Does any other court have jurisdiction relative to assassinated Iraqi academics?
Yes. Insofar as all forces that are factually occupying powers are legally imputable for any violations of human rights instruments to which they are State Parties in territories over which they have effective control, members of the Multi-National Force in Iraq (MNF-I) who are State Parties to the European Convention on Human Rights, Article 2 of which protects the right to life, can be held accountable before the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) for violations such as extrajudicial executions and supporting the existence and operation of death squads. As defined by Sir Robert Jennings and Sir Arthur Watts, jurisdiction concerns essentially the extent of each states right to regulate conduct or the consequences of events. (Oppenheims International Law, vol. 1, 456, 9th ed. 1992). Given that the UN Security Council continues to affirm that the MNF-I are occupying powers, and given the prima facie control the MNF-I reserves for itself over security matters in Iraq, occupying powers
