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07 Mar

“Karin Calvo-Goller has undoubtedly invested much time and effort into this book, which – but for regrettably sloppy editing – might well serve as a first systematic introduction to the procedural issues confronting the ICC. What is still missing is a book that might help to resolve these issues.” It’s not the best book review one could hope for, but neither is it the worst. Undoubtedly it would have gone unnoticed by almost everyone if she had used better judgment. (Before this story, how many of you have ever read...
07.03.11 | |

24 Nov

I am grateful to Professor Van Schaack for her thoughtful and considered response. It strikes me as an entirely fair criticism that – albeit in a short commentary focusing on the standards governing the use of force by governments – I neglected to explore fully issues of combatant status in non-international armed conflicts and, more interestingly, belligerent nexus issues. The methodology adopted was to avoid speculation by focusing on the facts at hand at time of writing and this limited the scope of the piece. Professor Van Schaack is correct...
24.11.10 | |

21 Apr

...Force Law, the re-named Response to Situations of Important Influence Law, and the Response to Situations of Armed Attack and Existential Threats Law. It is also reflected in some lesser remarked Cabinet Orders (such as the Government Response to Unlawful Landing of Armed Groups on Remote Islands, Cabinet Order of May 14, 2015). Without getting too deeply into the details the key point is that the overall change would appear to lower the threshold for the use of force, as that term is understood in Article 2(4) of the U.N....
21.04.16 | |

18 Oct

Patrick S. O'Donnell I'm especially interested in the Criddle and Fox-Decent paper and thus look forward to Monday's symposium, although I was surprised to see no reference (perhaps I missed it) to Larry May's excellent discussion of jus cogens norms in his recent book, Crimes Against Humanity: A Normative Account (2005). There's much in his book relevant to the article's argument. Interestingly, in another book, War Crimes and Just War (2007), May uses a fiduciary model as part of a larger discussion of the principle of humane treatment to ground...
18.10.09 | |

17 Jun

I wanted to thank all of our participants for a wonderful “insta-symposium” on Boumediene. I certainly learned a tremendous amount from our guests and greatly appreciate their willingness to participate and thoughtfully engage. I wanted to end by addressing some of the comments expressed concerning the format of these insta-symposia, especially on the issue of diversity. In organizing this event, I took pains to find experts in the field who provided diversity in terms of viewpoint (left and right), seniority (young scholars and seasoned veterans), professional expertise (historians, advocates, military...
17.06.08 | |

10 Sep

Benjamin Davis I must admit that I am a bit surprised of the dating in the post-War period. Appeals to human rights in the ante-bellum period as part of the transnational battle against the Atlantic slave trade are well-known. I look forward to reading the book. Best, Ben Kenneth Anderson Well, it was odd, because while I was reading the Nation article, I saw out of the corner of my eye Mark Janis' book on the history of international law in the US. Jordan Response... What is stated about the...
10.09.10 | |

23 Sep

...by phone. It is Yom Kippur that day, so I realize with apologies that some of the folks most vital to this topic will be missing, but there will be video posted at Heritage at some point soon after the event. Good news is that the Hoover Institution, which published the book, is co-hosting, and is making complimentary copies of the book available at the event, which I’ll be happy to sign. And finally my thanks to Heritage Foundation senior fellow Brett Schaefer, who will host and moderate the event....
23.09.12 | |

31 Dec

Oxford has sent me the initial version of the book cover. Here it is: The painting, “The Red Stairway,” is by Ben Shahn, a Lithuanian-born American artist who painted between the 1920s and the 1950s. In 1942 and 1943, Shahn created propaganda posters for the Office of War Information (OWI); his poster about the destruction of Lidice is an absolute masterpiece. The OWI considered a number of his other posters to be insufficiently patriotic — i.e., too overtly left-wing — and refused to issue them. “The Red Stairway” itself was...
31.12.10 | |

26 Jun

Flying around on various airplanes, I’ve been reading a couple of books on topics in legal history that I’ve found enjoyable and intellectually profitable. One is Stephen Neff’s Justice in Blue and Gray: A Legal History of the Civil War. I have benefitted greatly from Professor Neff’s earlier books in international law history, War and the Law of Nations and The Rights and Duties of Neutrals, and the Civil War book is no exception. Professor Neff (whom I had the pleasure of meeting earlier this summer as he is visiting...
26.06.10 | |

08 Dec

In response to Julian Ku’s post here on the potential legal justifications for the U.S. to use force against Syria in the event Assad turns to chemical weapons, Daniel Bethlehem sent along the following. Daniel Bethlehem practices in London and served as Principal Legal Advisor to the UK Foreign and Commonwealth Office from 2006-2011. Julian Ku suggests that “[a]ssuming no Security Council approval, I think the U.S. would be in technical violation of the UN Charter [were it to intervene in response to an apparent Syrian chemical weapons threat]. Although...
08.12.12 | |

03 Jun

...Gittings, I am so tired of reading your nonsense. You have no clue as to the law or the complexity of legal issues. You embarrass yourself with each posting that you make, but you lack the basic knowledge to recognize how incredilbly ignorant that you are. You take no hints or the lack of response for what they mean. You present no real points worthy of response or debate. There are no Nazis here, no fascists. That you see them only shows your ignorance of the law and history. Anyone...
03.06.09 | |

01 Aug

...say they have no other choice, except to take the law into their own hands. It gets tiresome to hear platitudinous remarks to the effect that no nation on Earth can tolerate shelling of its citizens, when no other country on Earth would tolerate what the Zionist regimes have done to the Palestinians interned in the Gaza Strip and the West Bank enclaves, including indiscriminate attacks and shelling on a much wider scale than Israel has ever suffered. Response...I generally agree that Israel’s response is being, at the very least,...
01.08.14 | |