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30 Oct New Article on the Legality of Signature Strikes
The article, which is available in draft form on SSRN, is entitled “‘One Hell of a Killing Machine’: Signature Strikes and International Law.” It is forthcoming in the Journal of International Criminal Justice as part of a mini-symposium on targeted killing edited by Cornell’s Jens Ohlin. Here is the abstract: The vast majority of drone attacks conducted by the U.S. have been signature strikes – those that target “groups of men who bear certain signatures, or defining characteristics associated with terrorist activity, but whose identities aren’t known.” In 2010, for...02 Jun Weekend Roundup: May 26 – June 1, 2012
...of Desert. Jonathan Barron commented how international criminal law is in transition from second-party to third-party punishment and Adil Haque questioned whether Andrew’s suggestions would make the international criminal law regime no longer a criminal regime or no longer a legal regime. Jens Ohlin debated Andrew’s assumption that international criminal law is fundamentally retributive and his application of social science insights about the power of moral sentiments to crowd out consequentialist calculations. Andrew’s response can be found here. The second article, by Alvaro Santos, discussed how developing countries can carve...18 Oct Håkan Friman
I am very sorry to report the shocking news, that many have already seen on Twitter, that Håkan Friman has passed away, much too young. Anyone involved in international criminal justice surely knows Håkan’s name, and more likely than not, knew Håkan personally. In addition to his many many academic publications on international criminal law (including the well-known Introduction to International Criminal Law and Procedure by him, Robert Cryer, Darryl Robinson, and Elizabeth Wilmshurst), Håkan was a Judge on the Solna District Court in Sweden, and also held...29 Jan Hostages and Human Dignity
News reports indicate that Jordan is engaged in frantic negotiations with the Islamic State (ISIS) over a proposed hostage swap. Jordan is apparently willing to turn over a prisoner, would-be suicide bomber Sajida al-Rishawi, in exchange for ISIS releasing both a Jordanian air force pilot and a Japanese captive. For reasons that aren’t entirely clear, the deal appears to have collapsed. Earlier video appeared to show that another Japanese hostage was murdered by ISIS–a development that provoked shock and outrage in Japan. ISIS hostage-takers had earlier demanded $200...21 Sep Weekly News Wrap: Monday, September 21, 2015
...it has built. A senior U.S. defense official said on Thursday that additional sanctions were a possible response to any North Korea missile launch and the commander of U.S. forces in the Pacific said he favored deployment of a U.S. anti-missile system in South Korea. Europe With a troubled peace plan for the Ukrainian conflict nearing its deadline, NATO chief Jens Stoltenberg will attempt a balancing act to reassure Kiev of the West’s support without antagonizing Moscow when he visits Ukraine on Monday. Bitterly-divided European leaders will seek to find...
28 Oct The Oxford Statement On International Law Protections Against Foreign Electoral Interference Through Digital Means
...Senior Research Fellow, Centre for Social Sciences Institute for Legal Studies; Associate Professor, Corvinus University of Budapest Duncan B. Hollis, Laura H. Carnell Professor of Law, Temple University School of Law María-José Cervell Hortal, tenured professor of Public International Law, Universidad de Murcia, Spain Kristine Huskey, Clinical Professor of Law, University of Arizona James E. Rogers College of Law Mark Janis, formerly Fellow of Exeter College & Reader in Law, University of Oxford Eric Talbot Jensen, Robert W. Barker Professor of Law, Brigham Young University Derek Jinks, A.W. Walker Centennial...05 Apr ICC Ducks the Article 95 Issue Regarding Gaddafi
...article 18 or 19. Readers will recall that Dapo Akande, Jens Ohlin, and I have been involved in a friendly debate about whether Article 95 applies to surrender requests, as they believe, or only to requests for the collection of evidence, as I believe. (See here and here.) Libya’s latest request gave the PTC an opportunity to give us an answer — but, unfortunately, the judges ducked the Article 95 issue, holding that Libya’s failure to bring a formal admissibility challenge pursuant to Article 18 or 19 meant that they...