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by Gleider Hernández Gleider I Hernández is Lecturer in Law, University of Durham. The author is grateful to Dr Philippa Webb, Professor Michael Schmitt and Thomas Liefländer for their exchanges of views on this topic. The 2012 revelation that United States President Barack Obama was immersed in the authorisation and execution of targeted drone strikes by the CIA
Mon, 27 May 2013 16:28
by Marko Milanovic Danish Institute for International Studies, 9-10 December 2013. Globalisation and the promotion of human rights are often assumed to walk hand in hand as increased interdependence favours rights-based governance and global communication means that human rights abuses are reported in real time. Yet, there is a flip side to this relationship. States, and especially more
Sat, 25 May 2013 11:09
by Marko Milanovic Call for papers: “Natural resources grabbing: erosion or legitimate exercise of State sovereignty?" 4th and 5th October 2013, University of Cagliari (Sardinia, Italy); deadline for submissions of abstracts: 15 June 2013. The growing demand for natural resources has triggered a "race" to their exploitation and possession, especially in developing countries. This research project aims at
Sat, 25 May 2013 11:02
by Julian Ku Irini Papanicolopulu highlights the important and sometimes central role that non-state actors have in the whaling disputes between Japan and Australia. Invoking the traditional lens of international law, she considers whether the actions of Sea Shepherd Conservation Society (SSCS) or the Institute for Cetacean Research can implicate state responsibility. Her conclusion is [...]
Mon, 27 May 2013 21:57
by Irini Papanicolopulu [Dr Irini Papanicolopulu is a Lecturer at the University of Glasgow and Senior Research Fellow at the University of Milano-Bicocca] Cross-posted at SHARES blog. Whaling disputes are multifaceted. While Australia and Japan are confronting each other in The Hague (see the post by Natalie Klein), Sea Shepherd Conservation Society (SSCS), an American [...]
Mon, 27 May 2013 19:00
by Tim Stephens [Dr Tim Stephens is Associate Professor and Co-Director of the Sydney Centre for International Law, Faculty of Law, University of Sydney.] Cross-posted at SHARES blog. Natalie Klein has drawn attention to a longstanding weakness in those fields of international law, including international environmental law, devoted to serve collective interests, in matching obligations [...]
Mon, 27 May 2013 17:00
by Jack Goldsmith
The major challenge to legitimating the shadow war against terrorists is that the Executive branch is hand-tied by its own secrecy rules, and cannot disclose what it is doing to permit Congress and the American people to judge whether it … Read more »
Mon, 27 May 2013 19:32
by Benjamin Wittes
The single most challenging, interesting, and profound comments I have read about President Obama’s speech the other day is this post by Bobby. Drawn from his ongoing book project, Bobby poses the question of what the end of the … Read more »
Mon, 27 May 2013 14:28
by Paul Rosenzweig
I can do no better than quote Oliver Wendell Holmes from his famous speech to the University of Virginia in 1884:
So to the indifferent inquirer who asks why Memorial Day is still kept up we may answer, it
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Mon, 27 May 2013 01:57
