: Monday, May 12, 2014

...A drone strike in eastern Yemen has killed at least five people in the first such raid since the army launched an offensive against al-Qaeda-linked fighters last month. At least 40 people have died and 51 have been rescued after a boat carrying migrants sank off Libya’s coast. Libya’s interim interior minister has warned that Tripoli could “facilitate” the passage of those people seeking to get to Europe illegally unless the European Union (EU) helps it combat the problem. Saif al-Islam Gaddafi has appeared via videolink at a court in...

28 Aug Weekday News Wrap: Wednesday, August 28, 2013

...motivation, fearing that the US would use intervention in Syria to target them as well. Foreign Policy has a piece about the limits of acting in Syria for the US, citing limited options, limited interests and limited reasons for getting involved Muammar Gaddafi’s son Saif al-Islam and spy chief Abdullah el-Senussi will stand trial in Libya beginning September 19th, according to the Prosecutor General. Two attacks by suspected Boko Haram fighters have killed 24 people in Nigeria’s northeast in the latest violence believed to be in revenge against vigilantes. Iran...

18 Jan Weekday News Wrap: Friday, January 18, 2013

Saif al-Islam Gaddafi has appeared in a court for the first time since his capture last year, in the western town of Zintan, where he is facing charges related to a visit by an ICC lawyer last year. Jurist has more here. US and ECOWAS troops will support France’s mission in Mali. Armed Groups in International Law has an insightful post on the French intervention in Mali and Additional Protocol II. African Union peacekeepers trying to dislodge Islamist rebels from Somalia’s Lower Shabelle region shot dead at least seven civilians...

11 Jun Weekday News Wrap: Monday, June 11, 2012

A four-member delegation from the ICC in Libya, who went to meet with Saif al-Islam Gaddafi, has been detained by Libyan authorities after one of the lawyers, Melinda Taylor, was found allegedly carrying suspicious documents. Syrian government forces renewed their attacks on Homs, killing at least 35. Protesters in Chile rallied against a documentary honoring Augusto Pinochet. The world’s newest country, South Sudan, struggles to open embassies, with only about a dozen open to this point. After a blast that killed women and children over the weekend, NATO has vowed...

13 Apr Weekday News Wrap: Friday, April 13, 2012

...Office of Public Counsel for the Defense, has asked the court to report Libya to the U.N. Security Council over its failure to extradite Saif al-Islam Gaddafi to The Hague. ECOWAS has condemned what it called an attempted coup in Guinea-Bissau after reports emerged of soldiers taking control of a central area of the country’s capital ahead of a planned runoff election, slated for April 29th. Mali’s new President has vowed total war against the Tuareg rebels in the north. At the Summit of Americas, taking place this weekend in...

05 May Weekend Roundup: April 28 – May 4, 2012

...three first impressions from a recent conference at the US Naval Academy on the Ethics of Military Cyber Operations. Further on novel military operations, Ken Anderson posted a summary of his recent article, co-authored with Matthew Waxman, on the Law and Ethics for Robot Soldiers. Kevin Heller welcomed Communis Hostis Omnium, a blog on maritime piracy, to the blogosphere. He posted on Benjamin Netanyahu’s terrible week and analysed Libya’s challenge of the admissibility of the ICC cases against Gaddafi and Al-Senussi. He then addressed the question, raised in the comments...

22 Aug To Televise or Not to Televise (the Mubarak Trial)

While the world waits to learn the fate of embattled Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi, the trial of another former Mid East Leader, President Hosni Mubarak of Egypt, is currently underway. In terms of international interest, Mubarak may be no Gaddafi. But since the Mubarak trial concerns the former President of a strategicly important country charged with ordering the killing of unarmed protesters challenging his rule, it has the potential to rank with some of the most important world trials of all time — Goering, Eichmann, Ceausescu, Milosevic, Saddam. On the...