{"title":"An Evaluation of the U.S. Policy of \"Targeted Killing\" under International Law: The Case of Anwar Al-Aulaqi (Part II)","authors":"J. Rylatt","doi":"10.2139/SSRN.2555017","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2139/SSRN.2555017","url":null,"abstract":"During the past decade, the U.S. policy of conducting extraterritorial \"Targeted Killings\" against individuals linked with terrorist activities has been met with skepticism and scrutiny. However, while the strikes have followed transnational terrorists targeted by the United States into sovereign States such as Afghanistan, Pakistan, Yemen and Somalia, the United States has consistently denied any illegality, with reference to the \"war against Al-Qaeda,\" and their right to self-defense in the wake of 9/11. This article evaluates the U.S. legal justifications for drone strikes with reference to the highly controversial case of Anwar Al-Aulaqi, a U.S.-Yemeni citizen killed by a Predator drone on September 30, 2011, following his identification by the United States as a senior operational leader of Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP).","PeriodicalId":80857,"journal":{"name":"California Western international law journal","volume":"44 1","pages":"115-147"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-06-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"68201252","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Can Alternative Dispute Resolution Mechanisms Become the Default Method for Solving International Intellectual Property Disputes","authors":"J. Werra","doi":"10.2139/SSRN.2195968","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2139/SSRN.2195968","url":null,"abstract":"This essay explores how the use of alternative dispute resolution (ADR) mechanisms can be promoted to solve international IP disputes. It presents the case of internet domain name dispute resolution and focus particularly on the Uniform Domain Name Dispute Resolution Policy (UDRP) and the way in which this policy has been adopted as a model by legislators. On this basis, it analyzes how, and under what conditions, other types of IP ADR systems can be developed in light of the UDRP, and will explore whether ADR systems can become the default method for solving international IP disputes.","PeriodicalId":80857,"journal":{"name":"California Western international law journal","volume":"43 1","pages":"39-75"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-12-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"67980111","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Should the Law Governing Maritime Areas in the Arctic Adapt to Changing Climatic Circumstances","authors":"E. Franckx","doi":"10.1007/978-1-4020-9542-9_6","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-9542-9_6","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":80857,"journal":{"name":"California Western international law journal","volume":"48 ","pages":"119-143"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1007/978-1-4020-9542-9_6","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"50933962","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Redefining parenthood.","authors":"R Halperin-Kaddari","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":80857,"journal":{"name":"California Western international law journal","volume":"29 2","pages":"313-37"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1999-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"22266749","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A Puzzle of Sovereignty","authors":"Steven Lee","doi":"10.4324/9781351150361-2","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4324/9781351150361-2","url":null,"abstract":"The subject of the sovereignty of the nation-state presents a puzzle. On the one hand, the notion of state sovereignty figures importantly in our descriptions of, and our prescriptions for, global political change. For example, a natural characterization of the political changes in Eastern Europe preceding and following the demise of the Soviet Union is that a number of political communities have vigorously and often successfully asserted claims to sovereignty. More generally, most of the events in the world political arena are naturally understood as the sovereign actions of states. In addition, many complain that sovereignty stands in the way of solutions to many of the world's most pressing problems and ought to be abandoned, thereby implying that it remains a reality. Thus, the notion of sovereignty continues to apply to the realities of international political life and retains its explanatory efficacy. Against this is the claim that, as a result of the contemporary realities of global affairs, sovereignty has become irrelevant, an anachronistic notion. What is meant is not that sovereignty ought to be abandoned, that it is, as it were, normatively irrelevant (though this claim is often made as well), but rather that it has already ceased to exist. On this view, there are factors that have drained states of their sovereignty by depriving them of the ability to protect themselves and their citizens from the negative effects of the actions of other states or outside groups. The most important of these factors is the","PeriodicalId":80857,"journal":{"name":"California Western international law journal","volume":"27 1","pages":"2"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1997-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"70462661","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The International Crime of Ecocide","authors":"M. A. Gray","doi":"10.4324/9781315092591-12","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315092591-12","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":80857,"journal":{"name":"California Western international law journal","volume":"26 1","pages":"3"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1996-12-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"70628964","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}