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30 Jul

magnet These "warnings" of the IDF are a mockery. In fact, international law scholars agree that Israel is committing war crimes in Gaza by deliberately targeting civilians. The narrative of Hamas hiding behind civilians has been refuted numerous times and lacks proof. Israel has thereby violated fundamental international humanitarian law provisions and shown its utter disregard for human rights law. A very good and indepth analysis on the Gaza conflict from an international law perspective can be found on muslimlawyer.weebly. com . Jens Ohlin Janina, this is a fascinating post....
30.07.14 | |

09 Nov

...aggression in the Thirteen-Power proposal. Article 3 emphasized that self-defence could be exercised only against armed attacks by another State. Those 13 powers included Colombia, Cyprus, Ecuador, Ghana, Guyana, Haiti, Iran, Madagascar, Mexico, Spain, Uganda, Uruguay and Yugoslavia. And note that those 13 states took and even more restrictive approach to self-defense than we are talking about here -- they did not even accept there was a right of self-defense against indirect aggression, where an NSA's armed attack was attributable to a state! Jens Ohlin I find the critics of...
09.11.15 | |

20 Nov

...in Libya or whether it is able to enter into some form of justice-sharing agreement with Libyan authorities to establish a type of "hybrid tribunal" with both ICC and Libyan judges. While the Rome Statute envisioned the possibility of a "traveling Court" it appears silent on the issue of establishing temporary hybrid type institutions. A question for lawyers I am sure! Jens David Ohlin I'm interested in this idea that Libya has an obligation to turn him over first and challenge admissibility later. Not sure I fully understand this argument....
20.11.11 | |

15 Dec

...substance. Perhaps it is enough to look at your response to Jens, in which you declare that prior to 9/11 states "rejected the natural law origins of Article 51, as well." Because the "inherent right" of self defense is itself a product of natural law, I doubt very seriously that this is true. I suspect you mean that they rejected it in this context, a point upon which the long arc of state practice is not as clear as you would have it. Jens David Ohlin On the issue of...
15.12.11 | |

22 Dec

...on post-conflict societies and the creation of sustainable peace. The full call for papers can be read here. Submissions should include an abstract of no more than 300 words and be accompanied by a CV. Please indicate for which seminar the abstract is intended. Submissions must be written in English and sent to j.m.iverson@cdh.leidenuniv.nl and j.s.easterday@cdh.leidenuniv.nl no later than 27 January 2014. The second event being hosted by the Grotius Center, Property and Investment in Contemporary Jus Post Bellum: Clarifying Norms, Principles and Practices is also seeking papers. This event...
22.12.13 | |

09 Mar

...could use to win the cyberwar with other countries, and discussed Argentina’s tactics in the NML v. Argentina sovereign bond litigation. Kristen Boon pointed out topics of interest at the Human Rights Council’s 22nd session, while Ken Anderson flagged the ongoing debate over at Lawfare and at Jens Ohlin’s Lieber Code about Ryan Goodman’s EJIL article on the power to kill or capture enemy combatants, as well as Jens’ response essay on SSRN. We also had a wide range of guest posts this week. In a post that unsurprisingly attracted...
09.03.13 | |

10 Apr

[Jens David Ohlin is Associate Professor of Law at Cornell University Law School.] This post is part of our symposium on the latest issue of the Leiden Journal of International Law. Other posts in this series can be found in the related posts below. I agree with almost everything in Darryl Robinson’s plea for a cosmopolitan liberal approach to international criminal justice. Robinson’s article sketches out the development of ICL scholarship, noting the beginnings of the field, followed by the liberal critique of early ICL development, and then the counter-critique...
10.04.13 | |

23 Mar

[Jens David Ohlin is Associate Professor of Law at Cornell Law School; he blogs at LieberCode] In his excellent essay, James Stewart advocates for a unitary model of perpetration. To the extent that this means the end of modes of liability, so be it says Stewart. We don’t need them. They codify distinctions that we don’t need, promote confusion over coherence, and so we should instead streamline the centrifugal doctrines into a single account of causal contribution. On the elegance scale, Stewart’s proposal should score a 10 from most judges....
23.03.12 | |

31 Jan

...of the hostage situation between ISIS and Jordan/Japan, Jens weighed in on hostages and human dignity. Jens also reported on yesterday’s decision at the ICTY Appeals Chamber, upholding genocide charges in the case of The Prosecutor v. Popovic et al. related to the massacre at Srebrenica in July, 1995. Duncan highlighted his newest paper, this time he’s written An Intersubjective Treaty Power and a guest post came in from Nimrod Karin, responding to Kevin’s critique of his Just Security posts (here and here), about whether Palestine’s joining the ICC amounted...
31.01.15 | |

04 Jun

[ Jens David Ohlin is an Associate Professor of Law at Cornell Law School; he blogs at LieberCode .] In April 2011, a group of legal scholars gathered at the University of Pennsylvania Law School for a conference on targeted killings. The idea was to bring together experts in diverse fields – international law, legal and moral philosophy, military law, and criminal law – into a single (or perhaps overlapping) conversation about the legality and morality of targeted killings. The outgrowth of that conference, Targeted Killings: Law and Morality in...
04.06.12 | |

19 Apr

[Jennifer Trahan is Associate Clinical Professor, at The Center for Global Affairs, NYU-SPS, and Chair of the American Branch of the International Law Association’s International Criminal Court Committee. The views expressed are those of the author.] Postings on Opinio Juris seem fairly squarely against the legality of the U.S. missile strike last week into Syria. Let me join Jens David Ohlin (blogging on Opinio Juris) and Harold Koh (blogging on Just Security) in making the contrary case. When NATO intervened in Kosovo in 1999, member states did not have UN...
19.04.17 | |

23 Sep

Back in 2012, I was pleased to receive an invitation to a conference that Jens, Kevin Govern, and Claire Finkelstein were hosting on the law and ethics of cyberwar. It was a great conversation; so great, in fact, that Jens and his colleagues were inspired to use it as the launching pad for this volume — Cyberwar: Law and Ethics for Virtual Conflicts. They asked me to write a chapter on an idea I’d had been thinking about since my first foray into the cyber arena back in 2007 —...
23.09.15 | |