Overlawyered » international human rights http://overlawyered.com Chronicling the high cost of our legal system Tue, 14 Feb 2012 18:22:52 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 Long-arm blasphemy prosecution http://overlawyered.com/2012/02/long-arm-blasphemy-prosecution/ http://overlawyered.com/2012/02/long-arm-blasphemy-prosecution/#comments Sun, 12 Feb 2012 05:03:36 +0000 Walter Olson http://overlawyered.com/?p=27533 Islamists are demanding the execution of Saudi journalist Hamza Kashgari over tweets, since retracted, that they say are blasphemous toward their religion. Malaysia has detained Kashgari and may extradite him to face the charges; according to reports, the international police organization had put out an order for his arrest at the behest of the Saudi government [Guardian, Nina Shea/NRO, Daily Beast, Reason, Facebook support page, blog, #FreeHamza]

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]]> http://overlawyered.com/2012/02/long-arm-blasphemy-prosecution/feed/ 2 “Human rights court blocks Abu Qatada deportation” http://overlawyered.com/2012/01/human-rights-court-blocks-abu-qatada-deportation/ http://overlawyered.com/2012/01/human-rights-court-blocks-abu-qatada-deportation/#comments Mon, 30 Jan 2012 16:29:49 +0000 Walter Olson http://overlawyered.com/?p=27224 British prime minister David Cameron is fuming over the latest in a long string of rulings by the European Court of Human Rights, which now has stepped in to protect a militant Islamist cleric from deportation to Jordan, where he has been convicted in absentia of plotting terrorist attacks. [Independent, Telegraph]

More: Cameron calls for reform of ECHR, says it is turning into court of “fourth instance” for general appeal of British judicial decisions [Telegraph, Guardian, New Statesman, Conservative Home]

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]]> http://overlawyered.com/2012/01/human-rights-court-blocks-abu-qatada-deportation/feed/ 0 International law roundup http://overlawyered.com/2012/01/international-law-roundup/ http://overlawyered.com/2012/01/international-law-roundup/#comments Tue, 10 Jan 2012 05:13:07 +0000 Walter Olson http://overlawyered.com/?p=26443
  • More on John Fonte’s new book Sovereignty or Submission [FrontPage interview, W. James Antle III/Washington Times, Clifford May via Israpundit, earlier here and here] U.N. Human Rights Council finds much to criticize about U.S. rights record, including inadequate attention to rights of clean water and sanitation; State Department response to “universal periodic review”;
  • “The President Can’t Increase Congress’s Power Simply by Signing a Treaty” [Ilya Shapiro, Cato, on Supreme Court case of U.S. v. Bond]
  • Another “international norms vs. American sentencing practices” showdown headed to SCOTUS? [Hans Bader]
  • France, Turkey restrict talk of Armenian genocide in opposite ways, and both are wrong [Walter Russell Mead]
  • Transnational prosecutions on an inexorable upward arc? Depends on how you count them [Jeremy Rabkin, TAI]
  • International law pressed into use to remake family law and gender customs [Stephen Baskerville]
  • “Time to Fix the European Court of Human Rights?” [Julian Ku, Opinio Juris]
  • “We are fighting the caste system with capitalism”: open market in India helps Dalits [NY Times]
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    ]]>     http://overlawyered.com/2012/01/international-law-roundup/feed/ 2     Claim: voter ID requirements violate international law http://overlawyered.com/2011/12/claim-voter-id-requirements-violate-international-law/ http://overlawyered.com/2011/12/claim-voter-id-requirements-violate-international-law/#comments Fri, 16 Dec 2011 14:34:36 +0000 Walter Olson http://overlawyered.com/?p=26279 The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) is asking the UN high commissioner on human rights to rule various American states in violation of international law because of the states’ insistence on various restrictions on the franchise, including ID requirements for voters, denial of the vote to convicted felons, and measures that “have reduced the ease of early voting, a convenience that is disproportionately heavily used by African-Americans.” [Guardian; Caroline May, Daily Caller]

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    ]]>     http://overlawyered.com/2011/12/claim-voter-id-requirements-violate-international-law/feed/ 16     Labor law roundup http://overlawyered.com/2011/12/labor-law-roundup/ http://overlawyered.com/2011/12/labor-law-roundup/#comments Sat, 10 Dec 2011 12:24:30 +0000 Walter Olson http://overlawyered.com/?p=25844
  • Union withdraws, and NLRB drops, complaint against Boeing over plant location decision [Adler, earlier] “Sen. Johnny Isakson (R-GA) Introduces Bill to Reverse NLRB’s ‘Micro-Union’ Decision” [LRT via @jonhyman] Video of “Organized Labor & Obama administration” panel [Federalist Society convention]
  • Suing Atlantic City is an established sport for current, former employees [Press of AC] After lawsuit win, former Gotham sanitation worker litters neighborhood with cars [NY Post via Christopher Fountain] Why have House, Senate reversed usual ideological lines on federal employee workers’-comp reform? [WaPo]
  • Murder of reformist professors reinforces difficulty of changing Italian labor law [Tyler Cowen] UK considers relaxing “unfair dismissal” controls on employers [BBC, earlier]
  • Taylor Law and NYC transit strike: “ILO Urges that U.S. Stop Violating International Obligations It Hasn’t Agreed To” [Ku, OJ; Mitch Rubinstein, Adjunct Law Prof]
  • Maryland’s misnamed 2009 “Workplace Fraud Act” bedevils carpet installers and other firms that employ contract workers, and perhaps that was its point [Ed Waters Jr./Frederick News-Post, Weyrich Cronin & Sorra, Floor Daily]
  • “Government pay is higher” [Stoll] Notwithstanding “Occupy” themes, interests of unions and underemployed young folks might not actually be aligned very well [Althouse]
  • More on outcry over proposed federal restrictions on kids’ farm chores [WSJ, NPR, Gannett Wisconsin, CEI, earlier]
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    ]]>     http://overlawyered.com/2011/12/labor-law-roundup/feed/ 0     Red Cross considers crackdown on videogame “war crimes” http://overlawyered.com/2011/12/red-cross-considers-crackdown-on-videogame-war-crimes/ http://overlawyered.com/2011/12/red-cross-considers-crackdown-on-videogame-war-crimes/#comments Mon, 05 Dec 2011 05:07:25 +0000 Walter Olson http://overlawyered.com/?p=26118 Next up, regicide on the chessboard? “One of the world’s largest and most respected humanitarian groups … is investigating whether the Geneva and Hague conventions should be applied to the fictional recreation of war in video games.” [Kotaku]

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    ]]>     http://overlawyered.com/2011/12/red-cross-considers-crackdown-on-videogame-war-crimes/feed/ 10     November 26 roundup http://overlawyered.com/2011/11/november-26-roundup-4/ http://overlawyered.com/2011/11/november-26-roundup-4/#comments Sat, 26 Nov 2011 17:21:39 +0000 Walter Olson http://overlawyered.com/?p=25340
  • “Ohio Attorney Sues Over Misleading Emails, Even Though He Wasn’t Misled” [Chris Danzig, Above the Law]
  • Feds say new EPA-ordered fuel economy standards could add $2000 to price of new car [C.J. Ciamarella, Daily Caller] More: WSJ.
  • Las Vegas considers following Chicago’s lenders-must-cut-grass folly [Kevin Funnell, earlier] “The Fed actually does impose, via legal risk, a de facto ceiling on mortgage rates.” [Mark Calabria, Cato]
  • 2nd Circuit: Prison Litigation Reform Act curbs attorney fee shift at 150% of cash won, and yes, that applies to a $1 award [PoL] Panel on attorneys’ fees in class actions at Federalist Society convention [video, PoL]
  • John McClaughry reviews Reckless Endangerment, Morgenson/Rosner book on financial crisis [Reason]
  • Daniel Hannan on John Fonte’s new book on transnational law, Sovereignty or Submission [Telegraph, and see chapters 11-12 of Schools for Misrule] International human rights activism pushes into “economic rights” [James P. Kelly III, Federalist Society "Engage"] NGOs exercise oft-envied combination of power without responsibility [Anderson] UK attorney general Dominic Grieve takes on the European court of human rights [Joshua Rozenberg, Guardian] UN battle plan on non-communicable diseases aims to save us from ourselves;
  • Sans statutory authority, EPA wanders into “environmental justice” [PowerLine]
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    ]]>     http://overlawyered.com/2011/11/november-26-roundup-4/feed/ 0     “Has Amnesty International Jumped the Shark?” http://overlawyered.com/2011/10/has-amnesty-international-jumped-the-shark/ http://overlawyered.com/2011/10/has-amnesty-international-jumped-the-shark/#comments Sat, 22 Oct 2011 05:37:21 +0000 Walter Olson http://overlawyered.com/?p=25235 Julian Ku at Opinio Juris is not impressed with the NGO’s demand that the government of Canada arrest former U.S. President George W. Bush, and neither is George Jonas, writing in Canada’s National Post. Related: John Fonte (Hudson) on his new book, “Sovereignty or Submission: Liberal Democracy or Global Governance?” [Foreign Policy Research Institute]

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    ]]>     http://overlawyered.com/2011/10/has-amnesty-international-jumped-the-shark/feed/ 8     UK: “Evicted gipsies launch human rights claim” http://overlawyered.com/2011/08/uk-evicted-gipsies-launch-human-rights-claim/ http://overlawyered.com/2011/08/uk-evicted-gipsies-launch-human-rights-claim/#comments Thu, 11 Aug 2011 14:16:43 +0000 Walter Olson http://overlawyered.com/?p=24195 “A gipsy family accused of making life a misery is using legal aid to fund a human rights challenge in the European courts for being evicted – from a travellers’ camp.” [Telegraph]

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    ]]>     http://overlawyered.com/2011/08/uk-evicted-gipsies-launch-human-rights-claim/feed/ 0     Dodd-Frank “conflicts minerals” provision devastates Congolese http://overlawyered.com/2011/08/dodd-frank-conflicts-minerals-provision-devastates-congolese/ http://overlawyered.com/2011/08/dodd-frank-conflicts-minerals-provision-devastates-congolese/#comments Tue, 09 Aug 2011 11:03:23 +0000 Walter Olson http://overlawyered.com/?p=24197 David Aronson, New York Times:

    The “Loi Obama” or Obama Law — as the Dodd-Frank Wall Street reform act of 2010 has become known in the [central African] region — includes an obscure provision that requires public companies to indicate what measures they are taking to ensure that minerals in their supply chain don’t benefit warlords in conflict-ravaged Congo. The provision came about in no small part because of the work of high-profile advocacy groups like the Enough Project and Global Witness, which have been working for an end to what they call “conflict minerals.”

    Unfortunately, the Dodd-Frank law has had unintended and devastating consequences, as I saw firsthand on a trip to eastern Congo this summer. …

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