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01 Dec Weekend Roundup: November 25-30, 2012
This week on Opinio Juris, Kevin Jon Heller wrote about Niger’s offer to extradite Saadi Gaddafi to the ICC, should this be requested. Kevin also discussed the conditions attached by the UK for a vote in favour of Palestine’s “non-member state” bid in the UN General Assembly. The requirement that the Palestinian authority does not apply for ICC or ICJ membership most likely proved to be a dealbreaker, as the UK ultimately abstained. Following the vote, Kevin argued that Palestine can accept the ICC’s jurisdiction retroactively by making a simple...
20 Apr ICC Sanctions Symposium: From Subtle Opposition to Active Marginalisation–U.S. Sanctions Against I.C.C. Officials in Context, and Future Implications
...consider as ICC’s expansive reach of jurisdiction. It is also noteworthy that the Security Council has not taken sufficient steps to ensure cooperation in compliance with the two resolutions referring Sudan and Libya to the ICC (see, Aregawi). This is in addition to not providing financial support to the Court for the referred situations. After years of selecting situations primarily on the African continent, the Court has in the past few years started focussing on other situations in other parts of the world. What may have been a turning point...09 Apr White America Fights for Democracy
...openly pro-Palestine Ivy Leaguers. And so, “wait a minute!”, the white Progressive mind thinks, “I am also pro-Palestine Ivy Leaguer!” There is thus something very self-serving brewing just barely under the surface of the urgency with which this fight for US democracy is taking shape – and it is worth exploring further. As the white Progressive elites claw themselves to the bulwarks of due process and fundamental rights and declare that the battle for the soul of America has begun, they also seem to ignore that for many others, the...16 Feb Another Dangerous Lawsuit — This One Involving a Former U.S. President
According to the Jerusalem Post, five purchasers of Jimmy Carter’s new book Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid have filed a $5 million lawsuit in federal court in New York against Carter and Simon & Schuster, the book’s publisher. The lawsuit alleges that the book violates New York consumer-protection laws by claiming to be a work of non-fiction (my emphasis): The five plaintiffs in the suit, readers of the book, want their lawsuit, which seeks compensatory and punitive damages, to be deemed a class action, meaning that the plaintiffs would be seen...
27 May Affective Justice Symposium: Affected Justice–Using Criminal Justice as a Political Tool
...pursue justice at all costs for the victims of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict – to be fair, there have been sporadic calls for movement, but these have been few and far between and not nearly as vociferous as the calls for justice for the victims where the not so powerful are implicated. In respect of the situation in Palestine, legal technical arguments about doubts concerning the statehood of Palestine are able to considerably slow down movement. In that conflict, as is the case in other situations that may implicate the powerful...