Search: crossing lines
15 Sep Lebanon’s Fight Against Trafficking: How One Judge’s Decision Could Help Preserve the Country’s Standing
...entire country and for the region. Its outcome could determine Lebanon’s global standing, as well as the treatment of thousands of women still trapped within the Kafala system. LAW is an independent non-profit organization of lawyers and jurists working on the front lines in fragile and conflict-affected areas. It empowers individuals and communities affected by human rights violations to seek justice and strengthens institutions to deliver it. Operating in Lebanon since 2018, LAW provides legal information, assistance, and representation to vulnerable groups of all nationalities—including women and girls, migrant domestic...13 Dec Transitional Justice and Judicial Activism Symposium: Closing
...They stall, dither, and, eventually, render flawed decisions that try to square the circle and appease everyone but end up appeasing no one. And when they take advantage of the little leeway they have and manage to dodge the case, they are open to criticism because of the lack of transparency about the considerations that have been weighted. His proposal that international tribunals would have discretion to refuse cases say along political question lines is very interesting. No doubt, where a tribunal is long established and has acquired considerable legitimacy...05 Mar AG Holder’s National Security Speech – Text
...this work, as well as the special role of the Department of Justice in protecting the American people and upholding the Constitution. Before 9/11, today’s level of interagency cooperation was not commonplace. In many ways, government lacked the infrastructure – as well as the imperative – to share national security information quickly and effectively. Domestic law enforcement and foreign intelligence operated in largely independent spheres. But those who attacked us on September 11th chose both military and civilian targets. They crossed borders and jurisdictional lines. And it immediately became clear...
07 Oct Killing in the Name: Three Legal Paradigms to Evaluate the Legality of US Actions in the Caribbean (Part I)
...signs of acting under its effective or overall control. All these facts support the conclusion that these conducts cannot be legally qualified as being to the prejudice of Venezuela and are thus not governed by jus ad bellum rules on account of not being directed against another State’s political independence or territorial integrity. Or, rather, that the use of force regime is inadequate to assess the legality of the strikes for a lack of identity ratio materiae. Along the same lines, attention should be paid to the communication emanated from...09 Mar Jenni Millbank Reflects on Panel 3 and Responds to Guglielmo Verdirame
...can be definitively drawn between integral and marginal conduct associated with sexuality. Sexual orientation is expressed—and revealed—in hundreds, if not thousands, of subtle and obvious ways through appearance, speech, behavior, dress and mannerisms. Moreover, lines between what is “integral” and what is “marginal” conduct associated with sexual minorities in another culture prospectively drawn by Western decision makers have often failed to properly encompass accepted human rights standards, as the lower level decisions in HJ and HT amply demonstrate. Over a decade of my own research on sexuality-based refugee status determination...
07 Feb Overfocusing on Prosecuting Aggression Risks Impunity for Ukraine’s Swelling Dock of Alleged War Criminals
...any tribunal—international, hybrid, or otherwise—any time in the near future. Rather, the international community must turn its attention to the serious issue of the ever-expanding dock of Russian prisoners of war in Ukrainian custody accused of war crimes. While the ICC has made headlines for the Prosecutor’s bold issuance of an arrest warrant against President Putin, which has already made the Russian despot’s world significantly smaller, the Court’s limited resources and system of complementary jurisdiction make it suited to try only individuals most responsible for widespread atrocity crimes in Ukraine....
02 Nov Third Annual Symposium on Pop Culture and International Law: Game of Thrones and Hjalmar Schacht
...increase employment, or enforce reserve cash requirements on other banks. Rather, it functions as a private bank that provides credit to, among other entities, nearby city-states and kingdoms, much along the lines of the Medici Bank of the 15th century and the Fuggers of the 16th. By any standards, its lending is reckless. The profligate spending that all but emptied the treasury under King Robert Baratheon would have been impossible without a dependable stream of Iron Bank loans, none of which seem to have had the strings attached that we...
11 Jul The Rise of the Global Legal Order
...global economy, the formerly developing states were forced to refinance their loans. With commercial loans unavailable, they were driven into the arms of the IMF. New loans were offered, but they came with conditions beyond mere repayment. These new “loan conditionalities” demanded macroeconomic restructuring along neoliberal lines. Not coincidentally, the IMF and World Bank were each purged of their Keynesian economists over the course of the 1970s. The new conditionalities insisted that the formerly developing states reverse the policies that had brought them a brief period of actual development. The...18 May Book Discussion “Outsourcing War and Peace”: Contractor Accountability as a Barrier to SOFAs
...on high-level political issues. However, persons close to the negotiations on both sides have confirmed that the most contentious single issue related to the treatment of civilians and civilian contractors. The Pentagon viewed both DOD civilians and contractors as an essential part of the force deployed; accordingly the United States insisted that both be covered by immunity provisions under the SOFA. The Iraqis replied that they were essentially prepared to enter into a SOFA along the lines of those that the United States had concluded in the years following World...31 Mar HILJ Online Symposium: On the Love of Hybrids and Technicalities
...rights protection, 27-30). We part our ways – although perhaps more in terms of reasoning than the conclusion (p 43) – when the article makes an argument for interdependence of investor’s and State’s rights, with the first claim against the respondent State (whoever of the two it might be brought by) precluding the second one, along the lines of the ICSID Convention (pp 43-9). The first objection is that this argument cannot be based on the principle underlying the rule of the ICSID Convention: article 27(1) does not waive or...