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Justice Breyer’s Concurrence in Hussain
As Marty predicted back in March, the Supreme Court’s denial of certiorari this morning in the latest Guantánamo case to reach the Court–Hussain v. Obama–came…
News Roundup and Notes: April 21, 2014
Before the start of business, Just Security provides a curated summary of up-to-the-minute developments at home and abroad. Here’s today’s news. Drone Strikes in Yemen Over…
Recap: A Guide to Recent Posts on Just Security (Apr. 12-Apr.18)
I. Surveillance, Privacy, & Technology Beth Van Schaack, Results of High Commissioner’s Data Call Available Online (Friday, Apr. 18) Thomas Earnest, New Editors’ Picks…
Results of High Commissioner’s Data Call Available Online
We blogged earlier about the “data call” initiated by the U.N. High Commissioner on Human Rights in response to paragraph 5 of General Assembly Resolution 68/167 on the right…
Statelessness knocked on the head: House of Lords’ defeat for the UK Government’s citizenship-stripping proposal
As Steve Vladeck observed in one of his first posts at Just Security, citizenship-stripping proposals are a recurring feature in American politics and public discourse, especially…
News Roundup and Notes: April 18, 2014
Before the start of business, Just Security provides a curated summary of up-to-the-minute developments at home and abroad. Here’s today’s news. Military Commissions The…
Trial Chamber Finds Power to Compel Witnesses is an “Implied Power” of the ICC
In an important victory for the Office of the Prosecutor at the ICC, the Ruto Trial Chamber, by majority, today issued subpoenas for eight prosecution witnesses for the prosecution…
Weak Tea: Seymour Hersh Elaborates His Views on Why to Trust Russian Spies
If you have been following the response to Sy Hersh’s claims that rebels—and not Assad’s forces—used chemical weapons in the fateful attacks on civilians in Syria in August…
Ukraine accepts ICC Jurisdiction but stops short, way short
The Registrar of the International Criminal Court has announced that it has received a declaration from Ukraine accepting jurisdiction for international crimes committed on its…
In al Nashiri, Judge Pohl orders disclosure of details of CIA’s “black sites” to the defense
To say it has been an eventful week for the military commissions in Guantanamo might be an understatement. As Ruchi has covered each morning this week in the Early Edition, the…
New Editors’ Picks Reading List: IHRL on Privacy and Surveillance
As regular readers will likely recall, in recent weeks there has been much discussion here on the pages of Just Security (and elsewhere) on important questions regarding the extraterritorial…
News Roundup and Notes: April 17, 2014
Before the start of business, Just Security provides a curated summary of up-to-the-minute developments at home and abroad. Here’s today’s news. Ukraine Speaking in a televised…