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The United States’ Long (and Proud) Tradition in Support of the Extraterritorial Application of International Human Rights Law

[Editor’s Note: Just Security is holding a “mini forum” on the extraterritorial application of human rights treaties in light of the release of two State Department memos and…
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Koh on Non-Refoulement

[Editor’s Note: Just Security is holding a “mini forum” on the extraterritorial application of human rights treaties in light of the release of two State Department memos and…
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Letter to the Editor from Former Member of the Human Rights Committee, Martin Scheinin

[Editor’s Note: Just Security is holding a “mini forum” on the extraterritorial application of human rights treaties in light of the release of two State Department memos and…
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Harold Koh’s Legal Opinions on the US Position on the Extraterritorial Application of Human Rights Treaties

[Editor’s Note: Just Security is holding a “mini forum” on the extraterritorial application of human rights treaties in light of the release of two State Department memos and…
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Extraterritorial Surveillance Under the ICCPR . . . The Treaty Allows It!

[Editor’s Note: Just Security is holding a “mini forum” on the extraterritorial application of human rights treaties in light of the release of two State Department memos and…
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It’s a Serious Mistake for the US Government To Maintain It Need Not Follow Human Rights Law Beyond US Borders

[Editor’s Note: Just Security is holding a “mini forum” on the extraterritorial application of human rights treaties in light of the release of two State Department memos and…
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Forum on the Extraterritorial Application of Human Rights Treaties: Analyzing the State Department Memos

The New York Times, in a must-read story by Charlie Savage, provides the full text of two significant memos written by Harold Koh during his time as Legal Adviser of the State…
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The Extraterritoriality of Human Rights Obligations

Following my short post on the extraterritoriality of human rights obligations, and our series on lex specialis and the interface between the law of armed conflict and international…
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Creative Ambiguity – International Law’s Distant Relationship with Peacetime Spying

In all the sound and fury over “five eye” intercept programs, commentators appear so far to have paid relatively little attention to international law.  This is no simple…
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More on the Rights of Others – Ben Wittes’ Failure of Imagination

Ben Wittes weighs in today on Lawfare on the side of rejecting privacy rights for anyone but U.S. citizens, aligning himself with Orin Kerr and against myself [see my previous…
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We Are All Foreigners: NSA Spying and the Rights of Others

The New York Times reports today that President Obama is expected to ban eavesdropping on the phones of our allies’ presidents and prime ministers.  There is no indication,…
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United States Report to the UN Human Rights Committee: Lex Specialis and Extraterritoriality

The United States was poised to present its views tomorrow to the Human Rights Committee, which monitors state parties’ compliance with the International Covenant on Civil…
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