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18 Jun The Great Tomato Trade Wars
...that all exports to the United States have come to a complete halt. “We can’t sell a single box of tomatoes,” said Jesus Macias, sales manager at the Productora Agricola Industrial del Noreste in the border state of Baja California. “Mexican growers said their produce is subject to double the scrutiny that U.S. tomatoes face: inspected first by Mexican officials and then again at the border when crossing into the U.S.” The FDA salmonella warning provides a useful heuristic about the intersection between international trade litigation and investment arbitration. I...
01 May Beyond Territoriality: Symposium on Jurisdictional “Hooks” for (Extraterritorial) Human Rights Obligations – Human Rights Relationships Across Borders in the Triple Planetary Crisis
...of both state obligations and business responsibilities in relation to environmental and climate justice, topics I have explored inspired by the work of Knop and others. A relational approach flows easily if the starting point is international environmental law, rather than international human rights law. For example, physical border crossing movements of hazardous substances (such as air or water pollution) from a state of origin that impact the territory of a second state are generally understood as transboundary. This idea is reflected in Principle 2 of the Rio Declaration, often...
06 Nov Forced Displacement of Armenians from Nagorno-Karabakh: A Response
...retroactivity to 10 May 2021. Thus, the ICC will have jurisdiction over the displacement of the Armenians the same way that it does over that of the Rohingya for acts of deportation “by expulsion or other coercive acts” under Articles 7(1)(d) and 7(2)(d) by virtue of victims crossing the border from a State not Party to a State Party to the Rome Statute (see here, para. 73). To the extent that such deportation targeted the Armenians of Nagorno-Karabakh as the Rohingya on impermissible grounds (e.g. ethnic, religious, political, or other),...01 Jun Weekday News Wrap: Friday, June 1, 2012
...in the 1994 Rwandan genocide. Canada has finalized its withdrawal from the UN World Tourism Office following the decision to appoint Robert Mugabe as tourism ambassador. The UN meanwhile disputes that it involves a formal appointment. Aung San Suu Kyi has warned against “reckless optimism” over the reforms in Myanmar and has asked foreign investors to focus on job creation to defuse the time bomb of high youth employment. An Israeli soldier and a Palestinian gunman were killed at a border crossing in Gaza this morning. The Italian Supreme Court...03 Sep Washington Post Stories on the CIA and JSOC – and My Prediction of Harold Koh’s Legacy as Legal Adviser
...the target than conventional military operations would require — this is, after all, what makes it intelligence-driven targeted killing. In that particular aspect, covert action (again speaking loosely) ought to have standards that are higher than simply those that are and legally should be applied to that other use of drones – not targeted killing, but instead the targeting of a mass of combatants id’d as fighters crossing the Afghan border to fight Americans. (Drones have a role in both conventional warfare and special operations targeted killing, but the latter...26 Mar Weekday News Wrap: Tuesday, March 26, 2013
...leader of the rebels in the Central African Republic has vowed to announce a power-sharing government as soon as possible. This comes after he suspended the constitution and pledged to dissolve parliament. UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon has urged restoration of constitutional order in the CAR as swiftly as possible. An Egyptian prosecutor has ordered the arrest of five activists accused of inciting violence against the Muslim Brotherhood. Jordan has closed its main border crossing with Syria after two days of fighting between rebel forces and Syrian troops. North Korea...17 Sep Israel Shows Its Contempt for Academic Freedom
...and Capitalism and Class in the Gulf Arab States (Palgrave Macmillan, 2011), as well as numerous academic articles. This act of denial of entry and deportation by the Israeli state and its agencies is part of a systematic policy of denial of entry to international academics, professionals and activists intending to visit Palestine. This policy represents an attack on Palestinian academic freedom, and is routinely practiced at the two entry points, the airport in Tel Aviv and the Jordan valley crossing from Jordan. Israel is truly the Donald Trump of...
11 Jul The New STCoA: The Good, the Bad, the Curious, and the Terrible
...personal immunity applies at the STCoA, in the “bad” category. I’m putting it in the “good” category for two reasons. First, given that there is no argument that an STCoA created by the CoE and Ukraine qualifies as “international” within the meaning of Arrest Warrant, denying personal immunity to the so-called “troika” would violate international law. And second, I think the provision is actually pretty clever, going right up to the Arrest Warrant line without actually crossing it. The Arrest Warrant judgment basically prohibits any national exercise of enforcement jurisdiction,...