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22 Nov

...forces. Unlawful combatants are likewise subject to capture and detention, but in addition they are subject to trial and punishment by military tribunals for acts which render their belligerency unlawful. The spy who secretly and without uniform passes the military lines of a belligerent in time of war, seeking to gather military information and communicate it to the enemy, or an enemy combatant who without uniform comes secretly through the lines for the purpose of waging war by destruction of life or property, are familiar examples of belligerents who are...
22.11.06 | |

27 Aug

...do not usually claim the right to exclude other nations’ aircraft from their ADIZ, as if it was sovereign territory. (For a recent discussion of the legal issues in ADIZ declarations, see here). Now, since China has usually been careful to avoid crossing into Taiwan’s ADIZ (or at least parts of Taiwan’s ADIZ), its decision to do so now is interesting and significant. But it is not a territorial incursion and it is not (technically) breaching “Taiwan’s airspace”. So news agencies should be careful not to report it as such....
27.08.14 | |

19 Nov

...we have no idea what it would all add up to. But already last year, we crossed 1.5℃ of warming for the first time. And normally, you need to cross it for a few years before you have definitely passed 1.5℃. So, the situation is dire, and the Secretary-General is emphasizing the urgency of the issue. Moreover, many countries take ‘overshoot’ (crossing the temperature objective and returning to it later in the century) for granted, and many actors want to increase their emissions while compensating for it (net zero). Both...
19.11.25 | |

08 Dec

...since the U.S. does not recognize Japanese sovereignty over the Senkaku/Diaoyu Islands, why should it complain when China draws an ADIZ intended to protect airspace over those islands? This wrinkle in the U.S. position also explains Japan’s harsher reaction to the Chinese ADIZ. To Japan, China is literally demanding Japanese airlines report to its military before crossing airspace into or near Japan’s own national airspace. It would be like China demanding information from US airlines flying between San Francisco and Hawaii (Congress would explode with indignation). But from the U.S....
08.12.13 | |

09 Apr

...legal authority for enforcing the boundary line at all? Is there some statute out there that authorizes the Executive Branch to maintain the boundary line where it is and keep folks from crossing it, moving it, or building much larger obstructions than a 3 foot retaining wall? If not, could Medellin have the unintended consequence of wiping out our border with Canada until Congress legislates it? Now, I’d assume that the courts would not go so far, even if that’s the direction Medellin clearly points. For example, I’d expect that,...
09.04.08 | |

06 Jun

In its relentless quest to recover the underseas treasure recently found by a Florida-based company, the Spanish government has instructed its Navy, pursuant to a court order, to detain to U.S. ships belonging to that company. Those ships are currently in Gibraltar, but apparently, they will be boarded and seized as soon as they leave Gibraltar and enter Spanish waters. I’m a little fuzzy on the geography here (maybe the attached map helps?), but assuming that crossing Spanish waters is necessary to leave Gibraltar, the two U.S. ships are out...
06.06.07 | |

23 Oct

...(be it GATS, services chapters in FTAs or the plurilateral TISA under negotiation) classify “trade in services” remains very much linked to the idea of physically supplying a service from one country to one other country, with either “the service” crossing the border (mode 1), the consumer physically traveling to the place where the supplier is located (mode 2) or the supplier setting up a physical “commercial presence” (mode 3), or sending a “natural person” (mode 4), to the country of consumption. This focus on the physical is a far...
23.10.13 | |

11 Jul

...feet apart with hazard signs in English and Spanish (apparently not every canal-crossing large mammal is bilingual). But ladders won’t cut it, plaintiffs argue, and many more deer will drown if they are forced to climb canal ladders rather than traverse escape ridges. That argument works, right? No. Why not? Well, the problem is there are no large American mammals trying to cross the All American Canal! The court concluded that following a year of deer tracking and aerial surveillance there was no sign of deer in the area in...
11.07.06 | |

25 Aug

...patriotism seem to be universal values. I remember trying to cross the street once in Palau, one of the smallest countries in the world, and a high school kid came up to me and said, “This is how we cross the street in PALAU!” Even crossing the street became an act to tell me about his pride in his country. People involved in making foreign policy should be very aware of this. 13) America and Canada share a common culture. This may irk Canadians, but we really do share a...
25.08.10 | |

15 Feb

...that no one has ever been disciplined for this kind ethical line-crossing when it comes to “candid advice-giving.” And, at least as regards the Geneva Conventions question, the client (President Bush, through his counsel, Alberto Gonzales) had access to the alternative view put forth by State. It nonetheless is an important discussion of slippery slope of ends-based advocacy, one which bears discussion with our students. No doubt, there are strong views on where the ethical line is appropriately drawn. To promote open discussion of this issue, ASIL has placed it...
15.02.05 | |

25 May

...prescriptions of the law; the focus being on maximizing the numbers by whatever means, without complying with the law.” In my view, the Supreme Court of Malawi’s departure from the quantitative approach is a welcome development because, it places the need to comply with electoral rules at the center of election management and litigation. In 2015, SADC Member States adopted a set of electoral principles and guidelines known as SADC Principles and Guidelines Governing Democratic Elections. These principles enjoin SADC Member states to ensure that they conduct regular, free and...
25.05.20 | |

16 Mar

...scare tactics at world talks on wildlife protection on Monday as it campaigned against a proposal to curb trade in bluefin tuna, the succulent sushi delicacy…. “Japan’s lobbying is formidable. Three or four people from the Japanese delegation are constantly criss-crossing the Convention, arranging meetings,” he told AFP. On Sunday, Japanese delegates met with some African nations, said a negotiator from west Africa. “We are used to it. They do the same thing before each meeting of the International Whaling Commission,” the body that oversees global whale populations, he said....
16.03.10 | |