The Human Rights & Humanitarian Law issues area encompasses recent developments in the field of human rights, including contemporary issues related to gender equality, minority rights, trade and human rights, and the domestic incorporation and enforcement of international norms. Developments concerning the status and application of the laws of war and the Geneva Conventions generally as well as in the context of combating terrorism will also be addressed.

Publications

The Security Council and the Intervention Brigade: Some Legal Issues
Bruce 'Ossie' Oswald
June 06, 2013

Genocide and War Crimes in National Courts: the Conviction of Rios Montt in Guatemala and its Aftermath
Naomi Roht-Arriaza
May 23, 2013

Supreme Court Holds That Alien Tort Statute Does Not Apply to Conduct in Foreign Countries
Curtis A. Bradley
April 18, 2013

International Law Issues in the Department of Justice White Paper on Targeted Killing
David Kaye
February 15, 2013

The Law That Applies to Autonomous Weapon Systems
Jeffrey S. Thurnher
January 18, 2013

Venezuela's Denunciation of the American Convention on Human Rights
Diego Germán Mejía-Lemos
January 09, 2013

• Legal Implications of the UN General Assembly Vote to Accord Palestine the Status of Observer State By John Cerone, ASIL Insights, December 7, 2012
• Strengthened Protection for Internally Displaced Persons in Africa: The Kampala Convention Comes Into Force By Mike Asplet and Megan Bradley, ASIL Insights, December 7, 2012
• The Duty to Consult in the Inter-American System: Legal Standards after Sarayaku By Lisl Brunner and Karla Quintana, ASIL Insights, November 28, 2012
• U.S. Court Issues Writ of Mandamus, Effectively Removing Organization from Terror List: In Re People’s Mojahedin Organization of Iran By Tom Syring, ASIL Insights, November 16, 2012
• Assange and the Law of Diplomatic Relations By Alison Duxbury, ASIL Insights, October 11, 2012
• Belgium v. Senegal: The International Court of Justice Affirms the Obligation to Prosecute or Extradite Hissène Habré Under the Convention Against Torture By Cindy Galway Buys, ASIL Insights, September 11, 2012
• Ballplayer: Pelotero—Major League Baseball, Human Rights, and the Globalization of Baseball By Arturo J. Marcano and David P. Fidler, ASIL Insights, August 22, 2012
• The Spanish Civil War, Amnesty, and the Trials of Judge Garzón By Naomi Roht-Arriaza, ASIL Insights, July 25, 2012
• The Internet, Human Rights, and U.S. Foreign Policy: The Global Online Freedom Act of 2012 By David P. Fidler, ASIL Insights, May 24, 2012
• European Court of Human Rights Protects Migrants Against "Push Back" Operations the High Seas By Jan Arno Hessbruegge, ASIL Insights, April 17, 2012
• Thomas Lubanga: War Crimes Conviction in the First Case at the International Criminal Court By Alison Cole and Kelly Askin, ASIL Insights, March 27, 2012
• The U.N. Security Council and the Crisis in Syria By Saira Mohamed, ASIL Insights, March 26, 2012
• The Reargument Order in Kiobel v. Royal Dutch Petroleum and Its Potential Implications for Transnational Human Rights Cases By Chimène I. Keitner, ASIL Insights, March 21, 2012
• The 2011 Update of the OECD Guidelines for Multinational Enterprises By Jernej Letnar Cernic, ASIL Insights, February 10, 2012
• Risky Research and Human Health: The Influenza H5N1 Research Controversy and International Law By David P. Fidler, ASIL Insights, January 19, 2012
• Epilogue to Hotel Rwanda
  By Gregory Townsend, ASIL Insights, December 7, 2011
• Outside the United States, Extraordinary Rendition on Trial
  By Alka Pradhan, ASIL Insights, November 2, 2011
• Targeting Versus Deprivation of Liberty Under the International Law of Armed Conflict
  By Ramin Mahnad, ASIL Insights, November 1, 2011
• The Netherlands Found Liable for Srebrenica Deaths
  By Cees van Dam, ASIL Insights, September 19, 2011.
• Protecting Children from Cyber Crime: The Twentieth Session of the UN Commission on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice
  By Keith A. Petty, ASIL Insights, September 1, 2011.
• Rwanda's Gacaca Courts: Implications for International Criminal Law and Transitional Justice
  By Shannon E. Powers, ASIL Insights, June 23, 2011.
• Recognition of the Libyan National Transitional Council
  By Stefan Talmon, ASIL Insights, June 16, 2011.
• International Law and Foreign Laws in the U.S. State Legislatures
  By Aaron Fellmeth, ASIL Insights, May 26, 2011.
• Towards a Less Secular Europe? The Decision of the Grand Chamber of the European Court of Human Rights in Lautsi v. Italy
  By Silvia Borelli, ASIL Insights, May 12, 2011.
• Special Tribunal for Lebanon Issues Landmark Ruling on Definition of Terrorism and Modes of Participation
  By Michael P. Scharf, ASIL Insights, March 4, 2011.
• European Court of Human Rights' Judgment on Expulsion of Asylum Seekers: M.S.S. v. Belgium & Greece By Tom Syring , ASIL Insights, February 24, 2011.
• ECOWAS Court Judgment in Habré v. Senegal Complicates Prosecution in the Name of Africa By Jan Arno Hessbruegge, ASIL Insights, February 03, 2011.
• Beyond Kampala: Next Steps for U.S. Principled Engagement with the International Criminal Court By Beth Van Schaack, Ron Slye, Michael A. Newton, Leila Nadya Sadat, David Tolbert, Valerie Oosterveld, David Scheffer, and John Cerone, ASIL Discussion Paper Series, November, 2010.
• The ICC Appeals Chamber Decision on the Warrant of Arrest in Prosecutor v. Bashir By Saira Mohamed, ASIL Insights, February 17, 2010.
• The ICC Appeals Chamber Judgment on the Legal Characterization of the Facts in Prosecutor v. Lubanga By Amy Senier , ASIL Insights, January 8, 2010.
• Issues of International Law Interest before the 64th Session of the United Nations General Assembly By Larry D. Johnson, ASIL Insights, November 4, 2009.
• Who can be detained in the "War on Terror"? The Emerging Answer By Faiza Patel, ASIL Insights, October 20, 2009.
• ICTY Special Chamber Decision In the Case Against Florence Hartmann By Benjamin E. Brockman-Hawe, ASIL Insights, October 9, 2009.
• The Goldstone Report By David Kaye, ASIL Insights, October 1, 2009.
• Wiwa v. Shell: The $15.5 Million Settlement By Ingrid Wuerth, ASIL Insights, September 9, 2009.
• Eritrea-Ethiopia Claims Commission: Damage Awards By Michael J. Matheson, ASIL Insights, September 4, 2009.
• Special Tribunal for Lebanon: The First Orders by the Pre-Trial Judge By Antonios Tzanakopoulos, ASIL Insights, August 7, 2009.
• The UNHCR’S Guidance Note on Refugee Claims Relating to Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity By Nicole LaViolette, ASIL Insights, July 30, 2009.
• Is Bagram the New Guantánamo? Habeas Corpus and Maqaleh v. Gates By Kal Raustiala, ASIL Insights, June 18, 2009.
• Ten Years After the War in Kosovo: International Law, Kosovo and the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia By Linda Strite Murnane, ASIL Insights, June 10, 2009.
• The Torture Memos and Accountability By Allen S. Weiner, ASIL Insights, May 15, 2009.
• The Swine Flu Outbreak and International Law By David P. Fidler, ASIL Insights, April 27, 2009.
• International Legal Responses to Piracy off the Coast of Somalia By Eugene Kontorovich, ASIL Insights, February 6, 2009.
• Global Witness v. Afrimex Ltd.: Decision Applying OECD Guidelines on Corporate Responsibility for Human Rights By Jernej Letnar Cernic, ASIL Insights, January 23, 2009.
• Proceedings of the Second International Humanitarian Law Dialogs By Elizabeth Andersen and David Crane, eds., Studies in Transnational Legal Policy, 2009.
• U.S. Policy Toward the International Criminal Court: Furthering Positive Engagement By ASIL Task Force Members William H. Taft (co-chair), Patricia M. Wald (co-chair), Mickey Edwards, Michael A. Newton, Sandra Day O'Connor, Stephen M. Schwebel, David Tolbert, Ruth Wedgwood, and Project Director Laura M. Olson, March 2009.
• Proceedings of the First International Humanitarian Law Dialogs By David Crane and Elizabeth Andersen, eds., Studies in Transnational Legal Policy, 2008.
• Guiding Principles on Internal Displacement: Annotations, Revised Edition By Walter Kälin, Studies in Transnational Legal Policy, 2008.
• Can Might Make Rights? Building the Rule of Law After Military Interventions By Jane Stromseth, Rosa Brooks, and David Wippman, Cambridge University Press, 2006.
• The ICTR Appeals Chamber judgment in Prosecutor v. Seromba By Gregory Townsend, ASIL Insights, August 8, 2008.
• ICC Prosecutor charges the President of Sudan with genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes in Darfur By Marko Milanovic, ASIL Insights, July 28, 2008.
• Supreme Court Holds that Noncitizens Detained at Guantanamo Have a Constitutional Right to Habeas Corpus Review by Federal Civilian Courts By Andrew Kent, ASIL Insights, June 20, 2008.
• The 2008 Ruggie Report: A Framework for Business and Human Rights By Christina Ochoa, ASIL Insights, June 18, 2008.
• Prosecutor v. Brima, Kamara, and Kanu: First Judgment from the Appeals Chamber of the Special Court for Sierra Leone By Charles C. Jalloh and Janewa Osei-Tutu, ASIL Insights, May 20, 2008.
• Saadi v Italy: European Court of Human Rights Reasserts the Absolute Prohibition on Refoulement in Terrorism Extradition Cases By Fiona de Londras, ASIL Insights, May 13, 2008.

Events, Seminars, Conferences

• The International Criminal Court: Beyond Kampala, ASIL Event (November 30, 2010)
• A Comparative Look at Domestic Enforcement of International Tribunal Decisions , ASIL 103rd Annual Meeting: International Law as Law (March 26, 2009)
• Feminist Interventions: Human Rights, Armed Conflict and International Law, ASIL 103rd Annual Meeting: International Law as Law (March 26, 2009)
• The Principle of Legality in International Criminal Law , ASIL 103rd Annual Meeting: International Law as Law (March 26, 2009)
• Closing Guantánamo: The Legal and Policy Issues , ASIL 103rd Annual Meeting: International Law as Law (March 26, 2009)
• New Voices: Issues in the Human Side of International Law , ASIL 103rd Annual Meeting: International Law as Law (March 27, 2009)
• The Future of Corporate Accountability for Violations of Human Rights , ASIL 103rd Annual Meeting: International Law as Law (March 27, 2009)
• Direct Participation in Hostilities: Operationalizing the ICRC's Guidance (Resource Session), ASIL 103rd Annual Meeting: International Law as Law (March 27, 2009)
• Presentation and Discussion of the ASIL Task Force Report on US Policy Towards the International Criminal Court, ASIL 103rd Annual Meeting: International Law as Law (March 27, 2009)
• Anthropological Perspectives on Human Rights Law and Lawyers , ASIL 103rd Annual Meeting: International Law as Law (March 27, 2009)
• International Law and the "War on Terror:" A Look Back , ASIL 103rd Annual Meeting: International Law as Law (March 27, 2009)
• Evolutions of the Jus ad Bellum: The Crime of Aggression , ASIL 103rd Annual Meeting: International Law as Law (March 28, 2009)
• Civilians on the Battlefield: Direct Participation in Hostilities under International Humanitarian Law (February 21, 2008)
• Atrocity Crimes Litigation Year-in-Review (2007) Conference (January 25, 2008)
• Customary International Humanitarian Law: Assessing The Impact Of The 2005 ICRC Report (November 8, 2007)
• The International Humanitarian Law Dialogs: The Laws of War: Past, Present, and Future (August 29, 2007)

Research Tools

• Timely Topics: ICC Review Conference Resources
• Timely Topics: Military Commissions Act of 2006 Resources
• EISIL Resources on International Human Rights Law
• EISIL Resources on International Humanitarian Law
• EISIL Resources on International Criminal Law
• Electronic Research Guide: Human Rights
• Electronic Research Guide: International Criminal Law