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18 Jan Another Round on IHL and IHRL
...of theory, should we focus on the issues from the standpoint of a military commander on "the battlefield" and more generally in a theatre of war and ask the questions, WHO would have a relevant human right even though global human rights law applies universally and in the context of war (international or non-international) and WHAT human right are we to consider? From that perspective, I would say that the first issue has been answered (and for some of you, please just assume the premise), that global human rights law...24 Jun OLC Memo – The Due Process Piece
...Mathews v. Eldridge (a 1976 Supreme Court case assessing what process was due before the government could deprive an individual of property) as setting the test for assessing how much process is required in the targeting case as well; Mathews is the test the Hamdi Court applied in 2004 in determining that U.S. citizen Yaser Hamdi, picked up on the Afghan battlefield, was entitled to notice of the reason for his detention and an opportunity to be heard by a neutral arbiter, once the exigency surrounding his battlefield seizure had...21 May No, the UN Has Not Said the U.S. Is Engaged in an “Armed Conflict” with Al Qaeda
...by Pakistan itself, not by third parties, and so far it has implicitly acquiesced. Therefore, the statement only deals with the justification for targeting Bin Laden with lethal military force in the specific location where he was found. On 9/18/01 when the AUMF was passed, the Taliban controlled 90% of the area of Afghanistan, represented the only functioning government, and had an army of 45,000 soldiers engaged in a conventional battlefield against insurgents (the Northern Alliance). One can argue that this armed conflict started as an IAC. If so, I...
25 Aug Symposium on Reframing Transitional Justice: Reflections on Witnessing and the Right to be Known
...of former child soldiers and restoring their rights. I also learnt that decoupling legal understandings of children’s victimhood and their experiences in the battlefield was fundamental when working with minors who have waged and survived war, and that addressing the continuum before-during-after recruitment was fundamental, especially to broaden the scope when reflecting what victimisation entails: the social and political conditions that make recruitment possible. In other words, that supporting minors’ social reintegration required a fair amount of epistemic labour (p. 52) that was not always possible. Occasionally, the mandate to...