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23 Aug Ruth Wedgwood on the Lockerbie Release, and the Politics of Security Council Resolutions
...served as a signature in the crime. Undaunted, Libya may still try to insinuate that it was some other group–say Iran, operating alone or through the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine. That, of course, is not an especially exculpatory choice, since after their expulsion from Lebanon, parts of the Palestinian leadership took up residence in Libya. Second, and equally dismaying, Libya may read this triumph as a certified all-purpose “get out of jail free” card–absolving it of a broad swath of bad acts. With oil reserves at play...
28 May Overheard Amidst the Bombs
...groups have no business resorting to violence in the first place. So I’m afraid they can never get it fully right even if they wanted to. Funny how that works, isn’t it? But the state, ah well that’s a different thing. The state is a thing of beauty you know, it has courts, it can ratify treaties, it can be internationally responsible… CMP: … Precisely. I seem to remember there was some concern about Palestine being denied statehood at every turn… LOAC expert (looking genuinely puzzled): You’d have to go...
14 Jun In Serbia, Justice Overruled: 25 Years after NATO Intervention, a Pass for Atrocity Crimes
[Fred Abrahams covered the Kosovo conflict for Human Rights Watch . He wrote the book Modern Albania and co-wrote A Village Destroyed: War Crimes in Kosovo . Marija Ristic covered Serbian war crimes trials as a journalist for local and international media.] This April, a modest courtroom in Belgrade, Serbia, offered a lens into the global debate on justice for atrocity crimes. The case dealt with mass killings in Kosovo committed 25 years ago but the topic has relevance for Sudan, Ukraine, Israel/Palestine and other conflicts today. In the dimly...
24 Jan International Law’s Invisible Frames Symposium: A Call for Critical Self-Reflection
...– the manner in which issues or problems are presented shapes our decision-making process; it impacts how legal norms are negotiated, interpreted, and applied (chapter 2). This is something we are no doubt intuitively aware of – the way we present a problem will have an impact the outcome –, but which we perhaps do not think about consciously. Being aware of how these frames work can, amongst others, provide insight on legal strategies. For instance, if Palestine wants to convincingly argue before the ICJ that the monetary gold principle...24 Oct Humanity’s Law: A Few Opening Thoughts
...in the Balkans? How about the intervention in Libya? Did the international legal community jump the gun in threatening Ghadaffi and his family with criminal indictments, taking off the table options such as amnesties or exile that might have led to an earlier and less bloody regime change in Libya? Have the competing allegations of war crimes and humanitarian violations made in harder rather than easier to have meaningful peace talks between Israel and Palestine, distracting from the underlying political claims at issue? I look forward to hearing your views....03 Nov Zivotofsky and the Disaggregated State
...policy the wrong way, not knowing that Congress is out to lunch and that US policy has not changed. That’s where the risk comes in. It’s what makes this case less than ideal for adapting the Constitution to the new global dynamic. The Middle East is a throwback to the old world. Arguments like Noah Feldman’s here still make a lot of sense when it comes to Israel-Palestine, even if they don’t make so much sense anywhere else. But the risk may be small enough that the Court is willing...29 Oct Weekday News Wrap: Monday, October 29, 2012
...pictures of restricted Israeli areas. Iran also claims that it has developed much more advanced drone technology than the Iranian drone launched by Hezbollah and shot down by Israeli forces earlier this month. EU governments are set to debate spending cuts of 50 billion euro later this week. A recent poll showed that an overwhelming majority of Catalans would like a referendum on independence from Spain. Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas is going ahead with his plan of seeking upgraded observer status for Palestine in the UN General Assembly next month....
26 Apr Symposium on Boyd van Dijk’s Preparing for War: The Geneva Conventions and the Future of International Humanitarian Law
...pressure from the ICRC and France (and given the absence of supporters of the arch-occupier paradigm in the Conference), rather than blocking the debate, the UK “started thinking about how to use it for its own purposes while attenuating its effects on Britain’s interests in the context of growing East-West tensions and the violent insurgency in Palestine” (p. 75). In order to achieve progress, the ICRC, in turn, sought to balance these concerns with the human rights demands of Nazi victims. The result was a draft that incorporated “only a...
06 Apr What the IHRP Hiring Scandal Tells us About Intersectional Privilege in Canadian Legal Institutions
...could better hold us legally liable if we went public with information about wrongdoing we perceived to be in the public interest. Finally, the consequences speak for themselves: Dr. Azarova has still lost her job; I as a person of colour have lost my job in order to truthfully bring details of this incident to light; Palestinian rights and international law with respect to the Israel/Palestine situation are now demonstrably a taboo subject in the law school; and the powerful white men who are at the heart of this impropriety...
11 Jun The Involvement of Supporting States in International Armed Conflicts, A Practical Approach
[Jérôme de Hemptinne is an Assistant Professor at Utrecht University] Several posts have been devoted to the delicate question of whether Western States could be implicated in an international armed conflict (IAC) against Russia because of the military, financial, and intelligence support they provide to Ukrainian authorities (see here, here, here, and here). The same question could also be raised regarding the assistance furnished by the United States and some European States to Israel: could this make these States ipso facto parties to an IAC between Israel and Palestine –...