Maximo Langer (UCLA): The Archipelago and the Hub: Universal Jurisdiction and the International Criminal Court. Peter J. Spiro (Temple): A New International Law of Citizenship. Emily Crawford (Sydney): Climate Change, Sovereignty and Statehood. From H-Net, a review of A World Beyond Borders: An Introduction to the History of International Organizations by David MacKenzie; and a review of Unpacking International Organisations: The Dynamics of Compound Bureaucracies by Jarle Trondal, Martin Marcussen, Torbjorn Larsson, Frode Veggeland. On international criminal justice: An interview with Andrew Cayley, presently the International Co-Prosecutor of the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia. Haiti doesn't need your old t-shirt: The West can (and should) stop dumping its hand-me-downs on the developing world. Just what is a just war? Charles Homans on a short history of the "Responsibility to Protect" doctrine. From The American Interest, Jeremy Rabkin reviews The Justice Cascade: How Human Rights Prosecutions Are Changing World Politics by Kathryn Sikkink and Prosecuting Heads of State by Ellen L. Lutz and Caitlin Reiger (and more). The appearance of Viktor Bout, the so-called "Merchant of Death," in a Manhattan courtroom represents a milestone in the long battle to stop the black market arms trade. Charles Kenny reviews Poor Economics: A Radical Rethinking of the Way to Fight Global Poverty by Abhijit Banerjee and Esther Duflo. The wrong moral revolution: David Rieff reviews Empire of Humanity: A History of Humanitarianism by Michael Barnett (and more). Is famine a crime against humanity? Christopher R Albon wonders. Why Libya must send Saif Gaddafi to The Hague: Having captured Saif, the colonel’s former heir, Libyan leaders want to set up their own trial — Geoffrey Robertson on why that’s a terrible idea.
