Live From L: The Arab
Spring in international law
February 23rd, 2012
12:00 PM
George Washington
University School of Law
Jacob Burns Moot Court
Room
Harold Hongju Koh,
Legal Adviser, U.S. Department of State
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Libya Legal
(listserve)
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Did not forget
grabbing (complimentary) cookie, sandwich, and soda when leaving after the
event
Emily Kimball,
Attorney Adviser, Office of United Nations Affairs
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ICC
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O Campo v. Chamber as
to complementarity issue ; during Q&A session, Emily said she did not really see issue with Gadafi's death in terms of international criminal law. (correct me if I am wrong). but, there might be one issue, I guess, which is surrender. (the same goes for Bin Laden, as well). If rebel guys killed Qadafi who surrendered, it "might" have been violation of IHL
Meg Pickering,
Attorney Adviser, Office of Legislation and Foreign Assistance
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Foreign assistance
(aid) – using tax-payer’s dollars, congressional authorization (it turned out that they like ready to eat meal very much) ; made it possible to find out stinger missile
Margaret Taylor,
Attorney Adviser, Office of Economic and Business Affairs
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Economic sanction (the
US sanction)
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How to help rebel guys
benefit from their own resources, such as oil.
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A guy called Tom
Gabriel Swiney,
Attorney Adviser, Office of United Nations Affairs
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UN SC -- (i) peacekeeping, (ii) (UN) sanction),
(iii) use of force
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Arab nations and A.U. –
their role in legitimatizing UNSC Res
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UNSC Res 1970 v. 1973
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Fancy people talk
during day time, and working level people work over the night to put into appropriate
wording what they scrambled
o
Who can physically go
and fight? if not specified, anybody can go shoot; if specified as NATO, reminiscent
of imperialism or colonialism,
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The thrilling three
days ; extraordinarily quick move by UNSC
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Russia, Lebanon
Intervention
Embassy – withdrawal of
from Libya, re-establishment of in Bengazi
Recognition of,
de-recognition of
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Once de-recognized, it
is no longer liable for its activity
Economic sanction
Protection of US
citizens
Presidential war power
Human rights
Accountability – ICC
Chemical weapon
