http://www.opiniojuris.org/ en-us 2008-06-10T13:06+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/1211760090.shtml With so many failed terrorism prosecutions to cover &mdash; see, for example, here, here, and here &mdash; the media can be forgiven for overlooking one here or there.... Kevin Jon Heller 2008-05-26T00:05+00:00 http://www.opiniojuris.org/posts/1211144127.shtml Russia continues to keep the pressure on Canada in the race to claim rights over the seabed underneath the Arctic Sea.... Julian Ku 2008-05-19T04:05+00:00 http://www.opiniojuris.org/posts/1210952827.shtml In a strange move, the Supreme Court on Monday affirmed the ATS Apartheid case of Khulamani v. Barclay Bank (recaptioned at the Supreme Court as American Isuzu Motors v. Ntsebeza).... Roger Alford 2008-05-16T15:05+00:00 http://www.opiniojuris.org/posts/1210221886.shtml Boring tax case, interesting international law issue. That's how I would summarize Jamieson v. CIR. The issue in Jamieson is what happens if a treaty says one thing, a subsequent... Roger Alford 2008-05-08T15:05+00:00 http://www.opiniojuris.org/posts/1210000749.shtml One of the more intriguing questions from the oral argument in the child rape death penalty case of Kennedy v. Louisiana is whether evolving standards of decency are a one-way... Roger Alford 2008-05-05T15:05+00:00 http://www.opiniojuris.org/posts/1209742944.shtml Earlier this week the WTO Appellate Body clarified the role of legal precedent in WTO jurisprudence. The background to the discussion was a WTO panel’s refusal to follow a previous Appellate... Roger Alford 2008-05-02T15:05+00:00 http://www.opiniojuris.org/posts/1209572319.shtml The American Lawyer has just published a great article on the future of law firms. The bottom line: successful law firms will be global operations with thousands of lawyers led... Roger Alford 2008-04-30T16:04+00:00 http://www.opiniojuris.org/posts/1209487319.shtml Last week a Florida state court rendered an interesting decision on the scope of application of the Warsaw Convention. The court recognized that state tort law is preempted by the... Roger Alford 2008-04-29T16:04+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/1208964511.shtml One of the unintended consequences of the movement to hold corporations liable for aiding and abetting human rights abuses is that doing so may prove to be the most effective way... Roger Alford 2008-04-23T15:04+00:00 http://www.opiniojuris.org/posts/1208825125.shtml One of my students recently took the naturalization test and was kind enough to share with me the “Quick Civic Lessons”... Roger Alford 2008-04-22T12:04+00:00 http://www.opiniojuris.org/posts/1208467480.shtml Last week State Department Legal Adviser John Bellinger delivered an important speech at Vanderbilt Law School on Alien Tort Statute litigation. The speech was a fascinating analysis of the... Roger Alford 2008-04-18T04:04+00:00 http://www.opiniojuris.org/posts/1207921224.shtml There are many topics that come to mind from yesterday's ASIL program, but the biggest takeaway for me came from the annual meeting with the passing of the torch from <a... Roger Alford 2008-04-11T13:04+00:00 http://www.opiniojuris.org/posts/1207851223.shtml Okay maybe not war exactly. But last month the Supreme Court rendered an interesting opinion resolving a bitter border dispute between Delaware and New Jersey. Just how bitter? Well, according... Roger Alford 2008-04-10T18:04+00:00