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07 May

...property. In the days leading up to the raid, Mexico’s foreign relations secretariat decried the build-up of Ecuadorian police forces outside the embassy. Afterwards, Ecuador described Mexico’s conferral of asylum to Glas as an abuse of privileges and immunities, entitling Ecuador to apprehend the asylee. Tehran Hostages (1980) is the leading ICJ case on inviolability. In it, the Court characterizes diplomatic law as a self-contained regime which outlines both the obligations of the receiving state with respect to diplomatic missions, and the means by which they can respond to abuses...
07.05.24 | |

18 May

...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...
18.05.12 | |

16 Sep

...such as telephone lines, etc.? This is, after all, an investigation by a state DA, and not even a federal prosecutor. Although somewhat weirdly, given the politics at that moment, a local level investigation by a state DA of unimpeachable integrity and also a stalwart of the Democratic establishment – rather than a DOJ investigation by the then-Bush administration, turned out to be far more politically palatable. In any case, the weakened Annan did not do what might otherwise have been an inflexible and categorical response of the UN –...
16.09.10 | |

17 Sep

...to Mauritius and then to the UK Privy Council (according to this earlier report). This strikes me as the leading edge of a potentially huge development, in which private actors more formally get their own pieces of turf and the lines between sovereign entities further blur. This is by no means to necessarily to celebrate the development (science fiction suggests this dystopian destination). But it does deepen the challenge to received doctrine, and it will require legal innovation to situate the new, private city-state in the world of international law....
17.09.12 | |

02 Apr

...call on everyone to respect that voluntary choice,” he said, adding that his Government could not refuse Crimeans their right to self-determination. Historical justice had been vindicated, he noted, recalling that for many years, Crimea had been part of the Russian Federation, sharing a common history, culture and people. An arbitrary decision in 1954 had transferred the region to the Ukrainian Republic, upsetting the natural state of affairs and cutting Crimea off from Russia. Gone were the bright lines that Russia had said existed regarding Kosovo: that inasmuch as Serbia...
02.04.14 | |

04 Sep

...counterterrorism policy — that is, a war on terror — is as important as the White House believes it is, then it merits the blessing of the legislature and ought not to exist merely at the discretionary whim of some future president. On the eve of midterm elections that could reverse Republican control of at least one house of Congress, (see here, here and here) one would think that this would be a particularly propitious time for the Bush Administration to work with Congress along the lines Anderson is suggesting....
04.09.06 | |

11 Sep

...law, many coming from people who would consider themselves "international lawyers". I would suggest that one reason human rights and/or international human rights law "appear unchallenged" is due to the marginalization of such criticisms by international lawyers and their exclusion from the invisible college. The concept of "human rights" (as opposed to international human rights law) is seen as not the province of international law but of other disciplines such as philosophy or IR which are placed outside the invisible college's walls. As for criticisms of international human rights law,...
11.09.13 | |

14 Jan

...be remarkable. It seems that there were meetings in the last days of July brokered by Mubarak that were possibly a way to resolve this. Something must have gone wrong - possibly seriously wrong - in those meetings leading to an interpretation by Saddam as his having to "put up or shut up" by crossing the border into Kuwait. Best, Ben Liz Always thought the text of the April Glaspie exchange was interesting. Available (well before Wikileaks) here: http://www.chss.montclair.edu/english/furr/glaspie.html The Nation left out the most interesting bit about China. That...
14.01.11 | |

10 Apr

Socrates While the US-India deal does not violate any written portion of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, it certainly undercuts the treaty. The compromise at the heart of the NTP is that countries which renounce any right to build nuclear weapons are allowed civilian nuclear technology that they would not otherwise have access to. For this reason, the international community attempts to prevent the sale of nuclear material to non-NTP states. The export of nuclear material is constrained by the guidelines of the Nuclear Suppliers Group and by US law. What...
10.04.06 | |

24 Jul

...prohibition should be taken quite seriously. Certainly not that Kansas was alone crossing the line, though it illustrated some of the reasons for the prohibition. Gov. Sebelius seems to have pushed further than some others, but none of these agreements should be allowed without the approval of Congress, per Article 1 Section 10. As for FARA, it has been getting some more attention lately, including the AIPAC cases, the Chi Mak and related cases (in which Bill Gertz has refused under subpoena to reveal his grand jury sources), and Stephen...
24.07.08 | |

21 Oct

...is of sufficiently high value. Kevin Jon Heller With regard to Kunduz, I think there is no question that the attack would have been disproportionate even if unwounded Taliban were there. Richard Galber To expand the rules regarding the attacking hospitals risks the potential of creating even greater risk of using hospitals for combat purposes. The main deterrent to attacking hospitals is not via legislation and/or treaties, but by international public opinion. Countries are terrified of losing any international support they may have, so are wary of crossing certain lines....
21.10.16 | |

07 Aug

...any actual enemies charged with providing support to the enemy in violation of the laws of war (that didn't involve personally committing acts of violence)? The Quirin saboteurs' crime was crossing our lines of defense in disguise, etc. (There were lots of cases like that during the Civil War, too, I think.) Was Hamdan accused of anything like that? John C. Dehn Jennifer, I think you made the point very well that the marauders, pirates and the like are not objects of IHL as Bart suggests. They violate the universal...
07.08.08 | |