Category: Blog
“A Recurring, Drug-Induced Nightmare”: The Congressional Hearings on MLB Steroids
The New York Times' Bats blog, written by Alan Schwartz, has been live blogging from the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform's hearing on Major League Baseball steroid use today. (Above: Former Senator George Mitchell, author of the "Mitchell Report" on MLB steroids, at today's hearing. Photo by...
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Three ex-Tepco executives to be indicted over Fukushima nuclear disaster
Three former executives of Tokyo Electric Power Co. will be indicted Monday for the allegedly failing to take measures to prevent the tsunami-triggered disaster at the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear plant, a lawyer in charge of the case said Friday. The three, who will face charges of professional negligence resulting...
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Updates on the Steroids Prosecutions
As the American steroids prosecutions drag on, they've claimed another victim: former San Francisco 49er Dana Stubblefield has pleaded guilty to "lying to federal agents about his use of performance-enhancing drugs," the San Jose Mercury News reports. Under the plea deal, he faces up to six months in prison. (Above:...
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Obama’s Climate Change Policy Gets a Hiccup from the Supreme Court
Last week, President Barack Obama’s Clean Power Plan took a back seat as the US Supreme Court decided to delay implementation of the policy. This plan was supposed to be the key to President Obama’s policy of climate change. His administration had already pledged to cut down greenhouse gas emissions...
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Lawsuit Filed Against State Of Connecticut For Ebola Confinement
This week law students working with Yale's Legal Department plan to file a class action lawsuit in Federal District court against Governor Malloy of Connecticut and the state's present and former health commissioners on behalf of residents who are were affected by the State's Ebola quantitative policies, which affected two...
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Compassion and IL
This is an interesting post from the Toronto Star highlighting what many people, especially in human rights and IL fields, have known or suspected for a long time — that people’s compassion with respect to mass incidents, particularly man-made (or partially man-made) mass attrocities, is limited, and often a single...
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Bird Flu and International Trade
With the recent finding in Britain of turkeys infected with the bird flu,Russia and Japan have put in place bans on British poultry. This raises an interesting issue at the intersection of international health law and international trade. When do countries violate international trade regimes by banning products from other...
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France’s Valdez: Erika in court
The Erika case regarding the 1999 oil disaster in Brittany started today in France and promises to provide a lot of insight not only into French and EU law, but also into the modern IL views on the environment and the oil industry. Here is a preview, along with the...
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International law in the 1L curriculum
This is somewhat rehashing old news, but I recently received a form letter from Dean Kagan outlining some of the changes to the 1L Curriculum at HLS, which includes, inter alia, a requirement of one of Public International Law, International Economic Law, or Comparative Law. A press release on the...
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International Positions and Sacrifice
Thusfar this blog has largely avoided some of the “big” current issues in international law, especially the Iraq war, for a number of reasons — in part because it is such a divisive issue but also because the law surrounding the field is in flux. But here I wanted to note that...
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