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The Evil Dictator's Guide to Genocide: Deliberate Infectious Disease Spread

Permalink 28 April 09    Inside Justice ®   Renee Dopplick    Tags: Health, International Criminal Law    
One year ago, I wrote a small booklet, "The Evil Dictator's Guide to Genocide: Deliberate Infectious Disease Spread," to accompany a presentation I gave on possible criminal culpability for intentional infectious disease spread. "The Evil Dictator's Guide to Genocide" provides Machiavellian guidance on the benefits, risks, and possible legal consequences of using infectious diseases as weapons against targeted or vulnerable populations. The recent swine flu outbreak, along with my post yesterday discussing the lack of the World Health Organization's enforcement authority, reminded me again of the ease by which an evil leader could take advantage of this latest disease outbreak. Back by popular demand, you can download a copy of the booklet for free. Circulation to evil dictators is prohibited by law. More

SOLON War Crimes Conference - Retrospectives and Prospects

Permalink 28 April 09    Inside Justice ®   Renee Dopplick    Tags: Human Rights, Conferences, International Criminal Law    
The SOLON War Crimes Conference, themed "Retrospectives and Prospects," took place on 19-21 February 2009 at the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, London University, in association with SOLON and The Institute of Historical Research. Reprinted here with permission is the conference report and transcript of the plenary talk by Lesley Abdela. More


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Return of the State
This article is the extended address by José E. Alvarez, the Herbert and Rose Rubin Professor of International Law at New York University School of Law, at the University of Minnesota Law School's conference on "International Economic Law in a Time of Change." Alvarez relects upon and rebuts a collection of papers on supra-nationalism presented at the conference. He argues that states, as sovereign entities, are making a comeback. The full-text is available online for free.

Whither Justice? Uganda and Five Years of the International Criminal Court Michael Drexler argues that the International Criminal Court is pursuing an inappropriate engagement strategy in Uganda by ignoring the impacts of criminal prosecution and investigation on the prospects for peace to the country's decades-long conflict. It is published by the peer-reviewed Interdisciplinary Journal of Human Rights Law (IJHRL) and is available online for free.

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