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My dear friend Steve Bainbridge has an outstanding post on the criteria used by law schools in hiring faculty.  Drawing upon comments from Brent E. Newton, Deputy Staff Director, U.S. Sentencing Commission, and, like yours truly, an adjunct professor at Georgetown University Law Center, Steve opines that “[m]aybe 20 years ago law schools valued things like high grades, law review …

Diane Marie Amann over at IntLawGrrls posts:

Delighted to announce that IntLawGrrls again will cosponsor the International Humanitarian Law Dialogs at the Chautauqua Institution in upstate New York, not far from another cosponsor, the Robert H. Jackson Center.
The theme of this year’s 4th annual Dialogs, to be held August 29 to 31, is timely given the outcome of the International Criminal …

From the Human Rights First website:
This week’s podcast comments on the military commissions trial of the alleged child soldier, Omar Khadr. The first military commissions trial under the Obama Administration, this is also the first time since World War II that a western country tries a so-called “child soldier.” Another reminder of how flawed and defective this “justice” system is, …

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 …

Tom Goldstein over at SCOTUSBlog opines that Neal Katyal is likely to be nominated to be the next Solicitor General. Goldstein writes:

The interim appointment of an Acting Principal Deputy Solicitor General this week got me thinking about the choice of a successor to Elena Kagan as Solicitor General.  I don’t know precisely where the process stands (and in fact, I …

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 …

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 …