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03 May How Should the OBL Operation be Characterized?
...and Kooijmans recognized that in a post-9/11 world containing failed states, state practice strongly supports the view that an expansive reading of Article 51 to include non-state actors is appropriate. Sunday’s operation was another example of state practice undertaken with the belief that the boundaries of the battlefield are not determined by geopolitical lines but rather by the location of participants in an armed conflict, whether the participants are states or non-state actors. This continues to be the standard for determining where the law of armed conflict is properly applied....
08 Oct Trump vs. International Law: Exploiting the Legal Gaps Left by the Obama Administration
...position, ever since the 9/11 attacks, that the U.S. is engaged in a “global war on terror” that initially rejected even the Geneva Conventions as “quaint” and inapplicable — a position later corrected by the Supreme Court. But the US still maintains that a “global war” framework allows it to ignore human rights such as the right to life protected under the ICCPR by declaring the entire world a potential battlefield where the ICCPR does not apply to US conduct. Koh writes that Obama “abandoned” the claim of an open-ended...10 Oct John Yoo Gives Partial Endorsement for Awlaki Memo
...put aside the arguments they made during the Bush years that any terrorist outside the Afghani battlefield was a criminal suspect who deserved his day in federal court. By my lights, I would rather the Obama folks be hypocrites in favor of protecting the national security than principled fools (which they are free to be in the faculty lounges both before and after their time in government). But the administration’s former worldview of terrorism still infects their decisions, to the country’s detriment. According to the reports, the Obama administration believes...
06 Jun Can War Crimes Trials in Ukraine Convince Russians to Stop Supporting the War?
...serve to rally public support in Russia for Putin’s ‘special military operation’. It could also embolden soldiers on the battlefield to commit atrocities with impunity. Putin’s 12 July 2021 article “On the Historical Unity of Russians and Ukrainians” imagines Ukraine as an inferior vassal of Russia. Putin branded Ukraine’s leadership as ‘neo-Nazis and drug addicts’ responsible for perpetrating ‘genocide’ against Donbas ethnic Russians. Sustained Kremlin rhetoric against Ukraine long predates the 24 February invasion and it helps explain the serious discrepancy between public opinion inside and outside Russia. The Kremlin’s...04 May Quick Thoughts on UBL’s Killing — and a Response to Lewis
...include non-state actors is appropriate. Sunday’s operation was another example of state practice undertaken with the belief that the boundaries of the battlefield are not determined by geopolitical lines but rather by the location of participants in an armed conflict, whether the participants are states or non-state actors. This continues to be the standard for determining where the law of armed conflict is properly applied. The second and third sentences of this statement are correct, but they in no way follow from the first sentence. IHL applies to the operation...29 May New Laws for a New Cybercommand?
...should use cyberweapons, and the public announcement on Friday is expected to focus solely on defensive steps and the government’s acknowledgment that it needs to be better organized to face the threat from foes attacking military, government and commercial online systems. . . . “We are not comfortable discussing the question of offensive cyberoperations, but we consider cyberspace a war-fighting domain,“ said Bryan Whitman, a Pentagon spokesman. “We need to be able to operate within that domain just like on any battlefield, which includes protecting our freedom of movement and...19 Jan Weekend Roundup: January 12-18, 2013
...at a recent symposium on the Boundaries of the Battlefield, co-ordinated by my fellow Assistant Editor, Jessica Dorsey, and Başak Çalı posted the second part of her series on international judicial review, comparing two cases of the European Court of Human Rights. In addition to our regular Events and announcements post, Julian announced that Tom Graham, member of the WTO’s Appellate Body, will give the Shapiro lecture at Hofstra on February 6. Roger congratulated David Caron on his appointment as the new dean at the Dickson Poon School of Law...
14 Jul The Business of Security: New Frontiers and Old Challenges in Private Military and Security Companies Regulation – Introduction to the Symposium
...the Global South’s Burden by Madhumita Jayashankar Who is Responsible? When Private Military Companies Aren’t Completely Private by Lindsay Freeman and Amanda Ghahremani Ukraine’s New Bill on PMSCs – A Possible Pandora’s Box for Operations Abroad? by Darío Bürky Arellano From Contract to Combat – Individual Criminal Liability of PMSC Personnel and Its Integration into Emerging Treaty Frameworks by Adrián Agenjo Profit, Power, and the Privatised Battlefield by Ara Marcén Naval Playing Regulatory Catch-up – PM(S)Cs and the New Draft Instrument by Sarah Katharina Stein The views expressed in this...
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Gabriella Citroni, Chiara Gabriele, Danaé van der Straten Ponthoz and Julie Bardèche
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19 Sep Chess, Politics, and the Ground Zero Islamic Center Debacle
...saying. Via ChessVibes and OneFIDE, Ilyumzhinov is quoted at having said: “As President of the World Chess Federation (FIDE), and as a person who has always supported inter religious understanding, I propose the construction of an International Chess Center at the site in question. Chess is a unique and intellectual game, it came to the West from the East, unites every country, and it has affinities with every religion equally. My dream as President of the World Chess Federation (FIDE) is that chess becomes the only “battlefield” between East and...