Kevin Jon Heller
@kevinjonheller.bsky.social
Professor of International Law & Security, University of Copenhagen, Centre for Military Studies. Special Adviser to the ICC Prosecutor on War Crimes. Academic Member, Doughty Street Chambers (UK). Arsenal, Bears, Magpies, All Blacks.
Reposted by Kevin Jon Heller
Promoting the editor-in-chief's personal side project. Zero named sources in a story that promotes the editor-in-chief's personal political position. Misspelling the subject's name. It took one day for CBS News to become a conservative blog.
www.cbsnews.com/video/some-n...
www.cbsnews.com/video/some-n...
October 13, 2025 at 4:02 PM
Promoting the editor-in-chief's personal side project. Zero named sources in a story that promotes the editor-in-chief's personal political position. Misspelling the subject's name. It took one day for CBS News to become a conservative blog.
www.cbsnews.com/video/some-n...
www.cbsnews.com/video/some-n...
I won't comment on the substance, but @middleeasteye-rss.bsky.social has a new story about a recording of the Ugandan member of the ASP Bureau making prejudicial comments about the investigation of the Prosecutor. www.middleeasteye.net/news/exclusi...
Exclusive: ICC senior officials accused of 'prejudice' over Karim Khan probe
Vice president of court oversight body met Khan’s accuser before case was referred to UN, while another member appeared to presume prosecutor’s guilt in prurient remarks
www.middleeasteye.net
October 13, 2025 at 3:22 PM
I won't comment on the substance, but @middleeasteye-rss.bsky.social has a new story about a recording of the Ugandan member of the ASP Bureau making prejudicial comments about the investigation of the Prosecutor. www.middleeasteye.net/news/exclusi...
Today!
If you're in Copenhagen October 10, come see Andrew Cayley KC, who ran the Palestine investigation at the #ICC, give a
Centre for Military Studies talk entitled "The Future of International Criminal Justice: An Insider’s View." 15:00 at the Law Faculty. Register: cms.polsci.ku.dk/events/the-f...
Centre for Military Studies talk entitled "The Future of International Criminal Justice: An Insider’s View." 15:00 at the Law Faculty. Register: cms.polsci.ku.dk/events/the-f...
The Future of International Criminal Justice: An Insider’s View
International Criminal Justice is facing a tipping point. Questions about its efficacy, its efficiency and a hostile political climate are raising doubts about its relevance and, even further, its ver...
cms.polsci.ku.dk
October 10, 2025 at 6:56 AM
Today!
This Friday! Come.
If you're in Copenhagen October 10, come see Andrew Cayley KC, who ran the Palestine investigation at the #ICC, give a
Centre for Military Studies talk entitled "The Future of International Criminal Justice: An Insider’s View." 15:00 at the Law Faculty. Register: cms.polsci.ku.dk/events/the-f...
Centre for Military Studies talk entitled "The Future of International Criminal Justice: An Insider’s View." 15:00 at the Law Faculty. Register: cms.polsci.ku.dk/events/the-f...
The Future of International Criminal Justice: An Insider’s View
International Criminal Justice is facing a tipping point. Questions about its efficacy, its efficiency and a hostile political climate are raising doubts about its relevance and, even further, its ver...
cms.polsci.ku.dk
October 7, 2025 at 7:02 AM
This Friday! Come.
Reposted by Kevin Jon Heller
This reminds me of when @kevinjonheller.bsky.social wrote about the Obama administration’s killing of Anwar al-Awlaki and it apparently (allegedly) changed its argument midstream in response to his blogpost on Opinion Juris
Spoke with @charliesavage.bsky.social about how the administration is trying to backfill a legal rationale for US strikes in the Caribbean.
Seems by "determining" there is an armed conflict—without any basis in fact or law—POTUS is giving himself a license to kill.
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/02/u...
Seems by "determining" there is an armed conflict—without any basis in fact or law—POTUS is giving himself a license to kill.
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/02/u...
Trump ‘Determined’ the U.S. Is Now in a War With Drug Cartels, Congress Is Told
www.nytimes.com
October 2, 2025 at 7:04 PM
This reminds me of when @kevinjonheller.bsky.social wrote about the Obama administration’s killing of Anwar al-Awlaki and it apparently (allegedly) changed its argument midstream in response to his blogpost on Opinion Juris
If you're in Copenhagen October 10, come see Andrew Cayley KC, who ran the Palestine investigation at the #ICC, give a
Centre for Military Studies talk entitled "The Future of International Criminal Justice: An Insider’s View." 15:00 at the Law Faculty. Register: cms.polsci.ku.dk/events/the-f...
Centre for Military Studies talk entitled "The Future of International Criminal Justice: An Insider’s View." 15:00 at the Law Faculty. Register: cms.polsci.ku.dk/events/the-f...
The Future of International Criminal Justice: An Insider’s View
International Criminal Justice is facing a tipping point. Questions about its efficacy, its efficiency and a hostile political climate are raising doubts about its relevance and, even further, its ver...
cms.polsci.ku.dk
September 25, 2025 at 4:28 PM
If you're in Copenhagen October 10, come see Andrew Cayley KC, who ran the Palestine investigation at the #ICC, give a
Centre for Military Studies talk entitled "The Future of International Criminal Justice: An Insider’s View." 15:00 at the Law Faculty. Register: cms.polsci.ku.dk/events/the-f...
Centre for Military Studies talk entitled "The Future of International Criminal Justice: An Insider’s View." 15:00 at the Law Faculty. Register: cms.polsci.ku.dk/events/the-f...
I have finished the first draft of my new article, "A Stillborn Green Revolution: How Elite Activism During the Vietnam War Undermined Wartime Environmental Protection and Doomed the Crime of Ecocide." 33K words, 535 footnotes. Can't wait to share it!
September 22, 2025 at 12:23 PM
I have finished the first draft of my new article, "A Stillborn Green Revolution: How Elite Activism During the Vietnam War Undermined Wartime Environmental Protection and Doomed the Crime of Ecocide." 33K words, 535 footnotes. Can't wait to share it!
*Now* it cares about federal statutes?
President Trump is expected to sign an executive order tomorrow giving the Defense Department a "secondary title" as the Department of War. White House officials now confirming.
Looks like a way to use the title while juggling the law -- the 1947 National Security Act -- that gave DoD its name.
Looks like a way to use the title while juggling the law -- the 1947 National Security Act -- that gave DoD its name.
September 5, 2025 at 1:23 PM
*Now* it cares about federal statutes?
Typically excellent article from Charlie Savage. But I wish he had spent a bit more time on the international-law issues. The statement by Anna Kelly, the White House spokesperson, is remarkable for how much it manages to get wrong in a mere 42 words.
Trump Claims the Power to Summarily Kill Suspected Drug Smugglers
The move to treat criminals as if they were wartime combatants escalated an administration pattern of using military force for law enforcement tasks at home and abroad.
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/04/u...
The move to treat criminals as if they were wartime combatants escalated an administration pattern of using military force for law enforcement tasks at home and abroad.
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/04/u...
Trump Claims the Power to Summarily Kill Suspected Drug Smugglers
www.nytimes.com
September 5, 2025 at 11:42 AM
Typically excellent article from Charlie Savage. But I wish he had spent a bit more time on the international-law issues. The statement by Anna Kelly, the White House spokesperson, is remarkable for how much it manages to get wrong in a mere 42 words.
Wherein I further endear myself to the Trump administration by making clear that the attack on the Venezuelan drug-trafficking boat was a clear violation of international human rights law. (My thanks to @elizlanders.bsky.social for the interview.) video.snapstream.net/Play/1LL3E8j...
Scripps News - 3:00 PM - 4:00 PM - U.S. Strikes Venezuelan Narco-Boat, Raising Legal Concerns
And here is the clip featuring your intv! Thank you! - Powered by SnapStream Cloud Sharing
video.snapstream.net
September 4, 2025 at 8:44 PM
Wherein I further endear myself to the Trump administration by making clear that the attack on the Venezuelan drug-trafficking boat was a clear violation of international human rights law. (My thanks to @elizlanders.bsky.social for the interview.) video.snapstream.net/Play/1LL3E8j...
Fun fact: in 1972, "Apple Pie," a TV ad created by religious antiwar activists and Mad Men that decried US tax dollars being spent on “bombs instead of schools, defoliation instead of clean air and water, tanks instead of trains," won the Clio Award -- Madison Avenue's Oscar.
August 22, 2025 at 8:54 AM
Fun fact: in 1972, "Apple Pie," a TV ad created by religious antiwar activists and Mad Men that decried US tax dollars being spent on “bombs instead of schools, defoliation instead of clean air and water, tanks instead of trains," won the Clio Award -- Madison Avenue's Oscar.
Reposted by Kevin Jon Heller
Art of the deal.
August 21, 2025 at 8:17 PM
Art of the deal.
Apparently the US has now sanctioned both #ICC Deputy Prosecutors, Khan and Niang, as well as Judge Guillou of France and Judge Prost of Canada. sanctionssearch.ofac.treas.gov
Sanctions List Search
sanctionssearch.ofac.treas.gov
August 20, 2025 at 2:51 PM
Apparently the US has now sanctioned both #ICC Deputy Prosecutors, Khan and Niang, as well as Judge Guillou of France and Judge Prost of Canada. sanctionssearch.ofac.treas.gov
Disturbing fact of the day: between 1965 and 1973, the US used nearly 31 billion pounds of munitions in Indochina, more than 7X the total amount used in WW II -- and equivalent to dropping one Hiroshima-sized atomic bomb on Indochina every five days for eight years, 600 in all.
August 18, 2025 at 1:42 PM
Disturbing fact of the day: between 1965 and 1973, the US used nearly 31 billion pounds of munitions in Indochina, more than 7X the total amount used in WW II -- and equivalent to dropping one Hiroshima-sized atomic bomb on Indochina every five days for eight years, 600 in all.
I miss the good old days when rugged, square-jawed, non-woke white warriors led the US Armed Forces to glorious victory. Warriors like Gen. William Westmoreland in Vietnam.
Clausewitz would kill these guys lol
August 15, 2025 at 7:06 PM
I miss the good old days when rugged, square-jawed, non-woke white warriors led the US Armed Forces to glorious victory. Warriors like Gen. William Westmoreland in Vietnam.
Noted without comment.
Exclusive: ICC arrest warrant applications ready for Israel's Ben Gvir and Smotrich on apartheid charges - https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/icc-arrest-warrant-applications-ready-israel-itamar-ben-gvir-bezalel-smotrich-apartheid-charges
Exclusive: ICC arrest warrant applications ready for Israel's Ben Gvir and Smotrich on apartheid charges
The applications are in the hands of two deputy prosecutors in Karim Khan's absence, but ICC sources are concerned they will not submit them for fear of sanctions
www.middleeasteye.net
August 15, 2025 at 2:29 PM
Noted without comment.
Make sure to read my friend and colleague @lisadavisnyc.bsky.social's new article in @foreignpolicy.com, "The ICC’s Arrest Warrants Against Taliban Leaders Are Historic." (They certainly are!) #ICC foreignpolicy.com/2025/08/08/i...
The ICC’s Arrest Warrants Against Taliban Leaders Are Historic
The top court’s decision sets a clear precedent that persecuting LGBTQ people is a crime against humanity.
foreignpolicy.com
August 8, 2025 at 8:15 PM
Make sure to read my friend and colleague @lisadavisnyc.bsky.social's new article in @foreignpolicy.com, "The ICC’s Arrest Warrants Against Taliban Leaders Are Historic." (They certainly are!) #ICC foreignpolicy.com/2025/08/08/i...
No, it is not acceptable to "Use an AI chatbot as a writing partner to help generate and develop ideas." Not even with citation.
No, it is not acceptable to "Write an essay/chapter. Ask AI to add additional points." Not even with citation.
Did AI write @historians.org's guiding principles?
No, it is not acceptable to "Write an essay/chapter. Ask AI to add additional points." Not even with citation.
Did AI write @historians.org's guiding principles?
The AHA has published Guiding Principles for Artificial Intelligence in History Education, offering a disciplinary approach to AI that focuses on the specific needs and challenges of history educators. 🗃️
Guiding Principles for Artificial Intelligence in History Education
These 14 foundational principles are meant to assist educators and administrators in crafting AI policies suited to local circumstances and the specific needs of students.
www.historians.org
August 6, 2025 at 8:35 AM
No, it is not acceptable to "Use an AI chatbot as a writing partner to help generate and develop ideas." Not even with citation.
No, it is not acceptable to "Write an essay/chapter. Ask AI to add additional points." Not even with citation.
Did AI write @historians.org's guiding principles?
No, it is not acceptable to "Write an essay/chapter. Ask AI to add additional points." Not even with citation.
Did AI write @historians.org's guiding principles?
Noted without comment because I can't stop laughing long enough to say anything.
August 4, 2025 at 8:38 PM
Noted without comment because I can't stop laughing long enough to say anything.
Reposted by Kevin Jon Heller
Donald Trump has fired the commissioner of the Bureau of Labor Statistics in a rambling Truth Social post where he put his own name in quotation marks, raising new questions about Biden's mental fortitude.
August 2, 2025 at 11:11 AM
Donald Trump has fired the commissioner of the Bureau of Labor Statistics in a rambling Truth Social post where he put his own name in quotation marks, raising new questions about Biden's mental fortitude.
The only voices Trump trusts are the ones he hears in his head.
REPORTER: Why did you fire the head of the bureau of labor statistics?
TRUMP: Because I thought her numbers were wrong
TRUMP: Because I thought her numbers were wrong
August 2, 2025 at 8:24 AM
The only voices Trump trusts are the ones he hears in his head.
This is another interesting article by
@stephmaupas.bsky.social, one that covers much of the same ground as the @middleeasteye-rss.bsky.social blockbuster. www.lemonde.fr/article-offe...
@stephmaupas.bsky.social, one that covers much of the same ground as the @middleeasteye-rss.bsky.social blockbuster. www.lemonde.fr/article-offe...
Israël-Gaza : la CPI dans la tourmente
Pressions, menaces, sanctions : les Etats-Unis, leur allié israélien et quelques pays européens ont multiplié, depuis le printemps 2024, les manœuvres visant à empêcher l’inculpation de Benyamin Nétan...
www.lemonde.fr
August 1, 2025 at 4:50 PM
This is another interesting article by
@stephmaupas.bsky.social, one that covers much of the same ground as the @middleeasteye-rss.bsky.social blockbuster. www.lemonde.fr/article-offe...
@stephmaupas.bsky.social, one that covers much of the same ground as the @middleeasteye-rss.bsky.social blockbuster. www.lemonde.fr/article-offe...
This is one of the coolest flyers ever. If you happen to be in Istanbul next week, come!
August 1, 2025 at 3:39 PM
This is one of the coolest flyers ever. If you happen to be in Istanbul next week, come!
Reposted by Kevin Jon Heller
But how can you redact a name from a set of files when that name isn’t in that set of files when that set of files doesn’t exist even thought Obama, Clinton, and JFK created the files themselves?
August 1, 2025 at 3:03 PM
But how can you redact a name from a set of files when that name isn’t in that set of files when that set of files doesn’t exist even thought Obama, Clinton, and JFK created the files themselves?