http://www.opiniojuris.org/ en-us 2008-07-03T13:07+00:00 http://www.opiniojuris.org/posts/1215062415.shtml Antoine Buyse at the ECHR Blog has posted an analysis of Gafgen v. Germany, a decision handed down by the ECHR on Monday concerning the admissibility of evidence... Chris Borgen 2008-07-03T05:07+00:00 http://www.opiniojuris.org/posts/1214891520.shtml The persecution continues:... Kevin Jon Heller 2008-07-01T05:07+00:00 http://www.opiniojuris.org/posts/1214619084.shtml This sounds complicated but important:... Julian Ku 2008-06-28T10:06+00:00 http://www.opiniojuris.org/posts/1214326588.shtml I have blogged recently about the EU's encouraging -- if insufficient -- criticism of Italy's shameful persecution of its Roma population. On Friday, the Council of Europe added its... Kevin Jon Heller 2008-06-24T16:06+00:00 http://www.opiniojuris.org/posts/1214099913.shtml How did I miss this story?... Julian Ku 2008-06-22T12:06+00:00 http://www.opiniojuris.org/posts/1213239973.shtml Very encouraging news out of Serbia -- Stojan Zupljanin, the commander of the Bosnian police during the war, has been arrested and will be handed over to the ICTY for... Kevin Jon Heller 2008-06-12T03:06+00:00 http://www.opiniojuris.org/posts/1213014852.shtml In an important first, Roma gathered in Rome on Sunday to protest their continued harrassment and persecution at the hands of the Italian government:... Kevin Jon Heller 2008-06-09T12:06+00:00 http://www.opiniojuris.org/posts/1212678155.shtml Dr. Antoine Buyse of the Netherlands Institute of Human Rights (SIM), Utrecht University, has started a new blog on the European Convention on Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms.... Chris Borgen 2008-06-05T15:06+00:00 http://www.opiniojuris.org/posts/1211241509.shtml They number at least 12,000,000, though a precise count is impossible because many governments refuse to consider them a legitimate category for census purposes. They suffer serious and widespread employment discrimination,... Kevin Jon Heller 2008-05-20T03:05+00:00 http://www.opiniojuris.org/posts/1210000749.shtml One of the more intriguing questions from the oral argument in the child rape death penalty case of Kennedy v. Louisiana is whether evolving standards of decency are a one-way... Roger Alford 2008-05-05T15:05+00:00 http://www.opiniojuris.org/posts/1209675270.shtml I'll strike this up to strange timing. On the same day of reports of increasing tensions between Russia and Georgia, including Russian troop movements along the Russian/Georgian border and an... Chris Borgen 2008-05-01T20:05+00:00 http://www.opiniojuris.org/posts/1209583030.shtml Now here is a great legal question regarding geographic appellations: Is the term "lesbian" something that the residents of Lesbos, Greece have a... Roger Alford 2008-04-30T19:04+00:00 http://www.opiniojuris.org/posts/1209141586.shtml Here is a sample of some of the wonderful map art of Susan Stockwell:... Roger Alford 2008-04-25T16:04+00:00 http://www.opiniojuris.org/posts/1205872689.shtml As expected, during today's Supreme Court oral argument in District of Columbia v. Heller there was no discussion whatsoever of comparative analysis of gun control laws in other countries... Roger Alford 2008-03-18T20:03+00:00 http://www.opiniojuris.org/posts/1205866827.shtml The final group of amicus briefs I would like to highlight compares the firearm death rates in different countries to argue for and against gun control. An amicus brief by the... Roger Alford 2008-03-18T19:03+00:00