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Quoted In The Guardian Article, "Woman Seized In Anti-Isis Raid Poses Policy Problems For Us", Mary O'Connell

Mary Ellen O'Connell

Mary Ellen O’Connell, a professor of international law at the University of Notre Dame, said that under international law, the US is technically required to hand Umm Sayyaf over to the government of the Syrian dictator, Bashar al-Assad. “We don’t want to do that, obviously,” she said.

“The next best thing,” O’Connell said, would be to rely on the International Committee of the Red Cross for “removing her to a place of detention, in a place where she will be treated according to international humanitarian law, and I would ask the International Committee of the Red Cross to make that …

International Criminal Law: Year In Review 2014-2015, Mark A. Drumbl

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This publication is based on Professor Drumbl's remarks on September 1, 2015, at the Ninth International Humanitarian Law Dialogs held in Chautauqua, New York.

What I do not want to do is review and repeat what has already been said about the international arena. I thought what I would do is boil it down to a couple observations that I have about the activities at the international institutions over the past year, and discuss four elements that have emerged.

One is transition. What I mean by this is that the work of a number of the international institutions is winding …