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06 Sep

...Taylor’s trial in May, Judge Sow started to speak and people seated in the public gallery heard a few words before the microphones went off. [snip] In their appeal document dated August 17, 2012, Taylor’s defense council said that there was a need to proffer other evidence in their appeal motion. “The defense intends to call as witness on appeal, former Special Court Justice El Hadji Malik Sow. He is expected to testify on his statement that there were “no deliberations” as is alleged in Ground of Appeal 36 of...
06.09.12 | |

01 Dec

...over 14,300 civilians have been killed in the conflict in Afghanistan in the period between January 2007 and June 2013. Members of anti-government armed groups were responsible for at least 9,778 civilian deaths, while the pro-government forces were responsible for at least 3,210 civilian deaths. A number of reported killings remain unattributed. 24. According to UNAMA, more civilians were killed by members of anti- government armed groups in the first half of 2013 than in 2012. Members of the Taliban and affiliated armed groups are allegedly responsible for deliberately killing...
01.12.13 | |

05 Oct

Over at Lawfare, I’ve flagged a fine new article in the Military Law Review, “The Case of the Murdering Wives: Reid v. Covert and the Complicated Question of Civilians and Courts-Martial,” by Captain Brittany Warren (Vol. 212. 2012, p. 133; link goes to jagcnet.army.mil.) The article goes into fascinating detail about the actual facts and circumstances of Reid v. Covert, as well as a discussion of historical practices dating back to 17th century Britain and the application of the Articles of War to “camp followers.” It then comes back to...
05.10.12 | |

20 Sep

The Obama Administration appears to have shifted its views on the nature of the September 11, 2012 attack on the U.S. consulate in Libya that resulted in the death of four Americans, including U.S. Ambassador Christopher Stevens. Rather than blaming the attack on a “spontaneous” reaction to the offensive US film (which U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. Susan Rice seemed to argue on Sunday), the U.S. government is now calling this a “terrorist attack“. Other news reports suggest the U.S. had intelligence warnings of an attack and the Libyan government...
20.09.12 | |

10 Sep

...double talking the international community while the streets in Afghanistan, Iraq and Syria run red with blood. Kevin Jon Heller Well, you will never see the ICC prosecute someone in Syria or Iraq without a UNSC referral, as it does not otherwise have jurisdiction. And given that the OTP is waiting for authorization to formally investigate in Afghanistan, you should cut them at least a little slack. Jackdaw @Kevin The 'hard working Prosecutors' of the ICC, who needed to enlist Angelina and Brad Pitt to help them capture Joseph Kony....
10.09.18 | |

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 | |

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 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 | |

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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