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07 Oct Interpretation isn’t just Meaning! The Existential Function of Interpretation in International Law
Looking back at all the debates over whether the United States could have legal authority to use force in Syria, I was struck by the presence of two very different types of arguments about the Responsibility to Protect (R2P). For some, the R2P questions were interpretative in nature — what did R2P mean (i.e., does it require Security Council authorization) and how does its meaning apply in the Syrian context? Obviously, different interpretative methods and techniques could generate different answers to what R2P meant, and, with them, different outcomes for...10 Aug Weekday News Wrap: Friday, August 10, 2012
The UK has appointed a senior judge to lead the inquest in the death of Russian ex-spy Litvinenko from polonium poising in 2006 in London. Veteran international diplomat, Lakhdar Brahimi, has been tapped as Kofi Annan’s successor as UN-Arab League joint special envoy for Syria. In the Syrian conflict, government troops have forced rebels from a key district in the city of Aleppo. In response to the PILPG memo featured in our Weekday News Wrap on Wednesday, the New International Law Blog offers an analysis posing the question: Would intervention...11 May Weekly News Wrap: Monday, May 11, 2015
...allies have conducted 15 air strikes against Islamic State in Syria and 13 in Iraq since Friday, the coalition leading the operations said in a statement. Asia Malaysia detained 1,018 Bangladeshi and Rohingya refugees after they arrived in three boats on Monday, police said, a day after Indonesian authorities rescued 600 stranded off the coast of Aceh. South Korea has said that North Korea’s recent test-firing of a ballistic missile from a submarine was “very serious and concerning”, and that it will respond “mercilessly” to the threat. China has invited...
05 Apr The ICJ’s Findings on Plausible Genocide in Gaza and its Implications for the International Criminal Court
...on this blog that the plausibility test might be akin to a ‘reasonable grounds’ standard and notes that in the Gambia v. Myanmar, the Court heavily relied on reports of the Fact-Finding Mission on Myanmar, which concluded, ‘on reasonable grounds, that the factors allowing the inference of genocidal intent are present’ (§1441). This mission clarified that it ‘employed the “reasonable grounds” standard in making factual determinations’ (§10). Similarly, in Canada and the Netherlands v Syria, the Court relied on reports by the Commission of Inquiry on Syria, which applied a...18 Oct Weekday News Wrap: Thursday, October 18, 2012
...a cease-fire in Syria during the Muslim holiday of Id al-Adha, as proposed by Lakhdar Brahimi, the UN-Arab League Special Envoy for Syria. The International Criminal Court has pleaded with the UN Security Council for more support to ensure states cooperated with inquiries of the Court, citing problems in Darfur and Libya. GIsha, the Israeli NGO advocating for the freedom of movement of Palestinians, has claimed that reports released by the Israeli Defence Ministry under a freedom of information request show that Israel limited food supplies in the Gaza strip...27 Feb The Problem of International Parental Child Abduction
...she has sole custody. (link) Read more … about Adam Haseeb—in his memory…. He is my son who is now deceased. I blame the abduction—and how the State Department handled this case on his death…. Back in the year 2000 I was not notified that his father had obtained a passport on Adam and then while we were still fighting for custody he abducted four year old Adam to Syria. Hakeem Haseeb (Was a U.S. citizen—converted to ISLAM) and had no relatives in Syria…. Adam Haseeb, R.I.P. (November 9, 1995...