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28 Jun ILO Tribunal Finds Against ICC in the Libya Detention Debacle
This is a major development, one that I hope does not get lost in the welter of commentary on the Bemba acquittal. If you recall, in June 2012 the Libyan government detained four ICC officials who were in Zintan on official Court business: Melinda Taylor from the Office of Public Counsel for the Defence (OPCD), who had been provisionally appointed Saif Gaddafi’s defence counsel; two officials from the Registry; and a translator, Helene Assaf. Libya charged all four with various criminal offences and ultimately detained them for 27 days. About...03 May Is Libya “Able” to Prosecute Saif and Al-Senussi?
...government official was present at the meeting. By the same token, however, the militia’s willingness to allow a government official to be present at the interview also does not mean that it will be willing to hand Saif over to the NTC for trial. Expect the OTP to focus on that issue in its response to the motion. Al-Senussi’s case is even more interesting. The motion treats his extradition from Mauritania as little more than a fait accompli (para.30): On 17 March 2012 Mr Al-Senussi was arrested in Mauritania. The...16 Nov MJIL Symposium: The Pacific Solution Mark II: Responsibility Shifting in International Refugee Law
...its Expert Panel in August 2012. In order to do so it was necessary to amend the Migration Act 1958 (‘Migration Act’) to remove the protections which the High Court relied upon in M70 to invalidate the declaration concerning Malaysia. In my view the amendments to the Migration Act effected by passage of the Migration Legislation Amendment (Regional Processing and Other Measures) Act 2012 (‘Act’), and the subsequent transfer of putative refugees from Australia to Nauru, place Australia at risk of violation of the Refugee Convention. Before outlining my core...
20 Aug Muddying the Waters Still Further: A Response to Steven Kay and Joshua Kern
...of the Arab State in the UN Partition Plan remained vested in the Palestinian people in Gaza and was shared between Jordan and the Palestinian people in the West Bank between 1948 and 1988. In 1988, title was vested exclusively in the Palestinian people over the territories that Israel had occupied since June 1967. The resolution adopted by the General Assembly on 29 November 2012 conferred observer statehood on Palestine and amounted to an act of collective recognition by those states that voted in favour of that resolution. The recognition...17 Feb American Bar Association’s 7th Annual Homeland Security Law Institute
[Vince Vitowsky has asked me to post this announcement from Joe D. Whitley about an upcoming ABA two-day event that might interest readers.] Thursday, March 22, 2012-Friday, March 23, 2012 Capital Hilton 1001 16th Street NW Washington, District of Columbia, United States 20036 As Program Chair and Vice-Chair of the American Bar Association’s Administrative Law and Regulatory Practice Section, I would like to invite you to attend the 7th Annual Homeland Security Law Institute. We are honored to have with us this year Former U.S. Attorney General Michael Mukasey, Former...05 Apr The Syria Attacks: Haven’t We Had These Debates Already?
...tragic as this latest attack is, I also feel like I am in a time-warp that has sent me back to 2012-13 when similar chemical weapons attacks led to similar global outrage which led to an American debate about whether to launch military attacks on Syria. President Obama famously decided to launch such strikes (without Congress or the UN) and then changed his mind and sought congressional consent. He never got that, but he did work out an agreement with Russia and the Assad government to remove Syria’s chemical weapons...
10 Mar Do Not Over-simplify Our Story: Venezuelans on the Human Rights Crisis (Part I)
...rights mechanisms have provided important support, but their impact has been limited by enforcement constraints. Historically, the Inter-American Commission and Court of Human Rights -established under the American Convention on Human Rights- were instrumental in supporting victims of human rights abuses in Venezuela for decades. However, in 2012 Venezuela withdrew from the Convention, in an attempt to prevent its citizens from accessing those mechanisms. In my family’s case, we were able to submit an individual complaint to the UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention. In May 2012, they ruled in...11 Dec Autonomous Weapon Systems and Regulation – A Brief Bibliography
...the definitions of autonomy and automation, I included in the bibliography a very useful article appearing in 2013 from William Marra and Sonia McNeil, “Understanding ‘The Loop’: Regulating the Next Generation of War Machines,” 36 Harvard Journal of Law and Public Policy 3 (2013), which also appeared as a working paper in the Lawfare Research Paper Series 1-2012. That’s quite a flurry of activity. I’ll also add to the list an article on December 3, 2012 in the Guardian by the prominent artificial intelligence scientist Noel Sharkey, who has been...