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European Court of Human Rights: Foreign State Officials are Immune from Civil Suit for Torture (Jones v. United Kingdom)
The European Court of Human Rights has issued its long-awaited judgment in Jones v. United Kingdom. The case involves four British nationals who sued Saudi Arabia and Saudi officials…
Timeline: Palestine and the International Criminal Court
Over the holidays, the Guardian and other media have again raised the specter of the Palestinians joining the International Criminal Court (ICC), or otherwise attempting to invoke…
Response to the Letter to the Editor from Amnesty International’s Legal Adviser
I appreciate the Letter to the Editor from Hugo Relva, Legal Adviser at Amnesty International responding to my earlier post, in which I questioned the coding procedures that Amnesty…
Letter to the Editor: Reply from Legal Adviser, Amnesty International to Ryan Goodman on Survey of Universal Jurisdiction
[Editor’s note: Ryan Goodman responds to this Letter to the Editor in a following post.] Dear Editor, I am writing with regard to the article “Counting Universal Jurisdiction…
More Breaking News: Adjournment Sought for the Kenyatta Proceedings
We’ve covered in the past (here, here and here) the legal and extra-legal efforts by Kenya and the Kenyan defendants before the ICC to get their case stayed or dismissed.…
Privacy and Data Collection/Retention in the EU: Villalón Opinion
On Thursday of last week, Advocate General Cruz Villalón (see here for a description of the role of the Advocate General and the non-binding nature of their Opinions) delivered…
The Parallels Between South African and U.S. Law On Universal Jurisdiction
The Parallels Between South African and U.S. Law On Universal Jurisdiction In an earlier post, we noted that the South African universal jurisdiction (UJ) statute is not particularly…
Amnesty International’s Survey on Universal Jurisdiction: A Reply to Kevin Jon Heller
Kevin Jon Heller has a post over at Opinio Juris responding to concerns I raised about Amnesty International’s survey of states that have adopted universal jurisdiction. Kevin…
Counting Universal Jurisdiction States: What’s Wrong with Amnesty International’s Numbers [Updated]
[Update: Kevin Jon Heller replies to Ryan’s post over at Opinio Juris. And Ryan responds to Kevin. Hugo Relva, Legal Adviser at Amnesty International submitted a Letter to the…
The Unexceptional Nature of the South African Universal Jurisdiction Law
In the wake of the moving funeral of Nelson Mandela, we have reported on the recent ruling of the South African Supreme Court of Appeal mandating that the National Prosecution…
International Human Rights Law and Preventive (Security) Detention: A European Exceptionalism?
1. Ryan Goodman is right when he states, in an earlier post on Just Security, that “a significant body of international human rights law clearly permits, and regulates, preventive…
Preview — Hassan v. UK
Tomorrow (December 11, 2013) the Grand Chamber of the European Court of Human Rights (the ECtHR) will hear the case of Hassan v. United Kingdom (Application No. 29750/09). The…