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Over at TechCrunch, Michael Arrington tells the story of Samasource, a nonprofit organization working to help those in the developing world:
San Francisco based Samasource is on a mission to help women, refugees and young people in developing countries earn a living wage on the Internet. The model is straightforward – Samasource works with companies that need certain types of relatively …

My great friend and rights advocate extraordinaire, Joe Grieboski, is taking on a noble project: tweeting the Constitution of the United States. Over at Just Joe, he explains:
I have watched with great interest and concern over the last few years as the Constitution of the United States, one of man’s most brilliant developments and the foundation of all that we …

The American Constitution Society for Law and Society  (ACS) recently posted Professor Vladeck’s issue brief. From ACS’s website:
ACS is pleased to distribute “Trying Terrorism Suspects in Article III Courts: The Lessons of United States v. Abu Ali,” an Issue Brief by Stephen I. Vladeck, Professor of Law at American University Washington College of Law. This paper is being released amidst …

This is a strange trial for so many reasons. And now, the Christian Science Monitor reports today:
The Guantánamo war crimes tribunal of a Canadian national accused of murdering a US special forces soldier in Afghanistan has been postponed for a least a month after his defense lawyer became ill during the first day of the trial.
Army Lt. Col. Jon Jackson …

Charli Carpenter and Dan Drezner have an article on new media and international relations in the new International Studies Perspectives. Focusing on blogs and social network sites, they explain in their abstract:
The International Relations (IR) profession has not fully taken stock of the way in which user-driven information technologies—including Blogger, Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, and Wikipedia—are reshaping our professional activities, our …

My dear friend and collaborator, Professor Robert J. Beck, has just published an article in International Studies Perspectives on the use of an online component in teaching international law. Entitled, “Teaching International Law as a Partially Online Course: The Hybrid ⁄ Blended Approach to Pedagogy,” the abstract of the article follows:
This article recounts the author’s experience of teaching International Law …

The AP is reporting:
Bosnia’s top war crimes court has confirmed genocide indictments against four former Bosnian Serb soldiers suspected of killing more than 800 people in the 1995 Srebrenica massacre.The court said Friday that the indictment alleges that Franc Kos, Branimir Manojlovic, Stanko Kojic and Vlastimir Golijan killed ”with the aim of destroying, in whole or in part, the national, …

With a big Hat Tip to Bobby Chesney . . . The ICRC has just created an online data base on customary international humanitarian law. From its website:

This database is the online version of the Study on customary international humanitarian law, conducted by the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) and published by Cambridge University …