Category Archives: International law

“Veiled Threat”

By Arun | Published: July 15, 2010
Nussbaum’s piece for the NYTimes on why the burqa ban does not suit the liberal democracies of Europe. Great read – she rips apart legal and moralistic arguments for such a ban, piece by piece. I’ve pasted disjunctive extracts here. The criticism is based primarily on inviolable philosophical underpinnings, and how the said reasons fail [...]
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Incorporating “Aggression” into the Rome Statute: challenges and consequences

By Arani | Published: June 7, 2010
Over at the Kampala Review Conference delegates from aroud the world are in the process of incorporating the international crime of “aggression” into the roster of indictable offences already under the Rome Statute (genocide, war crimes, crimes against humanity). The implications of such an insertion are significant, and in this post I am going to [...]
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There’s two sides to every story: more on the flotilla attack

By Arani | Published: June 2, 2010
Chandni Goel sent me a forward this morning of a mail written by one of her classmates from Radzyner School of Law, Israel. I reproduce the mail below: From: Ella Ran Date: Tue, Jun 1, 2010 at 9:59 PM Subject: There’s two sides to every story. Here you can see up close footage of yesterdays [...]
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NGOs issue statement against Gaza flotilla attack

By Arani | Published: June 2, 2010
Israel could not have chosen a worse timing for its displays of military acumen. Over at the ICC Review Conference at Kampala a coalition of international humanitarian NGOs have issued a no-bones-about-it statement against the flotilla attack: This tragedy is the result of the prolonged impunity granted to Israel by the international community, despite Israel’s [...]
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Can the Vatican be sued?

By Arani | Published: April 4, 2010
The Times Online carried this piece a week ago: NEW revelations about Pope Benedict XVI’s alleged role in covering up accusations of sexual abuse by Catholic clergy have exposed the Vatican to the risk of lawsuits brought by victims around the world. Mounting anger at the Catholic Church’s failure to act on predatory priests in [...]
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The Life and Times of ElBaradei

By Arun | Published: November 27, 2009
Referring twice to Dick Cheney as “Darth Vader,” ElBaradei told me in an interview that “U.S. policy consisted of two mantras — Iran should not have the knowledge and should not spin one single centrifuge. They kept saying, wait, Iran is not North Korea, it will buckle. That was absolutely a mistake.” Roger Cohen, NYT [...]
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