http://www.opiniojuris.org/ en-us 2008-06-29T17:06+00:00 http://www.opiniojuris.org/posts/1214760889.shtml The NY Times Week in Review has an article written by Graham Bowley on the effect of recent attacks by Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND) on... Chris Borgen 2008-06-29T17:06+00:00 http://www.opiniojuris.org/posts/1214436935.shtml WorldPublicOpinion.org has released an interesting survey of world attitudes toward torture. Here is the summary of their findings:... Kevin Jon Heller 2008-06-25T23:06+00:00 http://www.opiniojuris.org/posts/1214338825.shtml A recent op-ed published in the New York Times suggested that the states of the United States should do just that. Thomas W. Evans, who had been an adviser to... Chris Borgen 2008-06-24T20:06+00:00 http://www.opiniojuris.org/posts/1213287684.shtml As our Boumediene instant symposium gets underway, I thought it might be interesting to note that the Israeli Supreme Court has just upheld the Incarceration of Unlawful Combatants Law, which... Kevin Jon Heller 2008-06-12T16:06+00:00 http://www.opiniojuris.org/posts/1211640542.shtml Wednesday’s NY Times had a good essay by Thomas Friedman on the current evolution of the global distribution of power. He argues that there are actually three shifts taking place:... Chris Borgen 2008-05-24T14:05+00:00 http://www.opiniojuris.org/posts/1210952827.shtml In a strange move, the Supreme Court on Monday affirmed the ATS Apartheid case of Khulamani v. Barclay Bank (recaptioned at the Supreme Court as American Isuzu Motors v. Ntsebeza).... Roger Alford 2008-05-16T15:05+00:00 http://www.opiniojuris.org/posts/1210043789.shtml It's true. She was born a Canadian (and presumably remains one, joining the legions of dual citizens). Said Anderson of the development:... Peter Spiro 2008-05-06T04:05+00:00 http://www.opiniojuris.org/posts/1209572319.shtml The American Lawyer has just published a great article on the future of law firms. The bottom line: successful law firms will be global operations with thousands of lawyers led... Roger Alford 2008-04-30T16:04+00:00 http://www.opiniojuris.org/posts/1209487319.shtml Last week a Florida state court rendered an interesting decision on the scope of application of the Warsaw Convention. The court recognized that state tort law is preempted by the... Roger Alford 2008-04-29T16:04+00:00 http://www.opiniojuris.org/posts/1209058328.shtml Story here and here. On the one hand, it nicely demonstrates of the dangers of local foreign policy. Local pols decide to do some showboating, out of their depth... Peter Spiro 2008-04-24T17:04+00:00 http://www.opiniojuris.org/posts/1208964511.shtml One of the unintended consequences of the movement to hold corporations liable for aiding and abetting human rights abuses is that doing so may prove to be the most effective way... Roger Alford 2008-04-23T15:04+00:00 http://www.opiniojuris.org/posts/1208788968.shtml John Ruggie, the Special Representative of the Secretary-General on Human Rights and Transnational Corporations, issued a draft report last week that "presented a conceptual and policy framework to anchor the... Roger Alford 2008-04-21T14:04+00:00 http://www.opiniojuris.org/posts/1208467480.shtml Last week State Department Legal Adviser John Bellinger delivered an important speech at Vanderbilt Law School on Alien Tort Statute litigation. The speech was a fascinating analysis of the... Roger Alford 2008-04-18T04:04+00:00 http://www.opiniojuris.org/posts/1208193816.shtml Free speech at the Beijing Olympics is becoming a hot topic. IOC President Jacques Rogge held a press conference last week taking a firm line restricting all political speech anywhere... Roger Alford 2008-04-14T17:04+00:00 http://www.opiniojuris.org/posts/1207348354.shtml Ninth Circuit Chief Judge Alex Kozinski declared in a speech today that the First Amendment is dead. In a keynote speech entitled “The Late, Great First Amendment” given at a... Roger Alford 2008-04-04T22:04+00:00