Teaching plan

Notice: Any page references provided in this Course Outline are to facilitate student preparation for each lecture. They are not a substitute for the official reading list for which students are responsible on the final examination.

Location: Lectures take place in room 365, Domus Nova building (St. Olavs kvartal), from 10:15-12 unless stated otherwise.

Instruments:

• UN Resolution 1373
• Inter American Convention Against Terrorism
• OAU Convention on the Prevention and Combating of Terrorism
• EU Convention on the Suppression of Terrorism
• SAARC Convention

Website:

• http://treaties.un.org/Pages/DB.aspx?path=DB/studies/page2_en.xml&menu=MTDSG

Reading:

• Duffy, Chapter 2
• Karima Bennoune, Terror/Torture, 26 Berkeley Journal of International Law 1 2008

Websites:

• http://www.globalct.org/index.php
• http://www.un.org/News/Press/docs/2008/ga10735.doc.htm

Readings:

• Cumulative Handout of Cases and Materials (posted as .pdf on course website)
• Duffy, Chapter 7, pp. 274-347, 364-365

Instruments (all included in Cumulative Handout):

• Universal Declaration of Human Rights, Art. 3
• Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, Arts. 4 & 5
• Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, Arts. 4, 5, 6, 9, 10, 12. 14-16, & 19
• General Comment 10 on the Freedom of Expression, HRC (1983)
• General Comment 29 on States of Emergency, HRC (2001)
• Siracusa Principles on the Limitation and Derogation of Provisions in the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights
• Paris Minimum Standards of Human Rights Norms in a State of Emergency

Cases (all included in Cumulative Handout):

• Delgado Paez v. Columbia, 1985 HRC 195 (1990)
• Adrien Mundyo Busyo, et. al. v. Democratic Rep. of Congo, 2000 HRC 933 (2003)
• Jorge Landinelli Silva v. Uruguay, 1978 HRC R.8/34 (1981)
• The Greek Case, 12 EComm.HR 1 (1969)
• Adolfo Drescher Caldas v. Uruguay, 1979 HRC 43 (1990)
• Antti Vuolanne v. Finland, 1987 HRC 265 (1989)
• Ross v. Canada, 1997 HRC 736 (2000)
• Faurisson v. France, 1993 HRC 550 (1996)
• Concluding Observation on Guinea, HRC (1993)
• Compulsory Membership in an Association Prescribed by Law for the Practice of Journalism, Inter-American Court of HR Advisory Opinion OC-5/85 (1985)
• Jong-Kyu Sohn v. Republic of Korea, 1992 HRC 518 (1995)

Instruments:

• CAT, Articles 1 & 3 ; ICCPR, Art. 7
• CCPR General Comment 20 on Torture

Reading:

• Dr. Mohammed Saif-Alden Wattad, The Torturing Debate on Torture 29 Northern Illinois U. Law Review 1 (2008)

• Torture Memo

Case:

Ireland v. UK, ECHR

http://www.aclu.org/accountability/released.html

Instrument:

• CAT Agiza Case
• CAT General Comment 1 on Implementation of Article 3

 Reading:

• Louis Fisher, Extraordinary Rendition : The Price of Secrecy, 57 American U. Law Review 1404 (June 2008)

Reading:

• Duffy, Chapter 6 pages 217-228 and 249-273

Treaty Law:

• Common Articles 2 and 3 to Geneva Conventions of 1949
• Articles 4 and 5 of Geneva Convention Relative to the Treatment of Prisoners of War of August 12, 1949
• Articles 1 and 43- 45 of the Protocol Additional to the Geneva Conventions of 1949, and relating to the protection of victims of International Armed Conflict (Protocol I) of 8 June 1977

Jurisprudence:

• Prosecutor v Tadic ICTY Decision on the Defence Motion for Interlocutory Appeal on Jurisdiction (Appeals Chamber) paras. 65-70

Pleadings:

• Joint Defence Motion to Dismiss All Charges for Lack of Subject Matter Jurisdiction (Absence of Armed Conflict) 3 November 2008 - http://www.defenselink.mil/news/D-061%20Defense%20MTD%20for%20Lack%20of%20Jurisdiction%20(absence%20of%20armed%20conflict).pdf (Yet to be ruled on given the Commission Ruling of 12 June 2009 granting Prosecution Motion for Additional 120-Day Continuance and current further continuance on substantive matters, yet not discovery)

Government Documents:

• Legality of the Use of Military Commissions to Try Terrorists November 6 2001 Memorandum for the Counsel to the President (Office of Legal Counsel US Department of Justice) see - http://www.usdoj.gov/olc/2001/pub-millcommfinal.pdf

• “Protected Person” Status in Occupied Iraq Under the Fourth Geneva Convention March 18 2004 Memorandum for the Counsel to the President (Office of Legal Counsel US Department of Justice see - http://www.usdoj.gov/olc/2004/gc4mar18.pdf

Articles:

• Corn and Jensen, Transnational Armed Conflict: A "Principled" Approach to the Regualtion of Counter-Terrorism Combat Operations 42 Israel Law Review (2009) pages 1-34 available at SSRN – http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1256380

• Sassoli, M. Transnational Armed Groups and International Humanitarian Law HCPR Occsaional Paper Series Winter 2006 No. 6

• Jinks, D. September 11 and the Laws of War 28 Yale Journal International Law 15 (2003) pages 1-49

• Rona, Interesting Times for International Humanitarian Law Fletcher Forum of World Affairs Vol 27:2 Summer Fall (2003) available at ICRC website - http://www.icrc.org/Web/eng/siteeng0.nsf/htmlall/5PWELF/$File/Rona_terror.pdf

Optional Readings:

• Commentaries to Articles from Geneva Conventions and Additional Protocol I see http://www.icrc.org/Web/Eng/siteeng0.nsf/htmlall/genevaconventions and follow respective links

• Antonio Cassese, Terrorism is Also Disrupting Some Crucial Legal Categories of International Law 12 EJIL (2001) 993-1001

• Prosecutor v Tadic ICTY Appeal Judgment paragraphs 83-145

• Prosecutor v Thomas Lunanga Dyilo ICC Decision on the Confirmation of Charges paragraphs 200-237

• Marco Sassoli, Terrorism and War 4 JICL (2006) 959-981

• Ingrid Detter, The Law of War and Illegal Combatants 75 GWLR 5-6 (2007) 1049-1104

• US Department of Justice Memorandum of 22 January 02 http://fl1.findlaw.com/news.findlaw.com/hdocs/docs/doj/bybee12202mem.pdf

• White House Memoradum of 7 February 2002 http://www.pegc.us/archive/White_House/bush_memo_20020207_ed.pdf

Reading:

• Duffy Chapter 6, pages 228-249

Treaty Law:

• Articles 43- 45 and 50-51 of the Protocol Additional to the Geneva Conventions of 1949, and relating to the protection of victims of International Armed Conflict (Protocol I) of 8 June 1977

• Article 13 of the Protocol Additional to the Geneva Conventions of 1949, and relating to the protection of victims of Non-International Armed Conflict (Protocol I) of 8 June 1977

• Article 101-107, 110-111 United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea 1982

United Nations:

Security Council Resolutions:

• 1269 on the responsibility of the Security Council in the maintenance of international peace and security

• 1373 on threats to international peace and security caused by terrorist acts 1851 on the situation in Somalia

ICRC:

• Interpretive Guidance on the Notion of Direct Participation in Hostilities under International Humanitarian Law International Review of the Red Cross Vol. 90 No. 872 December 2008 991-1047

Pleadings:

• In Re: Guantanamo Bay Detainee Litigation Respondent’s Memorandum Regarding the Government’s Detention Authority Relative to Detainees Held at Guantanamo Bay 13 March 2009 District Court for the District of Columbia

Government documents

• SFRC Report 10 August 09 Afghanistan

Articles:

• Direct Participation in Hostilities and 21st Century Armed Conflict, in Crisis Management and Humanitarian Protection: Festschrift fur Dieter Fleck (Berlin: BWV, Horst Fischer et al eds., 2004), at 505-529.

• Bradley, C.A. and Goldsmith, J.L. Congressional Authorisation and the War on Terrorism Harvard Law Review 118 Harvard Law Review No 7. (2005) 2047-2133

• Kontorovich, E. Guantanamo on the Sea The Difficulties of Prosecuting Pirates and Terrorists Northwestern University School of Law Public Law and Legal Theory Series No.09-10, see http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1371122 Due to be published California Law Review Vol. 98 February 2010 pages 1-39

• Treves, T. Piracy, Law of the Sea, and the Use of Force: Developments off the Coast of Somalia European Journal of International Law (2009) Vol. 20 No.2 399-414

Optional Readings:

• Commentaries to Articles from Additional Protocols I and II see http://www.icrc.org/Web/Eng/siteeng0.nsf/htmlall/genevaconventions and follow respective links

• ICRC Report on the Treatment of Fourteen “High Value Detainees” in CIA Custody (in particular Section 4)

• Humanitarian Law and Direct Participation in Hostilities by Private Contractors or Civilian Employees 5 Chicago Journal of International Law 511-546 (2005)

• Simpson, G. Law War and Crime Chapter 7

• Halberstam, M. Terrorism on the High Seas: The Achille Lauro, Piracy and the IMO Convention on Maritime Safety 82 American Journal of International Law (1988) 269-310

• SUA Convention Articles 3-7

Mandatory readings:

• Prosecutor v. Galic, paras. 63-138 (Trial Judgement) and paras. 79-109 (Appeal Judgement) http://www.icty.org/case/galic/4

• Duffy, chap. 4 (esp. pp. 73-117)

• Mark A. Drumbl, Transnational Terrorist Financing: Criminal and Civil Perspectives, 9 GERMAN LAW JOURNAL (2008), pp. 933-943 (http://www.germanlawjournal.com/pdf/Vol09No07/PDF_Vol_09_No_07_933-944_Developments_Drumbl.pdf

Optional readings:

• Prosecutor v. Galic (Trial Judgement), Judge Nieto-Navia's separate and partially dissenting opinion, paras. 108-113 http://www.icty.org/case/galic/4

• Duffy, chap. 4 (pp. 117-143)

• Jeanne K. Giraldo and Harold A. Trinkunas, Terrorist Financing: Explaining Government Responses, in TERRORIST FINANCING AND STATE RESPONSES: A COMPARATIVE PERSPECTIVE, pp. 282-296 (2007)

Mandatory readings:

• Hamdan v. Rumsfeld et al., pp. 20-73 http://www.supremecourtus.gov/opinions/05pdf/05-184.pdf

• Boumediene et al. v. Bush et al., pp. 8-70 http://www.supremecourtus.gov/opinions/07pdf/06-1195.pdf

Optional readings:

• Hamdan v. Rumsfeld et al., Justice Kennedy's partially concurring opinion http://www.supremecourtus.gov/opinions/05pdf/05-184.pdf

• Hamdan v. Rumsfeld et al., Justice Thomas' dissenting opinion http://www.supremecourtus.gov/opinions/05pdf/05-184.pdf

• Boumediene et al. v. Bush et al., Justice Robert's dissenting opinion http://www.supremecourtus.gov/opinions/07pdf/06-1195.pdf

• Boumediene et al. v. Bush et al., Justice Scalia's dissenting opinion http://www.supremecourtus.gov/opinions/07pdf/06-1195.pdf

• Duffy, chap. 8 (esp. pp. 379-430)

Mandatory readings:

• Philippe Sands, Torture Teams: Uncovering War Crimes in the Land of the Free (Penguin 2009), pp. 211-294

• Duffy, chap. 8 (esp. pp. 430-442)

Optional readings:

• United States of America v. Josef Altstoetter et al. ("The Justice Case"), pp. 1081-1177 http://www.loc.gov/rr/frd/Military_Law/pdf/NT_war-criminals_Vol-III.pdf

Extra:

Special Film: Torturing Democracyhttp://www.torturingdemocracy.org/