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17 Jun Understanding the Bolivian Coup: Latin American Democracy and the Cold War Paradigm
...of a new kind of coup, where opposition forces manipulate existing law to secure the ouster of an unwanted leader. Variants of these “soft coups” were staged in the so-called “impeachments” of Paraguay’s Fernando Lugo in 2012 and Brazil’s Dilma Rousseff in 2016. Similarly, a hostile Congress unsuccessfully attempted to unseat Peru’s Pedro Pablo Kuczynski in 2018. This is exactly what happened to Morales. On November 8th, the company hired by the TSE to run the election had issued a statement saying it could not “give faith of the integrity...
14 Feb Justice Prevails over Realpolitik at Koblenz: International Law offers a Rare Glimmer of Hope after a Decade of Disappointments for Syrians
...crimes committed in Syria since 2011. Whilst the same court convicted Eyad al-Gharib of aiding and abetting crimes against humanity in 2021, al-Gharib was a very minor figure in Syria’s intelligence apparatus. In contrast, from January 2011 to December 2012, Raslan served as head of investigations at Branch 251 of Syria’s General Intelligence Directorate, one of the Assad regime’s most infamous torture centres. Notably, the trial confirmed that Raslan perpetrated the impugned acts pursuant to a state-sponsored policy aimed at undermining support for legitimate pro-democracy protests and opposition actors. In...
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...22 Dec Call for Papers: Jus Post Bellum at Leiden
My friends at Leiden — my alma mater — have asked me to post the following call for papers: Call for Papers for the Jus Post Bellum Project Launch Conference The Jus Post Bellum Project at the Grotius Centre for International Legal Studies at Leiden University has issued a call for papers for the Project’s launch conference. The conference, entitled “‘Jus-Post-Bellum’: Mapping the normative foundations,” will be held May 31 to June 1, 2012, in The Hague. The organizers describe the Project as follows: The proper ending of conflict and...
20 May Pandemic of Hunger Symposium: Population Transfers and the Civilian Toll of Starvation as a Method of Warfare in Syria and South Sudan
...conflict “on food security can be direct, such as displacement from land, livestock grazing areas, and fishing grounds” and further by stressing that “food insecurity can be drivers of forced displacement”. This contribution explores the extent to which the phenomena of starvation and attendant population transfers have been used as a deliberate military strategy in both Syria and South Sudan. The use of starvation to effect population transfers Syria In early 2012, and as the Syrian conflict steadily progressed, non-State actors began proliferating with the benefit of external support. Insurgent...
18 Apr Symposium on International Conflict and Security Law: A Research Handbook – The Extra-Legal Foundations of International Conflict and Security Law: the Importance of Identifying Globally Protected Goods and Collective Interests
...Peremptory Norms of the International Community”, in European Journal of International Law, Volume 23, Issue 3, pp. 837-861). It seems clear that, in spite of their importance to assess the legitimacy of international law, there is no single and widespread definition of what these values are (on international “common goods”, see Cafaggio, F. and D. D. Caron, “Global Public Goods amidst a Plurality of Legal Orders: A Symposium”, in European Journal of International Law, Volume 23, Issue 3, 2012, pp. 643-649, as well as Shaffer, G. “International Law and Global...
13 Nov The Spanish Rapper Extradition Case Before a Belgian Court Fires up the Legal Discussion on Freedom of Expression and Other Fundamental Rights
...States of the European Union has sharpened the discussion about freedom of expression and an overly broad interpretation of the term “terrorism”. In 2012, Mallorcan rapper Valtònyc, real name Josep Arenas Beltran, was arrested at the age of 18 for the content of some rap songs he posted on YouTube and sang during performances. He was released again awaiting prosecution, and five years later, he was sentenced to 3,5 years imprisonment for these lyrics. In his songs he mocked the Spanish Royal Family, he referred to violent Grapo and Eta...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...
24 Jul Judge Mindua’s Separate Opinion in Al Hassan: International Humanitarian Law and the Right to Political, Legal and Cultural Self-Determination
...questions. The opinion is notably different in emphasis from the majority Trial Judgment and Judge Akane and Judge Prost’s Separate Opinions. The trial and the majority Trial Judgment focused on Ansar Dine/AQIM’s system of governance during their occupation of Timbuktu in 2012; many of the charges depended on the characterisation of their rules and punishments as war crimes or crimes against humanity that, the Prosecution argued, had a disproportionate effect on women. As a result, the trial and judgment had to grapple with the criteria for legitimate domestic law and...