Carmen Cisneros and Michael Aragon were married in 1987, when Cisneros was 15 and Aragon was 19. They were married for 13 years. Following their divorce, Cisneros (a Mexican national) filed suit against Aragon for statutory rape. But rather than rely simply on domestic law, Cisneros includes a claim for a violation of international law under the...
While we are on the topic of Nazis, a more contemporary story: recently discovered documents have reignited controversy in the Netherlands over whether KLM played an active role in helping Nazi war criminals flee Europe at the end of WW II.KLM, Royal Dutch Airlines, has always denied that it had a policy of assisting Nazis to escape justice at the...
You see it in nearly every movie about WW II: one the one side, you have the evil Nazi fanatics, Hitler and Goering and the like; on the other side, you have Erwin Rommel, the Desert Fox, a gifted tank commander far removed from the genocidal machinations at Wannsee. Think Patton. As it turns out, the truth is a bit...
The NY Times fronts this interesting piece today on the rising number of Mexican consulates in the US — now up to 47, with recent additions including cities not traditionally hosting large consular communities, like Little Rock, Raleigh, and St Paul. But that's where Mexican immigrants are going, and the Mexican government is following. The consulates provide a...
There are over 75 members of the press who are here at Pepperdine Law School covering the Floyd Landis doping arbitration. They include the BBC, CNN, ABC, NBC, CBS, NPR, AP, RAI, Reuters, ESPN, LA Times, NY Times, Sports Illustrated, the Guardian, USA Today, Velonews, Road Magazine, and Cycling News. But there is one group of reporters sitting...
OK, here’s one to ponder: a Chinese company, Anshe Chung Studios, has just issued a press release concerning its construction of a financial system that world support investment across the boundaries of virtual worlds on the Internet, such as Second Life and Entropia. Here’s how they put it:Anshe Chung Studios is preparing to launch a virtual financial market, financial...
Luis Moreno-Ocampo, the ICC Prosecutor, announced today that he is opening a formal investigation into the situation in the Central African Republic. The Prosecutor's decision marks the first time that the Court has investigated a situation in which sexual crimes against women outnumber — and significantly outnumber — killings:The Office has analysed allegations of serious crimes perpetrated in CAR,...
Last week’s report of a major shipwreck treasure recovery had me wondering about what the law is here. From a pretty quick study, it looks like this is mostly CIL, at least as far as sites outside territorial waters and the contiguous zone are concerned (that is, more than 24 miles from shore, as this one apparently is), in...
Former President Carter’s criticism of the Bush Administration is the big news of the weekend. You can listen to the interview here. This is what Carter said in the interview: Carter: “I interrelate my condemnation and criticism of this unnecessary invasion with the ministry of Christ as the Prince of Peace. So that’s what I try...
This from Harvard's Einer Elhauge, guest-blogging over at VC. Elhauge describes his new casebook, Global Antitrust Law & Economics:We put US regulations and cases side by side with the EC regulations and cases that regulate the same conduct on global markets, without suggesting that one of them is more important or necessary to understanding basic antitrust law and that...
A little over a year ago, I noted that a Dutch court had sentenced Frans van Anraat, a chemicals dealer, to 15 years in prison for selling Iraq a key component of the mustard gas that Saddam used against the Kurds during the Anfal campaign. Last week, a Dutch appeals court upheld van Anraat's conviction for complicity in war...
That's my hunch. It looks too much like the 1986 deal, coupling an amnesty with enhanced enforcement, the latter of which of course utterly failed. The deal announced yesterday would make pretty much all undocumented aliens arriving in the US before January 1 eligible for legalized status, under an indefinitely renewable "Z" visa program. That amounts to...
