The Echidna Media Organization S.N.A.I.L. Project ([info]emosnail) wrote in [info]modelun,
2005-10-17 00:38:00
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International Legal Committee

   I'm the chair ("director") of the International Law Commission at the upcoming AmWest conference in Vegas. One of our topics is definitely going to be The Legal Status of Unlawful Combatants (think "Guatanamo Bay: Legal?"), but I'm not sure what other two topics to do. I'm definitely not doing the traditional cop out of "define terrorism." Thinking maybe something related like "extraordinary rendition" (when detainees are sent to a third counrty specifically because they can be tortured by that country), but that might be too closely related to the same thing (Gitmo). I found the list of pending agenda topics for the actual ILC, but none of them really stand out to me as good MUN material.

Anyone have any thoughts on subjects that international law does not currently address which would make a good topic? Or if you'd like to endorse one of hte listed ILC topics that would help me too. Thanks.

PS: Anyone out here going to AmWest? Going to be in the ILC perhaps?
PPS: Anyone just get back from CalMUN Anaheim, where I chaired the ILC this weekend?


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[info]mystache

October 17 2005, 10:52:48 UTC 6 years ago

Dont know anything about it, but responsibilites of international organizations at least sounds interesting.

[info]emosnail

October 17 2005, 23:09:33 UTC 6 years ago

The ILC Rappatoire

I emailed a distant relative who is a professor of international law for advise, and she informed me that she'd just been talking to the actual rappatoire of the actual ILC, and recommended liability of states for unintentional environmental damage (such as chernobyl), and applicability of diplomatic immunity to persons charged with war crimes. I was so excited to get recommendations from so awesome a source I'm thinking about posting another entry to this community about it.

[info]nvcarnie

October 17 2005, 17:57:36 UTC 6 years ago

Hmmm.... who participates in AmWest? I live in Vegas, but I graduated last semester, so I don't have a school or class group to go through.

Let's see ... in MUNFW I did the 5th committee .... redefining terrorism (total cop out, but it was fun to listen to the Americans get into it with Palistein - I was Argentina).

You could do something along the lines of "reviewing/renewing the Geneva Accords"

And then something like extraordinary rendition might be fun. :-) Good luck!

[info]emosnail

October 17 2005, 23:11:38 UTC 6 years ago

hmm. The staff is all miscellenious and the attending schools are from alll over. I think there _might_ be a way to register as a single delegate or something, I heard some delegate talk about doing that, I don't know. You could ask the governor-general at natedavis1614@yahoo.com

[info]emosnail

October 17 2005, 23:23:04 UTC 6 years ago

defining terrorism

Also I thought I'd note that I once had a lot of fun being Libya on the topic of defining terrorism. This was back before Bush had scared Libya into renouncing terrorism, so I teamed up with Cuba and Syria to define terrorism only as destroying stuff for no reason (ie suicide bombers might have a reason and thus be freedom fighters!). It was good times. Last year I was the United States, which of course made me once again have very specific motives as to shaping the definition. Its good times but its way too cliche a topic.

[info]comienzosnuevos

October 17 2005, 19:03:14 UTC 6 years ago

I was at CALMUN! We had a great experience, thanks for all your hard work!

[info]emosnail

October 17 2005, 23:06:32 UTC 6 years ago

CalMUN Anaheim

Awesome, what committee were you in?

[info]comienzosnuevos

October 19 2005, 01:49:07 UTC 6 years ago

Re: CalMUN Anaheim

Actually, I was head delegate from Soka University.

[info]emosnail

October 20 2005, 09:35:40 UTC 6 years ago

Re: CalMUN Anaheim

what countries did you have in ILC?

[info]comienzosnuevos

October 20 2005, 23:59:26 UTC 6 years ago

Re: CalMUN Anaheim

Japan

[info]emosnail

October 21 2005, 02:02:21 UTC 6 years ago

Re: CalMUN Anaheim

If Japan was in ILC they did not once comment or ask a question. I was keeping tally of how often I called on everyone in order to ensure maximum equity, and Japan has no tallies.

[info]comienzosnuevos

October 22 2005, 06:14:33 UTC 6 years ago

Re: CalMUN Anaheim

Really? He's fairly experienced so I wasn't checking up on him.
He had a decent speech prepared too.

[info]chubbiefingers

October 18 2005, 05:20:18 UTC 6 years ago

Hey how did AVC (Antelope Velley College) do? I was a former MUNer from that school. I guess their team is really big now, hoping they did well.....

[info]emosnail

October 20 2005, 22:18:08 UTC 6 years ago

AVC

I think I met some people from there. I don't know how well they did.

[info]woyce

October 18 2005, 07:51:29 UTC 6 years ago

the criteria for sovereignty is always fun to talk about and it's relevant at the moment with Kosovo starting their "talks." (You need talks to be sovereign? eh?)

[info]emosnail

October 20 2005, 22:22:19 UTC 6 years ago

good idea -- the threshhold for considering something "sovereign" is a big issue in my personal area of specialization, the caucasus, where you have places like Abkhazia that are essentially independant from Georgia, only they aren't.

I decided to go with the two the ILC rappatoire suggested to me, applicability of diplomatic protection to persons accused of international crimes, and liability for unintentional consequences of activities not prohibited by international law. I don't know shit about them but hey On High told me they were good so I'm sticking to it. That and my gitmo thing
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