So, after much prodding, I have officially joined Facebook. I even have three friends — which means that I'm only 229,997 behind a Facebook group that recently organized world-wide protest against FARC, the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Columbia:What began as a group of young people venting their rage at the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) on Facebook, an...
Further to Julian's post on Friday, the ICC has already made clear that it has no intention of lifting the warrants:The office of the prosecutor of International Criminal Court Thursday insisted arrest warrants for Lord's Resistance Army, or LRA, rebels in Uganda remain in effect following news Kampala has agreed to set up national courts to handle LRA crimes. "The office...
Interested in learning more about the political farce that the military commissions have become? Run, don't walk, to Scott Horton's fantastic "The Great Guantanamo Puppet Theater" at Harpers.com. On these issues, Scott (like Marty Lederman) is always an invaluable read. ...
Wow — he must really think the military commissions are unfair:...
"Accidental" slurring of the Democrats -- not just for Fox News anymore: Hat-Tip: Crooks & Liars. ...
At a joint press conference with Paul Kagame yesterday, President Bush was asked whether he would be willing to send U.S. troops to Darfur to help stop the systematic violence that is being committed there. Here, in relevant part, was his response:I would say it's like — as I explained to this fellow here — that one of the...
I cast my overseas primary ballot last week for Obama. If only I knew then what I know now -- that Obama is obviously the child of communists and may well be a communist himself. How do I know that? Because, as Lisa Schiffren at the ever-reliable National Review Online explains, he was born of mixed-race parents...
Last week, I argued that the CIA waterboarders would not necessarily be entitled to the defense of entrapment by estoppel even if they relied on the Office of Legal Counsel's insistence that waterboarding was legal. As I pointed out, the defense requires reliance to be reasonable -- and a court cannot simply infer reasonableness from the fact that the...
I think it's safe to say that Marty Lederman has been one of the blogosphere's most passionate, articulate, and persuasive critics of the Office of Legal Counsel's authorization of waterboarding. So I was very surprised to read his latest post on the subject, in which he argues not only that the CIA officers who actually conducted the waterboarding would...
The ICC has a third suspect in custody. Not surprisingly, he's another Congolese rebel:Mathieu Ngudjolo Chui, a Congolese national and alleged former leader of the National integrationist Front (FNI) and currently a Colonel in the National Army of the Government of the Democratic Republic of the Congo [Forces armées de la RDC/ Armed Forces of the DRC ] (FARDC),...
When I was in grad school, my friends and I loved to play the "alive or dead" game, in which one of us would name an intellectual and the others would then try to guess whether that person was alive or dead. My ace in the hole was always Claude Levi-Strauss, the great structuralist French philosopher. My friends...
If you do, the University of Auckland Faculty of Law is hiring. We're looking to fill two positions, one at the lecturer/senior lecturer level (the equivalent of assistant professor and associate professor with tenure) and one at the associate professor level (the equivalent of a full professor without a chair). We are primarily interested in academics who specialize...
