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08 Dec

...Cairo statement, Khan specifically describe Palestinian civilians as innocent: “And there’s no denying that any right-minded person would agree that beyond that crossing — and I had those pictures we see on the television around the world in my mind — beyond that crossing are innocent Palestinians, innocent children, boys and girls who should be at school, who should be playing in parks or playing football or playing with their friends, learning and studying and hoping to build a better future.” Moreover, Khan has left no doubt that Israel must...
08.12.23 | |

15 Aug

...by OISL, the first independent, international human rights investigation into the atrocities on the island, may have effectively excused the international community from promoting critical discourse, let alone political recognition, of genocide. Genocide appears in the report’s section on applicable international criminal law, which defines the elements of genocide and outlines Sri Lanka’s legal obligations under the Genocide Convention. It is mentioned only once more when the report recommends the domestic criminalization of genocide. The report is silent on genocide allegations as well as investigations and prosecutions thereof. Its omission...
15.08.19 | |

15 Oct

...General Assembly, calling for action to develop “red lines” on AI development before the “window for meaningful intervention closes.” We agree.  In this post we examine, first, how Trump’s AI Action Plan radically increases the risk posed by AGI by sparking a nationalistic competition in AI development, and by deliberately undermining domestic and international AI regulation; and second, why and how it is increasingly urgent that we develop global governance structures designed to address the specific risks associated with AGI. The AI Action Plan – National Dominance & Anti-Governance President...
15.10.25 | and |

16 May

...preserving academic freedom, and tackling racial profiling by campus security. They provide such a rich analysis that I didn’t want the essay to end. Upon reflection, it doesn’t; theirs is a call for continued creative and provocative engagement in an ongoing struggle. Most colleagues don’t know that the first course I taught was Feminist Legal Issues. I always felt a natural affinity for gender-based struggles. Class, race, and gender-based oppressions are incestuous, intersecting, multi-secting, and criss-crossing straight through each other. “The most disrespected person in America”, Malcolm X said, “is...
16.05.22 | |

04 Jan

...A. Khan KC, concludes first visit to Israel and State of Palestine by an ICC Prosecutor: “We must show that the law is there, on the front lines, and that it is capable of protecting all” – 3 December 2023 Statement of the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court, Karim A.A. Khan KC, on the Situation in the State of Palestine: receipt of a referral from five States Parties – 17 November 2023 Prosecutor’s Op-Ed in The Guardian and various newspapers – 10 November 2023 Press statement from Cairo –...
04.01.24 | |

25 Oct

...team members are Black.” Moreover, Insider Magazine notes that “only 6.3% of [Oscar] nominations went to Black creatives, while 2.6% went to Latinx people and 1.4% went to Asian people.” As a result, most movies produced in Hollywood have adopted white and Western frames of reference for their storylines and characters. In fact, even when the movies discuss stories involving Black, Indigenous and/or other ethnic minority characters, they tend to fall in the “White Saviour” trope, where a white person is “the great leader who saves blacks from slavery or...
25.10.22 | |

27 Feb

...of health care products for effective distribution to the recipients across States Parties’ (p. 12); ‘develop and maintain a database containing details of the ingredients, components, design, know-how, manufacturing process, or any other information required to facilitate health products required for responding to the potential PHEICs’ (pp. 12-13); ‘establish a repository of cell-lines to accelerate the production of similar biotherapeutics products and vaccines’ (p. 14); ‘develop appropriate regulatory guidelines for the rapid approval of health products of quality’ (p. 14); to (presumably) build institutional capacity to globally coordinate infodemic management,...
27.02.23 | and |

26 Oct

Your weekly selection of international law and international relations headlines from around the world: Africa At least 55 people have died and almost 100 were wounded after suicide bombings struck two mosques in different cities in northeast Nigeria, officials said. A senior al Shabaab commander and about 20 of his followers have pledged allegiance to Islamic State, the first move of its kind to emerge in the Somali militant group. Cameroonian soldiers drove Boko Haram insurgents back across the country’s northern border into Nigeria on Friday, a day after the...
26.10.15 | |

26 Mar

Iran’s seizure last week of 15 UK sailors for allegedly crossing into Iranian territorial waters is part of a very complex diplomatic story intertwined with Iraq, Iran’s nuclear program, and longstanding UK-Iranian tensions. But it also raises some international legal questions. For instance, were the UK sailors actually in Iranian waters? The UK sailors had authority from the Iraqi government and a United Nations Security Council Resolution to operate in Iraqi territorial waters to try to stop smuggling. But their authority plainly did not allow them to stray into Iranian...
26.03.07 | |

28 Dec

...line – something along the lines of, this was fun (or not fun) while it lasted, but now it’s over. Bainbridge’s conversion is a riff on this, and here’s another site that recently pulled the plug in a forthright way. In the meantime, the number of abandoned blogs shows at least that the medium is still a fluid and unstable one. UPDATE: Interesting thoughts from Orin Kerr and Doug Berman, as well as this post on the growth of the Law Professors Blog Network, in addition to the comments below....
28.12.06 | |

28 Feb

In a case argued this morning at the Supreme Court, the Department of Justice has sided with a group of disabled cruise passengers who sued Norwegian Cruise Lines for failing to provide the kinds of accommodations required on public transportation under the Americans with Disabilities Act. NCL argues that, because their ships fly under the Bahamian flag, extraterritoriality doctrines should be applied, which would exempt them from ADA regulation in the same way that they are exempt from federal labor laws. (NCL’s brief is here.) DOJ and the plaintiffs’ argue...
28.02.05 | |

28 Apr

...to draw lines separating acceptable from unacceptable behavior, permitted conduct from required conduct, etc. I’ve drafted a new chapter that, in the context of cyber war, examines both the ways we draw law from borders and borders from law in cyberspace. I critique the status quo on both theoretical and functional grounds, concluding that we should seek to start a new process not just for constructing governance regimes, but normative ones as well. Consistent with the book’s central focus on cyber war, I proffer a case-study for such an approach...
28.04.14 | |