UNHCR: Permit Gazans to Flee Across Borders
The UN official responsible for refugees, UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) Antonio Guterres, has declared that civilians who wish to flee fighting in the Gaza Strip must be allowed to pass...
View ArticleFirst Trial of Khmer Rouge Leader Begins
The first trial of a Khmer Rouge leader commenced on Tuesday. Kaing Guek Eav, 66, known as Duch, was a commandant of Security Prison 21, where he was allegedly involved in sending 14,000 Cambodians to...
View ArticleRobotics Revolution Collides With Laws of War
Observers of the ongoing conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan have hotly debated the wisdom of using unmanned drone aircraft to carry out military operations. These debates have taken place within the...
View ArticleSudanese President Defies ICC Arrest Order
Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir rallied Arab supporters in Darfur by stating no war crimes court or the U.N. Security Council can touch “even an eyelash” on him in response the the International...
View ArticleJoseph Mpambara Convicted in the Hague
Last week, the Hague District Court ruled on the case of Joseph Mpambara, a Rwandan Hutu allegedly associated with the 1994 Rwandan genocide. The court found Mpambara guilty for the deaths of two...
View ArticlePeru's Fujimori Claims Innocence
On Wednesday, former Peruvian President Alberto Fujimori defended his innocence with regards to human rights abuse claims in a Rio De Janeiro court. Taking the stand in his own defense, Fujimori...
View ArticlePeru: Fujimori Convicted
Last Tuesday, the Former Peruvian president Alberto Fujimori was convicted of “crimes against humanity” for his role in the 1990s killings and kidnappings by security forces when his government fought...
View ArticleSpanish AG: No Torture Investigation of US Officials
Spanish Attorney General Candido Conde-Pumpido has declined to open an investigation in Spain’s National Court into whether six top Bush Administration officials sanctioned torture at Guantanamo Bay....
View ArticleReciprocity and the Law of War
Abstract This Article examines how the principle of reciprocity operates within the international law of war. Tracing the historical development and application of the law, the Article demonstrates...
View ArticleECtHR Holds Russia Liable for Disappearances in Chechnya
On Thursday (10/29), the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) released its ruling on three cases concerning disappearances in Chechnya. In one of the cases, the victim, Mayrudin Khantiyev, had been...
View ArticleU.N. Rapporteur Questions Legal Basis of U.S. Predator Program
The legality of the U.S. Government’s use of unmanned Predator drones to target militants in Afghanistan and Pakistan has recently come under increasing scrutiny, as a prominent U.N. representative...
View ArticleICC: Darfur rebel chief’s hearing on confirmation of charges ends
The hearing on the confirmation of charges against suspected Darfur war criminal Bahr Idriss Abu Garda at the International Criminal Court (ICC) ended on October 30th.Abu Garda, 46, is a leader of the...
View ArticleNorth and South Korean Vessels Clash in Disputed Waters
On Tuesday, November 10, the navies of North and South Korea exchanged fire in disputed waters off the western coast of the peninsula, damaging ships from both sides and reportedly killing a North...
View ArticleICC Pre-Trial Chamber Declines to Confirm Charges Against Sudanese Rebel Leader
On February 7, a pre-trial chamber of the International Criminal Court (ICC) unanimously declined to confirm charges against Sudanese rebel leader Bahar Idriss Abu Garda. Mr. Abu Garda is the first...
View ArticleInternational Law in Cyberspace: The Koh Speech and Tallinn Manual Juxtaposed
In 2011, the White House issued the International Strategy for Cyberspace, which noted that “[t]he development of norms for state conduct in cyberspace does not require a reinvention of customary...
View ArticleInternational Law in Cyberspace
A footnoted version of a speech delivered by Harold Hongju Koh, Legal Adviser, U.S. Department of State, on September 18, 2012, at the USCYBERCOM Inter-Agency Legal Conference on the Roles of Cyber in...
View ArticleTargeted Killing, Human Rights and Ungoverned Spaces
This brief commentary considers the potential effect of a territorial state’s international human rights obligations on the law governing targeted killings. It posits that these obligations should...
View ArticleThe Long-Term International Law Implications of Targeted Killing Practices
“Targeted killings are not a new practice – governments have long sought to prevail over their enemies by engaging in premeditated killings of individual suspects. What is new now is the rapid...
View ArticleConceptualizing China Within the Kantian Peace
Immanuel Kant’s 1795 essay, “To Perpetual Peace: A Philosophical Sketch” (Zum ewigen Frieden), established a concept of cosmopolitan law as the nemesis of war, instilling in generations of thinkers and...
View ArticleInternational Law as American History
A review of Lincoln’s Code: The Laws of War in American History. By John Fabian Witt. New York, N.Y.: Free Press. 2012. Pp. viii, 248. $32.00. Read full article (PDF)
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