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17 Aug Weekday News Wrap: Friday, August 17, 2012
...rejected outright a proposal from Japan to take the dispute about the Dokdo Islands to the International Court of Justice. The Japanese government may review a bilateral currency swap agreement with South Korea. In its territorial dispute with China, Japan has deported 14 Chinese activists that had sailed to the Senkaku/Diaoyu islands. Justice in Conflict has an insightful post about Libya and the ICC regarding the stalemate over Saif and Senussi. An Australian court has decided that a 90-year-old alleged Nazi war criminal cannot be extradited to Hungary. China’s President...12 May Weekend Roundup: May 5-11, 2012
...from the Saif case and posted about a new law passed by Libya’s National Transitional Council (NTC) granting blanket amnesty to pro-revolution rebels. The (aspiring) Law Professors or Law PhDs/JSDs amongst our readers will undoubtedly be interested in Kevin’s post on Doctors, Professors and (North) American exceptionalism. The ongoing tensions around the Scarborough Shoal in the South China Sea were often featured in this week’s news wraps. Julian Ku analysed what the US’ reaffirmation of its 1951 Mutual Defense Treaty with the Philippines entails. He argued that the treaty’s obligations...29 Mar Weekend Roundup: March 22-28, 2014
This week on Opinio Juris, Kevin accused the ICC of fiddling while Libya burns, and relayed news in the Libyan press that Al-Senussi’s and Gaddafi’s trial will start mid-April. He also analysed whether Luis Moreno-Ocampo’s possible representation of LRA victims at the ICC would amount to a conflict of interest. Roger followed up on his earlier post about using trade remedies to enforce arbitration awards to argue that these remedies are WTO compliant. Kristen discussed sanctions against Russia and Julian asked whether the US’ spying on Huawei violates international law....
22 Sep Symposium on Protest and Legal Mobilization: From the Rule of Law to the “Rude of Law”- Protesting in a World of Shrinking Freedoms
...In Egypt, the occupation of Tahrir Square led to the fall of Hosni Mubarak, while in Libya, civil war ended in the capture and assassination of Muammar Gaddafi. Not long after, protests spread far beyond the Arab world. In Kyiv, thousands filled Maidan Square to oppose President Viktor Yanukovych’s decision to suspend an EU Association Agreement in favour of closer ties with Russia, triggering the pro-European Euromaidan movement. In the West, discontent took other forms. The Occupy Wall Street movement denounced growing inequality, corporate influence, and political unaccountability in the...19 Feb Guest Post: Bartels–Temporal Scope of Application of IHL: When do Non-International Armed Conflicts End? Part 2
...on after – or perhaps result from – the disappearance of the organisational structure of one or more of the fighting parties. Take, for example, the situation in Libya in the period after the defeat of the Gaddafi regime and the forming of the new government by the rebels. My submission that NIACs end when the level of violence and/or organisation drops below a certain lower threshold, has consequences for the application of IHL and consequently for the protection afforded by IHL. It may be feared that it would lead...08 Feb Weekday News Wrap: Friday, February 8, 2013
Syrian troops are battling rebels around Damascus, trying to halt their advance on the capital. The ICC has demanded the extradition of Libya’s Abdullah al-Senussi to The Hague to face charges of crimes against humanity under Gaddafi’s regime. A UN survey has found that more than $3.9 billion was paid out in bribes in Afghanistan in 2012, amounting to more than double the nation’s domestic revenue. President Obama’s nominee for the director of the CIA, John Brennan, was questioned heavily yesterday during Senate confirmation hearings about drones and torture. As...
24 Apr Symposium: The Responsibility to Protect in Libya and Syria–Reflections
...there was room to discuss rebuilding in the Libyan context through the prism of R2P’s Pillar 2, namely, through providing assistance and capacity-building to post-Gaddafi Libya to ensure safeguarding from the resurgence of mass atrocity crimes. Reflecting more globally, Peake draws attention to an emerging trend on the international scene that seemingly counteracts the post-Charter move towards multilateralism that I describe in the book, namely, ‘shrinking multilateralism and the mounting nationalism’. Peake is spot on that emerging nationalist rhetoric threatens to unravel decades of work in which community interests such...
02 Sep Symposium on Myanmar and International Indifference: A Deeper Dive Into International Criminal Liability for Internet Shutdowns – The Case of Myanmar (Part 2)
...Statute, “so long as contribution had been agreed upon by the relevant group acting with a common purpose and the suspect prior to the perpetration of the crime.” Hence, liability could also accrue to those who agreed to the cover-up of crimes before they were committed. The possibility of communications cuts as a mode of cover-up is explicitly considered in Gaddafi, and this line of reasoning is likely relevant in the case of Myanmar as well. Courts have made clear that liability under section 25(3)(d) of the Rome Statute does...