T. Markus Funk is a former Oxford law professor who has worked for the U.S. Departments of Justice and State and the author of the new book Victims’ Rights and Advocacy at the International Criminal Court (he was also a Reason contributor in the 1990s).
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Recently at Reason.tv: T. Markus Funk on The International Criminal Court
T. Markus Funk is a former Oxford law professor who has worked for the U.S. Departments of Justice and State and the author of the new book Victims’ Rights and Advocacy at the International Criminal Court (he was also a Reason contributor in the 1990s). Drawing on his experiences as a legal observer in Kosovo, Funk has written a book that provides insight and criticism of the way the International Criminal Court has functioned and, more importantly, should function. His book, writes Enver Hasani of the Kosovo Constitutional Court, “is a perfectly candid, and at times quite disheartening, assessment of the ICC’s shortcomings, while also acknowledging its strengths.
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T. Markus Funk on The International Criminal Court
Since I am currently in Norway, where the media possesses infinite patience for the debate over causing “offense” to the religious, and considering that we will be publishing reader-submitted cartoons of Mohammad in solidarity with Matt Stone and Trey Parker next month, a few regional updates are perhaps worth noting. Kurt Westergaard, the elderly Danish artists behind the infamous “bomb in the turban” cartoon, was forcibly retired from his job at Jyllands-Posten last week because he has been tagged as a “security risk.” An understandable concern, considering Westergaard was attacked in his apartment earlier this year (He scrambled into a panic room; his attacker was shot by police), but still rather depressing. AFP reports : “It is forced vacation but it looks a lot like I’m being retired,” the 75-year-old cartoonist said, adding that he himself still had an “insatiable desire” to work.
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Another Awesome Week for Free Speech
With approximately 150 exhibitors showcasing their wares and pitching their services, the 2010 International Cannabis and Hemp Expo featured everything from a hydroponic grow room encased in a 40-foot truck trailer to the Prop 215 Tent, where attendees equipped with medical marijuana cards could light up, vaporize, consume medibles, or otherwise treat themselves. And as Greg Beato reports after attending the Expo on Saturday, the medical marijuana industry’s future looks as bright as the interior of a mobile grow lab equipped with 1000 watt MH/HPS lights and highly reflective wall coverings.
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New at Reason: Greg Beato Reports from the International Cannabis and Hemp Expo
Hit & Run stalwart and blogger extraordinaire Alan Vanneman tipped me toward just about the oddest article I’ve encountered in The New York Times. It’s a retraction: In 1994, Philip Bowring, a contributor to the International Herald Tribune’s op-ed page, agreed as part of an undertaking with the leaders of the government of Singapore that he would not say or imply that Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong had attained his position through nepotism practiced by his father Lee Kuan Yew
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Will The New York Times Now Apologize For Not Having a Comics Section?
In a study just published by the International Journal of Obesity , Cornell marketing professor Brian Wansink teams up with his brother Craig Wansink, a professor of religious studies at Virginia Wesleyan College, to show that food portions depicted in paintings of the Last Supper get bigger as time goes by. The Brothers Wansink compared the size of the bread and the main dish to the average size of the diners’ heads in 52 Last Supper paintings spanning 1,000 years.
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But Jesus Is Still Skinny
A front-page story in USA Today highlights the “growing popular acceptance of marijuana,” as reflected in polls, ballot initiatives, and legislation.
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USA Today Notes ‘Growing Popular Acceptance’ of Pot
In a report issued last week, the International Narcotics Control Board (INCB), a U.N.
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Drug Warriors Fear Their Efforts Could Become Incoherent and Ineffective
The new annual report on biotech crops by the International Service for the Acquisition of Agri-Biotech Applications (ISAAA) notes: As a result of consistent and substantial, crop productivity, economic, environmental and welfare benefits, a record 14 million small and large farmers in 25 countries planted 134 million hectares (330 million acres) in 2009, an increase of 7 percent or 9 million hectares (22 million acres) over 2008…. Record hectarages were reported for all four major biotech crops
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Global Biotech Crop Acreage Increases Again
Norman Borlaug, the man who saved more human lives than anyone else in history, has died at age 95. Borlaug was the Father of the Green Revolution, the dramatic improvement in agricultural productivity that swept the globe in the 1960s.
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Norman Borlaug: The Man Who Saved More Human Lives Than Any Other Has Died
