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09 Jan The Occupied Palestinian Territories and the Responsibility to Protect (Part 2)
...of Genocide; (c) Cease aiding or assisting in the commission of violations of international law, including by reviewing all relationships with Israel, such as trade, aid and assistance and arms transfers, and ending direct and indirect financial support for illegal settlements, including through tax-deductible donations; (d) Conduct investigations under domestic law or universal jurisdiction to hold accountable the perpetrators of crimes under international law, grave human rights violations and abuses in Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including those identified in the present report, including through criminal prosecutions and sanctions....
10 Jul Climate Justice in an Unequal World: A Chat with Professor Richard Falk, Ecocide’s Legal (Grand)Father
...months of the aerial bombing campaign of the Iraq war, or the punitive sanctions imposed afterwards, which resulted in the death of hundreds of thousand civilians, with effects commensurable to those attributable to weapons of mass destruction. This also raises important questions about whether sanctions can be seen in many cases as structurally oppressive and perpetuating postcolonial hegemonic relationships [see the recent LPE-Yale Symposium]. The challenges in addressing and rectifying these injustices are ongoing. LD: Your points about inequality before international law and the selectivity of its enforcement seem crucial...
23 Mar Symposium on Prosecuting Heads of State for International Crimes: Will X Ever Stand Trial?
...of genocide in Darfur in the early 2000s, he is still in a cell in Khartoum, and there seems to be no path towards his transfer. Existing examples of prosecutions against high-level officials include, as has been a matter of increasingly loud critique over the years, no officials from powerful Western states. Those being prosecuted were the opponents, the weak, the losers. They were never Westerners, never Europeans, Americans or Australians. That is the underlying issue of the current backlash by several powerful states, including U.S. sanctions which have debilitating...30 May Weekday News Wrap: Wednesday, May 30, 2012
...non grata. Interestingly, Belgium can’t expel the Syrian ambassador, because he is also ambassador to the EU and there is no agreement on diplomatic sanctions against Syria within the EU. Foreign Policy has more on what expelling a diplomat entails and the five worst atrocities of the Syrian uprising. Two Danish brothers of Somali origin have been arrested in Denmark connected with allegedly planning an al-Shebab terrorist plot. A former Rwandan school teacher living in Canada pleaded not guilty yesterday to involvement in the Rwandan Genocide; his charges are one...11 Mar The Recent Letter of John Kerry and its Impact on the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA)
...on the international plane may be categorized as a unilateral act.” Moreover, a unilateral declaration must be issued by authorized officials explicitly and publicly. As established in international law, foreign ministers’ statements, by virtue of their functions, may create obligations for their respective countries. The US Secretary of State has explicitly maintained in the letter that: “we remain fully committed to the sanctions lifting provided for under JCPOA.” Giving assurance to his Iranian counterpart, John Kerry affirmed the US intention to JCPOA commitments. In another part of the letter, he...
09 Sep Contemporary International Criminal Law After Critique Symposium: Accountability for the Unaccountable? Article 15 Communications Beyond the ICC
...their view of complicity to include the active support, tacit support, and deliberate silences and inaction of other states and political leaders. By engaging in this form of advocacy, the authors of communications might be able to leverage the stigma of international criminal law to influence public opinion and generate sanctions against illegitimate conduct. Extralegal sanctions can include protests, boycotts, and the reputational damage that arises from being named as a person who has allegedly committed an international crime. For politicians, who rely on public support for re-election, the consequences...18 May A Response to Brad Roth by Jean d’Aspremont
...argued elsewhere, and despite the fact that, in my view, coups d’etat can never be attributed to the states because authors of coups cannot be acting in the capacity of an organ of the state, one cannot turn a blind eye to the contemporary systematic practice whereby putschists almost always fail to secure recognition — unless they commit themselves to organize free and fair elections — and undergo a wide range of sanctions. Putschists most of the time fall short of being recognized and are subject to sanctions, but that...19 Sep IL/IR Symposium: The Engines of Compliance
...typically more diffuse than in domestic systems, but they are nonetheless real: International inducements. Sometimes a state benefits enough from having others follow the rules that it pays the ‘cost’ of ensuring compliance itself, whether in the form of ‘carrots’ (e.g., trade concessions) or ‘sticks’ (e.g., economic sanctions). Inducements are typically decentralized and based on self-help, so their application can be uneven. Inducements also face typical collective action problems, and so often work best when a powerful state is doing the heavy lifting. Reciprocity. Axelrod demonstrated long ago that reciprocity...09 Jan John Yoo Reviews David Scheffer’s Memoir in WSJ
...9/11 caused outrage among intellectuals precisely because it proved so successful: preventing further attacks on the United States, eliminating Osama bin Laden and the al Qaedaleadership, and beginning the overthrow of vicious authoritarian regimes in the Middle East. The Bush administration rejected the ineffectual internationalnetwork of activists, rights groups and courts in favor of a robust unilateral response that drew upon the traditional sources of state power, including diplomacy, economic sanctions and military force. Funny thing is, I don’t know who supposedly argued that the U.S. must never act unilaterally...
28 Nov Profiting from Atrocity: The Emerging Legal Threat to Companies Enabling War Crimes
...from the sales. Such cases highlight a troubling scenario: corporations that manufacture TNT or other bomb components may be aiding grave violations of international law by serving as an essential link that makes commission of crimes possible. What are avenues of potential criminal liability faced by corporations when their products are used to commit war crimes or crimes against humanity? Are there alternative theories of liability, such as for financial crimes, terrorist financing, or sanctions evasion? For a more in-depth examination of corporate liability in war crimes, visit the prior...