http://www.opiniojuris.org/ en-us 2008-07-11T10:07+00:00 http://www.opiniojuris.org/posts/1215767251.shtml I mentioned last month that the ICC Prosecutor, Luis Moreno-Ocampo, was considering bringing genocide charges against Sudanese officials far more senior than Ahmed Haroun, the country's "humanitarian affairs" minister. Well,... Kevin Jon Heller 2008-07-11T09:07+00:00 http://www.opiniojuris.org/posts/1215665332.shtml Every week, an Australian show called The Gruen Transfer asks two advertising companies to compete with each other to sell the unsellable. This week's challenge: create a TV ad to... Kevin Jon Heller 2008-07-10T04:07+00:00 http://www.opiniojuris.org/posts/1214760889.shtml The NY Times Week in Review has an article written by Graham Bowley on the effect of recent attacks by Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND) on... Chris Borgen 2008-06-29T17:06+00:00 http://www.opiniojuris.org/posts/1214436935.shtml WorldPublicOpinion.org has released an interesting survey of world attitudes toward torture. Here is the summary of their findings:... Kevin Jon Heller 2008-06-25T23:06+00:00 http://www.opiniojuris.org/posts/1213287684.shtml As our Boumediene instant symposium gets underway, I thought it might be interesting to note that the Israeli Supreme Court has just upheld the Incarceration of Unlawful Combatants Law, which... Kevin Jon Heller 2008-06-12T16:06+00:00 http://www.opiniojuris.org/posts/1213104254.shtml First the judge who felt "badgered, beaten, and bruised" by prosecutors for trying to protect Khadr's rights was removed from the case "for personnel reasons." Now it turns out that... Kevin Jon Heller 2008-06-10T13:06+00:00 http://www.opiniojuris.org/posts/1212017750.shtml Nearly 100 nations have reached an agreement on a draft treaty to ban the use of cluster bombs within 8 years. This may or may not be a good idea.... Julian Ku 2008-05-29T04:05+00:00 http://www.opiniojuris.org/posts/1211640542.shtml Wednesday’s NY Times had a good essay by Thomas Friedman on the current evolution of the global distribution of power. He argues that there are actually three shifts taking place:... Chris Borgen 2008-05-24T14:05+00:00 http://www.opiniojuris.org/posts/1211341486.shtml Over at National Security Advisors, our colleague Dave Glazier has a superb post on whether the Gitmo defense attorneys are responsible for the ills of the military commissions, as the... Kevin Jon Heller 2008-05-21T03:05+00:00 http://www.opiniojuris.org/posts/1210892280.shtml I had contemplated weighing in on commentators' unfortunate tendency to equate the Responsibility to Protect doctrine with humanitarian invasion, but John Boonstra at UN Dispatch beat me to it. Here's... Kevin Jon Heller 2008-05-15T22:05+00:00 http://www.opiniojuris.org/posts/1210445127.shtml The first part of this post's title is also the title of a new article at Time.com. (Note: on CNN.com, they title the article "Time to Invade Myanmar?")... Chris Borgen 2008-05-10T18:05+00:00 http://www.opiniojuris.org/posts/1210113760.shtml I'm sorry, I just can't let this one go:... Kevin Jon Heller 2008-05-06T22:05+00:00 http://www.opiniojuris.org/posts/1209684149.shtml Marty Lederman has kindly published a long post I have written on what — if anything — the Justice Case has to say about the criminal responsibility of government lawyers... Kevin Jon Heller 2008-05-01T23:05+00:00 http://www.opiniojuris.org/posts/1209415837.shtml I think there is more to Bellinger’s speech on the United States and the ICC than Julian suggests. Let me just summarize the best parts of the speech. First, Bellinger... Roger Alford 2008-04-28T20:04+00:00 http://www.opiniojuris.org/posts/1208123016.shtml Naomi Norberg has a fascinating post today at IntLawGrrls about the legal treatment of modern-day pirates. I just want to point readers to a recent article in The Sunday... Kevin Jon Heller 2008-04-13T21:04+00:00