[Rob Howse is the Lloyd C. Nelson Professor of International Law at NYU and is guest blogging this week here at Opinio Juris. His first post can be found here.] After a long period of relative neglect of such studies, there's a boom in scholarship in the history of international law, as Alexandra Kemmerer noted at Voelkerrechtsblog early this fall. Kemmerer suggests, rightly, that disciplinary boundaries...
Mark Kersten, creator of Justice in Conflict, long one of the most important blogs in international criminal justice, successfully defended his thesis yesterday at the LSE. Heartfelt congratulations, my friend! And, of course, now that Mark has the word "Dr." in front of his name, we can finally take him seriously....
It's my pleasure to announce that Rob Howse will be guest blogging on Opinio Juris this week. Rob is the Lloyd C. Nelson Professor of International Law at NYU, and a specialist in international trade and investment law. He is also the author of a new book in political philosophy entitled Leo Strauss Man of Peace published by Cambridge. A great interview...
As I read – and re-read – the OTP’s decision regarding the attack on the Mavi Marmara, one thought kept going through my mind: what was the OTP thinking? Why would it produce a 61-page document explaining why, despite finding reason to believe the IDF had committed war crimes during the attack, it was not going to open an investigation?...
Nearly nine years ago, I blogged about the ICRC's efforts to prevent the use -- or, more accurately, the misuse -- of the Red Cross symbol in videogames. I imagine it will have less of a problem with the new game This War of Mine, which challenges the player to survive as long as possible as a civilian in a...
Your weekly selection of international law and international relations headlines from around the world: Africa The Nigerian army has driven out Boko Haram insurgents from Chibok, the home of over 200 schoolgirls who were abducted by militants of the Islamist group in April, an army spokesman said. Somalia's al Shabaab militants said they fired mortar bombs at the presidential palace in Mogadishu on...
Events ASIL-IEcLIG Co-Chairs, Elizabeth Trujillo (Suffolk University Law School) and Jason Yackee (University of Wisconsin Law School), are happy to announce the upcoming ASIL--International Economic Law Interest Group's Biennial Research conference, on "Reassessing International Economic Law and Development: New Challenges for Law and Policy," taking place on November 13-15, 2014. It is hosted by ASIL Academic Partner University of Denver Sturm College of Law, in collaboration with...