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27 Feb

...fleshed out. US v. Dire, 680 F.3d 446, 463 (4th Cir. 2012). In Dire, the 4th Circuit discussed extensively In re Piracy Jure Gentium, [1934] A.C. 586, where the Privy Council held that robbery is not an essential element of piracy. Along the way, the Privy Council cited approvingly language from other European sources stating that "private ends" required for piracy does not necessarily mean for "private gain," but could include sailing for "vengeance or for anarchistic or other ends." The 4th Circuit analyzed and essentially followed Piracy Jure Gentium,...
27.02.13 | |

03 Jul

...bad day as I am struggling to work on my IRS Return 2012. This has now lasted several months, I had extended it for October 15th because I had to do my country of residence first. I am coming to the conclusion that if I remain a dual citizen paying taxes to two countries I will not be able to afford it. Paying Social Security Self Employment Taxes to the two countries will take a chunk of what I earned, Paying US taxes in my pension from my country of...
03.07.13 | |

24 Apr

Charlie Savage’s odd article in yesterday’s New York Times prompted another exchange in the ongoing conversation about whether the Obama Administration’s assertions of executive power can be meaningfully distinguished from those of George W. Bush. Savage’s article is headlined in such a way, and otherwise seems to suggest that Obama’s recent reliance on executive orders to accomplish various policy changes (in, for example environmental regulation) is analogous to the Bush Administration’s claims that it could exercise executive power to change various policies and laws in the counterterrorism realm....
24.04.12 | |

13 Nov

...Libertad is a warship and the flagship of the Argentine Navy. It alleges that, at the time of its detention, the frigate ARA Libertad was on an official visit to Ghana and that the Government of Argentina and the Government of Ghana had agreed upon the vessel’s arrival at the Port of Tema on 1 October 2012" Thus, even if the waiver applies, which it does not (I have read the brief from the judge of Ghana and it is far from correct on this point as it cites ramdon...
13.11.12 | |

13 Sep

André de Hoogh Widdows, ICLQ 1978, 459; Bindschedler, ZaoRV 1968, 1; Zemanek, ZaoRV 1968, 16; Talmon, Article 2(6), in Simma, Charter of the United Nations, 2012, 261-262; Peters, Article 25, in Simma, Charter of the United Nations, 2012, 800. daragh Murray The Contemporary Legal Nature of UN Security Council Ceasefire Resolutions', co-authored with C.Henderson, Leiden Journal of International Law, Volume 26, Issue 2, 2013. Kevin Jon Heller Thanks! But Andre, what is ZaoRV? John Louth Eric David's commentary on Article 34 VCLT in Corten and Klein's Commentary, paragraph 13: "13....
13.09.13 | |

11 Apr

The bankruptcy of the U.S. military-commissions system is currently on full display in the trial of Abd al-Rahim Al-Nashiri. Readers who can stomach the spectacle of a tortured detainee being prosecuted for imaginary war crimes committed at a time when there was no armed conflict between the U.S. and al-Qaeda anywhere in the world can find excellent coverage of the pre-trial motions at Lawfare....
11.04.12 | |

04 Jan

...who is living long term overseas and has been keeping the US passport "just in case" or perhaps out of fear of renouncing before, is going to change their mind in 2012. I hope they staff up the embassies to deal with the tidal wave of expatriation requests that is going to hit them. Victoria I have to concur with jen. I am a long-term EU resident (on my third 10-year French residency permit) married to an EU citizen. Until last year I owed nothing (my 1040's are mostly zeros)....
04.01.12 | |

22 Jan

...preceded the establishment of the Philippines as a sovereing entity appear on the face of it to delimit national territory to areas lying East of 118 degrees longditude. That does not make these contested areas Chinese, but it will be hard to argue that they are an integral part of the Philippines either During the 2012 standoff over the Scarborough Shoal the Philippines' DFA went to great lengths to publish on its website the legal basis for its assertion of sovereignty, making explicitly clear that this was not based on...
22.01.13 | |

03 Jan

...academic commentary then those which do not allow comments could be seen to be free-riding on the growing credibility that those which do allow comments are bringing to this form of scholarly dialogue. That people hide behind pseudonyms to publish comments they are too ashamed to have attributed to them is in my view where the true cowardice lies. John Louth (Editor-in-Chief, Academic Law, OUP) Benjamin G. Davis Online Influence Space(s) and Digital Influence Waves: In Honor of Charly, 25 Ohio St. J. on Disp. Resol. 201-246 (2010). I have...
03.01.12 | |

27 May

I’ve been meaning to blog about the 33-year sentence that Pakistan recently imposed on Shakil Afridi, the doctor who secretly worked with the CIA to locate bin Laden. The United States is predictably up in arms over the sentence, with Leon Panetta recently claiming that “[i]t is so difficult to understand and it’s so disturbing that they would sentence this doctor to 33 years for helping in the search for the most notorious terrorist in our times… This doctor was not working against Pakistan, he was working against...
27.05.12 | |

25 Nov

Okay, not Saif Gaddafi. Saadi: Niger’s President Mahamadou Issofou has said his government is ready to hand Saadi Qaddafi over to the International Criminal Court should the body request it to do so. To date, the ICC has not issued a warrant for Saadi’s arrest, and will not request his extradition unless that position changes. On 7 November, however, the ICC’s Chief Prosecutor Fatou Bensouda revealed that the court was investigating crimes allegedly committed by both Qaddafi regime members and revolutionaries during last year’s revolution, and may bring...
25.11.12 | |

08 Feb

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08.02.12 | |