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11 Jul

...the criminal offenses committed (or alleged to have been committed) by diplomats. Here’s how the BBC summarizes that sort of bad diplomatic behavior from 2012: [T]he Foreign Office was informed of 12 “serious offences” committed by people with diplomatic immunity in 2012. These are defined as offences which could carry 12 months or more in prison, as well as drink-driving and driving without insurance. He said 10 of the alleged offences were driving-related, including six for drink-driving – three by Russians. The non-driving offences alleged were abuse of a domestic...
11.07.13 | |

10 Jan

...at the Grotius Center of Leiden University on November 16, 2012. He then repeated it at the New York City Bar Association on November 29, 2012, where it also appeared as a talking point on his slide. I was present on both occasions. My notes state that he said "the Administration's policy is not to defeat the object and purpose of the Rome Statute," which is somewhat weaker than I may have suggested in my original posting (mea culpa). Yes, the Bush administration's note made clear that the US didn't...
10.01.13 | |

02 Apr

Daniel Julian, you're coming off as very ignorant here. The speed at which the ICJ approaches cases is set largely by the Parties. In this case, each Party requested ten months to prepare their first-round written submissions (see Order of 13 July 2010: Memorial in May 2011, Counter-Memorial in March 2012). No second-round submissions were requested, but then New Zealand requested to intervene in November 2012. The Court determined that issue in early 2013, and now New Zealand's written observations are due tomorrow (see Order of 6 February 2013), and...
02.04.13 | |

17 Feb

Chevron strikes back, and the pro-Ecuador NGOs are not happy about it. WASHINGTON, Feb. 17, 2012 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ — An “order” issued Thursday from a private investor arbitration panel purporting to freeze a nine-year environmental litigation against Chevron in Ecuador violates international law and will have little or no impact on any potential enforcement action against the oil giant in countries around the world, said representatives of the plaintiffs. The latest move by the three-person investor arbitration panel, issued after a secret, closed-door hearing over the weekend that barred...
17.02.12 | |

29 Aug

It is a draft platform, but these parts of the 2012 GOP Platform are certainly interesting. It appears to have strong language in favor of “American Exceptionalism” and American sovereignty. Under our Constitution, treaties become the law of the land. So it is all the more important that the Congress — the senate through its ratifying power and the House through its appropriating power — shall reject agreements whose long-range impact on the American family is ominous or unclear. These include the U.N. Convention on Women’s Rights, the Convention on...
29.08.12 | |

27 Aug

Seamus If the choice is peace, I supposed there's some consolation for those of us who believe in divine, cosmic, or karmic justice of some sort.... Seth Weinberger Julian: I'm not sure why you pose the choice as "peace versus justice." Is it just to insist on arresting and prosecuting Kony at the expense of ending the civil war? Is it not just to stop the atrocities by whatever means necessary? It may be distasteful to let Kony walk from his crimes, but if that's what it takes to end...
27.08.06 | |

03 Dec

The phenomenon of land grabbing involves powerful transnational economic actors, including corporations, national governments, sovereign wealth funds, and private equity funds, that have searched for empty lands in distant countries that can serve as sites for fuel and food production in the event of future price spikes. Typically, the foreign investors enter long-term leases with national governments for 25 or 50 years on a renewable basis. However, land rights are a thorny problem the center of the system. As Ruth Hall, a South African expert on Land Rights,...
03.12.12 | |

23 Apr

...stated[5] that “U.S. targeting practices, including lethal operations conducted with the use of unmanned aerial vehicles, comply with all applicable law, including the laws of war.” This is despite compelling evidence to the contrary, including evidence produced by NYU Law scholars. In 2010, for example, the U.N. Special Rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary, or arbitrary executions, Philip Alston, issued a report[6] that outlined why the U.S. drone program violates applicable international humanitarian and human rights laws.[7] Moreover, in 2012, Stanford Law School’s International Human Rights and Conflict Resolution Clinic, in partnership...
23.04.15 | |

26 Jul

Mitt Romney is holding a fundraiser this evening in London. (Here’s a nice scene-setter.) Almost quaint how he promises not to criticize Obama while abroad, in the tradition of politics stoppping at the water’s edge (as if physical location still mattered in the context of completely transnationalized media). Three quick thoughts: 1. This kind of extraterritorial campaigning is becoming routine. Lots of US citizens live abroad (estimates of as many as seven million), they can vote come November, and (way more importantly) they have a lot of money....
26.07.12 | |

04 Apr

...national prosecutions, I hope that the Pre-Trial Chamber will be a little more patient too. James Gathii Thanks Kevin and John for this illuminating discussion. I do not want to weigh on what the correct characterization of the Appeals Chamber decision is here. My five cents is that the ongoing skirmishes between the two partners in the coalition government in Kenya about the reform agenda are likely to affect the pace and outcome of the reform agenda. More significantly, the already heated succession politics of the 2012 presidential electoral cycle...
04.04.11 | |

08 Oct

Julian beat me to Eric Posner’s new Slate article on the legality of drone strikes. I don’t agree with everything in it, but I think it’s notable that Posner — echoing his sometime co-author Jack Goldsmith — rejects the idea that international law permits self-defense against a non-state actor whenever a state is “unable or unwilling” to prevent the NSA from using its territory as a base for attacks. That rejection emerges clearly in the following passages: The U.N. Charter permits countries to use military force abroad only...
08.10.12 | |

21 Aug

...is not currently facing any criminal charges. There is more here than meets the eye. The extreme actions that Britain is thinking of going through - the thought of storming the embassy - puts question to your claims. <b>This might make sense if the US was seeking his extradition (which it isn’t),</b> <I>February 28, 2012, New York – Leaks published today from Stratfor, a private intelligence corporation, indicate the United States Department of Justice has issued a secret, sealed indictment against Julian Assange, the founder of Wikileaks.</I> http://ccrjustice.org/newsroom/press-releases/ccr-condemns-reported-sealed-indictment-against-wikileaks-founder-julian-assange <b>or if...
21.08.12 | |