Then try out this online International Law Quiz. Or this International Legal History Quiz. Let's drive up some of the numbers. Hat Tip: The aforementioned Space Law Probe ...
Even though it is a burgeoning field, Space Law doesn't always get the "air time" or recognition it deserves. Here are three blogs that make up for that. First, we at Opinio Juris want to welcome Res Communis, a new blog that is run by the National Center for Remote Sensing, Air, and Space Law at the University of Mississippi...
My colleague Tim Zick has a post over at Co-Op about the "cyber protest" in Second Life in response to the crackdown in Burma. Admittedly skeptical about such cyber-activism at the outset, Tim writes about whether "virtual world" protests "will lead to greater social and political activism in existing 'meatspace.'" Another aspect of cyber-activism is how "virtual world" protests...
YJIL has just posted the call for papers for the next Young Scholars' Conference. (Yale Law Students had guest blogged during the previous conference here.) I was on a faculty panel at last year's conference and was very impressed by the student presentations. It is a great opportunity for students who are interested in pursuing careers in international law. Here's...
The Newark Star-Ledger ran an article in its Sunday Edition on Baher Azmy, Mark Denbeaux, John Gibbons, and the Seton Hall Law School’s project on Guantanamo. As the article explains in its opening section:John Gibbons, a retired federal judge who taught law at Seton Hall for 24 years, won a landmark ruling from the U.S. Supreme Court that prisoners captured...
Remember the killer badgers and cyborg spy squirrels? Well, as they say, truth is stranger than fiction. Consider the following report from the EE Times:Cyborg insects with embedded microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) will run remotely controlled reconnaissance missions for the military, if its '"HI-MEMS" program succeeds. Hybrid-Insect MEMS--a program hatched earlier this year at the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency...
We want to thank Kristen Boon for a great two weeks of blogging with us. We look forward to her joining us for another guest stint in the near future. ...
Well, sort of. Here's a snippet from ABC News:United Nations weapons inspectors discovered six to eight vials of a dangerous chemical warfare agent, phosgene, as they were cleaning out offices at a U.N. building in New York, federal authorities tell the Blotter on ABCNews.com. The federal authorities said the office, in a U.N. building near headquarters, was being evacuated and the...
In a new essay at Jurist, Jordan Paust concludes "probably." Check it out and let us know what you think. ...
Over at NPR's Justice Talking blog, I have a post trying to tie together some ideas relating to Fourth Generation Warfare and the rule of law. Here's the opening:One of the tropes of the current Administration is that the Global War on Terror is a new kind of war and a new kind of war needs new rules. This has...
Here's a footnote from the Economist to the recent posts on the scramble for the Arctic:...
Edward Lucas, the Central and Eastern Europe correspondent for the Economist has an article in London’s Daily Mail (Hat tip: Geographic Travels) that sounds like it should be in the “Truth is stranger than fiction” file. It starts off with a discussion of how Russia is responding to its birth-rate that is well below the rate of renewal. ...
