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12 Apr Two ASIL Calls for Papers Closing Next Week!

Two calls for papers for ASIL events are closing on April 15 and April 20 Second Annual ASIL Research Forum October 20-21, 2012, Athens, GA The American Society of International Law calls for submissions of scholarly paper proposals for the ASIL Research Forum to be held at the University of Georgia School of Law on October 20-21, 2012. The Research Forum, a Society initiative introduced in 2011, aims to provide a setting for the presentation and focused discussion of works-in-progress by Society members. All ASIL members are invited to attend...

08 May Weekday News Wrap: Tuesday, May 8, 2012

...in 13 years, refusing to renew the visa for an Al Jazeera correspondent. A Colombian drug lord, Jose Antonio Calle, has surrendered to US agents in Aruba on charges of distributing 25 tons of cocaine. Colombian rebel group FARC has confirmed it is holding a French journalist hostage. The informal “coalition of ambition” talks on climate change in Brussels reveal the division between EU Member States on how to divide contributions to the Green Climate Fund, established at the UNFCCC COP in Durban last December, after 2012. In a speech...

02 Dec Upcoming Events: December 2, 2012

Upcoming Events The next session of the Joint International Humanitarian Law Forum takes place on December 5, 2012 at the IDC Radzyner School of Law. Dr. Ben Clarke will discuss his new article “Beyond the Call of Duty: Integration of International Humanitarian Law in Video Games and Battlefield Training Simulators”. More information can be found here. Calls for Papers The International Community Law Review has issued a call for papers for a special issue of its 2013 volume, to be edited by Professor Duncan French (University of Lincoln) and Dr....

12 Oct Weekday News Wrap: Friday, October 12, 2012

The European Union has won the 2012 Nobel Peace Prize for uniting the continent in the face of the ongoing economic crisis. The 10th anniversary of the Bali bombings is being remembered in Bali, Indonesia, and in Australia. The NY Times reports how Indonesian counter-terrorism forces still battle local militant groups. Human rights activists in Iran are reportedly beaten, raped and sleep deprived, according to a UN rights report released yesterday. In France, prosecutors have uncovered plans for the largest terrorist bomb attack since the GIA attacks in the mid-1990s....

17 Mar Weekend Roundup: March 10-16, 2012

...of the Leiden Journal of International Law, two (1, 2) examining the ICJ’s Nicaragua judgment 25 years on and a third on the modes of liability in international criminal law. We hope you feel inspired by what you have read on Opinio Juris this week. If you are, the call for papers for the International Law Weekend 2012 to which Peggy McGuinness drew our attention here may interest you. We’d like to thank all our guest contributors for their efforts this week and wish all our readers a nice weekend!...

24 Apr Weekday News Wrap: Tuesday, April 24, 2012

...to return to their homes for a decade. In a bit of good news, the number of global piracy incidents is down by almost a third in the first quarter of 2012; however, the risk in Nigeria grows. Bosnia has charged three men with terrorism for the attacks on the US Embassy in Sarajevo last year. UN Office on Drugs and Crime head, Yury Fedotov, said that global crime is one of the world’s “top-20 economies.” At least one source is reporting that North Korea will be ready “soon” to...

13 Nov Weekday News Wrap: Tuesday, November 13, 2012

...18 new countries, one of which is the United States, to a three-year term on the Human Rights Council beginning January 1, 2013. The Appeals Chamber of the ICTY has announced that the judgment in Prosecutor v. Gotovina & Markac will be issued on 16 November 2012. NATO has said it is “ready” to help Turkey deal with Syria. Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan said his country should consider bringing back the death penalty, a decade after Ankara abolished capital punishment as part of reforms aimed at European Union membership....

05 Jan Holiday Roundup: December 22, 2012 – January 4, 2013

...suggestion that Palestine could limit an ICC referral to the situation in the West Bank, Kevin advanced legal and political arguments against the notion that a self-referral could be geographically limited. Further on the ICC, Jelia Sane contributed a guest post reflecting on the Court’s first acquittal. The end of 2012 inspired Chris to look towards future areas of (international) law in 2013 and beyond, focusing in particular on the need for regulation to deal with the impact of technological change, such as flying cars and 3D printing. Ken has...

19 Jul Weekday News Wrap: Thursday, July 19, 2012

...arrested this morning in Hungary. The American Civil Liberties Union and the Center for Constitutional Rights have filed a lawsuit against the US Government regarding the deaths of Anwar al-Awlaki, Samir Khan and Abdulrahman Al-Awlaki, three American citizens killed in Yemen drone strikes last fall. As Kevin Jon Heller has pointed out and analyzed on Opinio Juris, Mali has asked the ICC to investigate atrocities that have been going on there since January 2012. China has strengthened its ties to Africa by promising $20 billion in loans over the next...

23 Jun Weekend Roundup: June 16-22, 2012

...Roger Alford discussed how extraterritorial application of the US Foreign Corrupt Practices Act could jumpstart anti-corruption prosecution in other OECD countries, and Julian Ku posted about Germany v Greece in the Euro 2012. Peter Spiro asked whether the pending Supreme Court ruling on Arizona’s SB1070 will make any difference and whether Julian Assange will live out his days in the Ecuadorian Embassy in London. Peter also pointed to the plight of persons of South Sudanese descent residing in Sudan who have become stateless after South Sudan’s secession. As always, Kevin...

04 Nov A Response to Mark Drumbl

of that argument? Are the Court’s prosecutor and judges competent to assess the chances of Uganda apprehending Kony absent a peace agreement, or the probability that Kony will honor his side of the bargain? How should the analysis balance the incommensurable goals of protecting human life and pursuing criminal accountability? One irony of a more permissive complementarity test is that it requires adjudicating these difficult determinations through precisely the sort of conventional trial procedures that Mark would deemphasize for more traditional questions of criminal guilt and innocence. Once the door...

03 Nov Weekend Roundup: October 27 – November 2, 2012

This week on Opinio Juris, our thoughts are with our US East Coast readers affected by Superstorm Sandy. We hope you and your loved ones are safe and sound. Posting was light this week because of the storm, which forced us to postpone a symposium on Duncan Hollis’ edited volume, The Oxford Guide to Treaties, to next week. But Sandy also provided inspiration for a few substantive posts. Kristen Boon highlighted recent developments in international disaster law and Peter Spiro built on this asking whether in the long...