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27 Dec New Cambridge Journal of International & Comparative Law
...February 2012. Successful authors will be notified in April 2012 as to whether they will be published in one of our two substantive issues for the year 2011-12. Manuscripts must be submitted via our website – click on ‘Submissions’ at www.cjicl.org.uk – by the closing date. Please see below for further information. In addition to a call for submissions for the Journal, the Editorial Board would like to invite authors to submit c. 1000 word commentaries for our new online blog (available at www.cjicl.org.uk), by e-mailing them to: blog@cjicl.org.uk with...23 Aug Guest Post: Do drones cause fewer civilian casualties than traditional combat?
...and 2012 battles with Hamas in Gaza, the 1999 Russian war with Chechen rebels, and the final stages of the struggle between Sri Lanka and the LTTE (Tamil Tigers) all killed more civilians than combatants, in some cases substantially more. Although the U.S. has not caused civilian casualties at rates that high, there have been memorable examples of civilian casualties in each of the recent conflicts in which we have been involved, and those casualties were caused by all kinds of weapons systems. The 1991 Gulf War had the Al-Firdos...09 Aug Final Thoughts on the Bar Human Rights Committee’s Letter
Kirsty Brimelow QC, the chair of the Bar Human Rights Committee (BHRC) — and a colleague of mine at Doughty Street Chambers — has responded to my position on the 2009 Declaration, as recounted by Joshua Rozenberg in this Guardian article. Here is the relevant paragraph: Neither Rozenberg’s opinion piece nor academic he relies upon, Kevin Heller, cite the text of the 2012 decision in support of their positions. This is hardly surprising given that the decision does not in fact “formally reject” the 2009 declaration. Although I stand behind...27 Sep HILJ Symposium: A Pragmatist’s Response to ‘The Democratic Coup d’Etat’
...in Current Post-Authoritarian Constitution-Making, Brooklyn J. Int’l Law (Forthcoming 2012); David Landau, Constitution-Making Gone Wrong, Alabama L. Rev. (Forthcoming 2012). In this period, a charismatic individual or political party can reassert dictatorship by turning a popular mandate into a reason for unilaterally reshaping the institutional landscape of the state. Perhaps the two best examples of this kind of plebiscitary constitution-making are Russia and Venezuela, where President Yeltsin and President Chavez were able to seize control of the constitution-making process and unilaterally reshape the institutional apparatus in the process by exploiting...
11 Feb The Prospects of Prosecuting Rohingya Deportation before the International Crimes Tribunal, Bangladesh (ICT-BD)
...accomplishment of such trials. Accordingly, the GoB established two Tribunals namely the ICT-BD on 25 March 2010 and 22 March 2012, respectively. Subsequently, the GoB promulgated the International Crimes Tribunal Rules of Procedure 2010 (ICT RoP) to provide the procedural frameworks of ICT-BD. The ICT-BD handed forty-one judgments to date (thirty by ICT-BD1 and eleven by ICT-BD2). The ICT-BD is still conducting its investigation and prosecution. Section 3 of the ICT Act provides the jurisdictional basis of the ICT-BD. As regards personal jurisdiction, the ICT-BD can prosecute any individual or...16 Apr Stewardship versus Sovereignty? International Law and the Apportionment of Cyberspace
Last month, I was scheduled to attend Cyber Dialogue 2012 – What is Stewardship in Cyberspace? at the University of Toronto’s Munk School of Global Affairs. I was quite excited to attend given the line-up of participants with a truly diverse set of backgrounds and areas of expertise. Unfortunately, despite nearly nine hours in the Philadelphia airport, I never made it because of this. Indeed, not only couldn’t I fly to Toronto, over the course of the morning and early afternoon I learned that I couldn’t get to Detroit, Erie,...04 Feb Olive Oil Update – Prices on the Rise
...just as they were blossoming. Summer brought a prolonged drought. By December, which should be the height of the 2012/13 harvest, the Spanish crop was coming in at just 44 percent of the year before. The harvest has been better elsewhere, but … Spain so dominates the world market that no one else can really make up the loss. Tunisia is trying. The fifth largest producer and fourth largest exporter, its production is expected to rise by 27 percent in the 2012-13 season. California will also have a good year....06 May Guest Post: Stephen W. Preston on ‘The Legal Framework for the United States’ Use of Military Force since 9/11’ (ASIL Annual Meeting 2015)–Old Wine in New Bottles
...order to prevent any future acts of international terrorism against the United States”. In 2009, the Obama Administration filed a memorandum in the Guantánamo habeas litigation, arguing that the President’s authority to detain “persons who were part of, or substantially supported, Taliban or al Qaida forces or associated forces that are engaged in hostilities against the United States or its coalition partners” could be derived from the 2001 AUMF (thereby actually abandoning the “enemy combatant” argument of the Bush administration). By the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2012,...