by Brian Itami | Apr 25, 2011 | Features, Online Edition
By Brian Itami — On April 1, 2010, the International Court of Justice (ICJ) upheld Russian preliminary objections in its dispute with Georgia over the application of the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination (CERD)...
by Brian Itami | Jun 16, 2010 | Uncategorized
By Brian Itami, NSJ Senior Editor – Over the last week and a half, at least fourteen Americans were detained on terrorism charges in the United States and Yemen in two separate incidents. Law enforcement officials arrested Mohamed Alessa and Carlos Almonte on...
by Brian Itami | Apr 5, 2010 | Uncategorized
By Brian Itami, NSJ Staff Editor – On Wednesday, March 31, four past and current military lawyers participated in a panel at Harvard Law School entitled “The Indeterminacy of International Humanitarian Law”. The event, sponsored by the National Security...
by Brian Itami | Mar 7, 2010 | Uncategorized
By Brian Itami, NSJ Staff Editor – It is increasingly likely that the U.S. government will use military commissions to help bring about the closure of its detention facility at Guantanamo Bay and to help resolve the question of what to do with the prison’s...
by Brian Itami | Oct 21, 2009 | Uncategorized
By Brian Itami, HLS 2012 NSJ Staff Writer The Obama Administration’s Sudan policy, unveiled on Monday, October 19, 2009, maintains support for the prosecution of President Omar al-Bashir in the International Criminal Court (ICC) despite seeking greater engagement with...