• U.N. Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination to Germany: to comply with your treaty obligations, you must punish this insensitive discussion of immigrants [Volokh, Bader]
• California’s Armenian genocide law entrenches on federal foreign affairs power [Ku/OJ]
• Heritage Foundation urges feds to overrule state marijuana laws on grounds of international treaty obligations [via @LucyStag]
• UN conventions ban torture, but that can bear meanings very different than in common parlance [Wesley Smith, Weekly Standard]
• Kiobel-aftermath marathon at Opinio Juris: Spiro, Lederman, Ku, Bellinger and Kontorovich, Alford, Phillips, Moyn, earlier here, here. More: Eugene Kontorovich podcast, Federalist Society.
• Underreported: how international vote buying influences outcomes in UN, similar bodies [Natalie Lockwood/OJ]
• Adding a Protocol: U.N. human rights chief “today welcomed the birth of a new mechanism which will empower individuals to seek out justice when their rights to food, adequate housing, education or health are violated.” [UN]

Filed under: Alien Tort Claims Act, international human rights, United Nations