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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....

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...

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....

29 Sep Weekend Roundup: September 22-28, 2012

...over, despite the April 3, 2012 update by the OTP. Another guest post, by Polina Levina and Kaveri Vaid, argued that the allegations of torture in a recent Human Rights Watch report qualify as war crimes under the Rome Statute, and are thus relevant for the OTP’s preliminary investigation into the situation in Afghanistan. Our journal symposia are also back after the Northern Hemisphere summer break. The Harvard International Law Journal kicked off with a symposium on “The Democratic Coup d’Etat“, an article by Ozan Varol. The article argues that...

10 Dec Weekday News Wrap: Monday, December 10, 2012

Today is International Human Rights Day; 64 years ago, the UN Declaration of Human Rights was signed. The Empire State Building in New York will be illuminated in blue today to honor the work of Human Rights Watch. Also today, and with the end of the year fast approaching, Amnesty International has released its year in human rights for 2012. The 18th Conference of the Parties to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change concluded in Doha, Qatar, with an agreement to extend the Kyoto Protocol until 2020, and on...

01 May Weekday News Wrap: Tuesday, May 1, 2012

...the speech on OJ. European leaders are threatening not to attend games in Ukraine, which is co-hosting the Euro 2012 football championship with Poland, if opposition leader Yulia Tymoshenko is not released. An Argentine envoy to the UK urged the British foreign minister to “give peace a chance” regarding the Falkland Islands. Soldiers of the Democratic Republic of the Congo clashed yesterday with forces loyal to General Bosco Ntaganda, who is wanted by the International Criminal Court for allegedly committing war crimes. Samoa will become a member of the World...

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...