Search: palestine icc
27 Nov Weekday News Wrap: Tuesday, November 27, 2012
Australia will abstain in the upcoming UN vote on whether to grant non-member state status to Palestine. The body of Yasser Arafat will be exhumed in Ramallah today, to determine whether his death was the result of polonium poisoning. Ehud Barak, Israel’s Minister of Defence, has announced his retirement from politics. A map of China on new Chinese passports is controversial with its neighbours as it incorporates disputed areas in the South China Sea. Several neighbours are refusing to stamp the passports or are stamping them with their own version...29 Sep Weekend Roundup: September 22-28, 2012
...speech as prepared for delivery. Further on UN appearances, Kevin wondered whether Benjamin Netanyahu’s “red line” about Iran’s nuclear bomb could still be taken seriously. Other posts also dealt with Iran. Kevin asked why progressive bloggers were so willing to overlook the MEK’s involvement in the assassination of Iranian scientists when claiming that the organization has not been involved in terrorist attacks for years, and Deborah Pearlstein wrote about new drone technology reportedly developed by Iran. In a guest post, Chantal Meloni argued why the Palestine-ICC saga is far from...12 Feb The Shift from Proportionality to Necessity and an Indirect Comment on Gaby Blum’s Article
...one hand, and targeted killing directed against terrorist suspects, on the other. In the former case, I do not believe that we can or should move away from homogenous status of combatant; any other standard will overreach the technology now or in the foreseeable future. I suppose that one could imagine that in the very special circumstances of the Israeli-Palestine conflict, one could see on both the sides of regular soldiers and non-state actors, it would be possible to imagine a genuinely necessity based standard, beyond the fact of status....
21 Dec The Forcible Transfer of Civilians in Gaza: Conditions, Necessity and Legality
...Although the fulfilment of this obligation comes as a second step after ensuring the safe passage and safety of the evacuees, this obligation does not appear to have been met either. Third, the evacuation of the civilian population must be carried out within the occupied territory. Israel is internationally recognized as the occupying power in Palestine – the West Bank, including East Jerusalem, and the Gaza Strip (See UNGA, A/ES-10/L.25, para. 5, ICRC). The UNGA has rejected any Israeli attempts to forcibly transfer the Palestinian civilian population as Israel has...07 Sep Events and Announcements: September 7, 2014
Call for papers The Faculty of Law of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and the Columbia Law School invite the submission of written proposals for an international conference on the international law legacies of the Palestine mandate, to be held in Jerusalem on June 21-22, 2015, and for a subsequent publication. The full call for papers can be found here. Researchers interested in addressing these and related questions are invited to respond to this call for papers with a 1-2 page proposal for an article and presentation, along with a...04 Apr Weekday News Wrap: Thursday, April 4, 2013
...on a man convicted of paralyzing a friend in an attack 10 years ago. In a significant step forward, the 49-strong group of Least Developed Countries has announced that they are willing to take on binding commitments to reduce greenhouse gas emissions A human rights group report alleges that Sudan officials have been committing war crimes, crimes against humanity and acts of torture in the border area near South Sudan since 2011. An exchange of fire between Israel and Palestine threatens the Gaza ceasefire from last November. Israeli troops have...
31 Aug Symposium: Saving Critical International Legal Pedagogy from Formalists, Reactionaries, and Pandemics
...Robert A. Williams Jr.’s quip is biting: “They are law professors, after all, so they don’t listen to other people’s stories.” But the diagnosis of the three scholars in this section is more insidious, still. In this age of virtual lecturing, asynchronous recordings, casualisation, surveillance, and punishment, critical legal scholars are at risk. We are, to borrow a fitting adage, handing them the rope with which to hang us. Brendan Ciarán Browne exploits his ‘above-the-bar’ privilege to elicit awareness of the dangers of teaching about Palestine in the virtual lecture...
23 Jun The Wagner Group’s Alleged Weaponization of Social Media in West Africa: How Sharing Degrading Content May Constitute an International Crime
has already been opened at the ICC, if the acts in question are connected, it is likely that opening a case regarding them would be more easily justified in terms of gravity. Nevertheless, the serious degradation of the victims, the severe mental suffering inflicted on those who may know they are being filmed and their families who see the footage, and the fact that similar acts have been prosecuted as war crimes on their own in domestic jurisdictions demonstrate that the gravity threshold should be met. Should the ICC decide...