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23 May Senate Foreign Relations Committee Takes on the AUMF
As several of my friends at Just Security and Lawfare have noted, the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on Wednesday held an, um, interesting hearing on whether the primary domestic law authorizing the use of force against Al Qaeda, the Taliban and associated forces needs to be repealed or revised. Witnesses’ written statements and (more interesting) video of the hearing is here. The hearings featured current DOD General Counsel Stephen Preston, Principal Deputy Legal Adviser at the State Department Mary McLeod, followed by former (Obama) State Department Legal Adviser...25 Jun Court Guts SB 1070 (Immigration Still Part of Foreign Relations)
As predicted here, the Supreme Court delivered a split decision today in the Arizona immigration case. But to the extent that it’s a partial victory for supporters of SB 1070, it’s only a nominal one. Justice Kennedy’s majority opinion broadly validates federal power over immigration, leaving a very confined space for state activity. Kennedy’s opinion situates immigration law as part of foreign relations. [The federal power over immigration] rests, in part, on the National Government’s constitutional power to “establish an uniform Rule of Naturalization,” U. S. Const., Art....22 Jan The Haunting “I Cannot Recall (Ballad of Manus Island)”
Patrick S. O'Donnell Thank you. One of my former teachers, Richard ('Dick') Flacks, who was among the founders of the Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) and is now professor emeritus (sociology), is an authority on protest music (especially its folk variant). Flacks co-authored, with Rob Rosenthal, Playing for Change: Music and Musicians in the Service of Social Movements (Paradigm Publishers, 2012), should anyone be interested. Patrick S. O'Donnell Thank you. Richard (Dick) Flacks, one of my former teachers, among the founders of the Students for a Democratic Society (SDS),...27 May The Real Story Behind the Conviction of the Pakistani Doctor
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...08 Feb Global Convergence in Settlements (the Class Action Kind!)
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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...13 Sep Quick Bleg About the Security Council
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....06 Jan Why the Muslim Brotherhood (Wrongly) Believes the ICC Can Investigate
...the MB has to represent the Egyptian government. Canuck Kevin, To date, it is worth reflecting that the OTP SAS has gained varied experiences in analyzing different jurisdictional questions in situations of Honduras, Iraq and Palestine. In case of Palestine, following a number of steps, the OTP in its decision of April 2012 noted that: “it is for the relevant bodies at the United Nations or the Assembly of States Parties to make the legal determination whether Palestine qualifies as a State for the purpose of acceding to the Rome...05 Jun Weekday News Wrap: Wednesday, June 5, 2013
...has handed out prison sentences of up to five years to 43 pro-democracy NGO workers, including 16 Americans. Environmental NGOs have released a report accusing Joseph Kony and his militia of poaching elephants for cash and have called upon governments, particularly in Asia, to do more to combat the illegal trade in ivory. The EU Trade Commissioner, Karel De Gucht, has imposed a 12% import duty on Chinese solar panel products that will increase to an average of 47% unless a solution is negotiated within 60 days. China has already...