This week on Opinio Juris, Kevin had a chuckle at Libya's newest excuse why it missed the deadline for filing submissions to the ICC. He also called your attention to the work of Breaking the Silence, an Israeli NGO collecting testimonials from IDF on the treatment of Palestinians in the Occupied Territories. Deborah discussed ongoing confusion between al Qaeda and ISIS, and the...
This fortnight on Opinio Juris, we discussed the US Supreme Court's decision in Bond v United States. Peter argued how the Court ducked the question about the federal treaty power and provided a Bond cheat sheet. A guest post by Jean Galbraith focused on the notable silences in the Bond opinions, and David Golove and Marty Lederman described the outcome as stepping back...
Calls for Papers Following a successful conference organised by the Qatar University, College of Law and the Qatari Branch of the ILA on the Syrian Crisis and International Law they now plan for a special issue of the International Review of Law on the same theme. To this end, they are looking for contributions discussing: public international law, including collective security and...
This week on Opinio Juris, Duncan shared his initial reactions on the DOJ charges against Chinese military officials over cyberespionage targeting US industries and Chimène Keitner examined the indictments from the perspective of foreign official immunity. Julian looked into the aftermath of China's decision to move an oil rig to a disputed area of the South China Sea. He argued that Taiwanese investors might be better off invoking the...
Call for Papers The Dennis J. Block Center for the Study of International Business Law will sponsor a Scholars’ Roundtable on October 10, 2014 at Brooklyn Law School. Scholars writing in a diverse range of fields related to international business law are invited to submit proposals to present works in progress for an intense day of discussion with other scholars in the field. ...
This week on Opinio Juris, the NYU Journal of International Law and Politics brought you a symposium on Professor Jedidiah J. Kroncke’s article Property Rights, Labor Rights and Democratization: Lessons From China and Experimental Authoritarians. In their comments, Cynthia Estlund looked at parallels with the US, Eva Pils pointed to a discrepancy in transnational civil society's concern for labour and evictee rights in China, and John...
A busy week on Opinio Juris with a book symposium on Just Post Bellum-Mapping the Normative Foundations. Kristen introduced the great definitional debate on the meaning of "just post bellum" (JPB). Jens Iversion contrasted JPB with transitional justice and Ruti Teitel discussed JPB as transitional justice. Jens Ohlin argued in his post that ideas about omission liability are stumbling blocks towards the acceptance of JPB. Where...
Events The Inter-American Affairs Committee of the International Law Section, the International Dispute Resolution Committee of the International Law Section and the Inter-American Bar Association are sponsoring a DC Bar Lunchtime Conference on "Property Rights Protection in the Americas: the Non-Arbitration Options", this Tuesday May 6, from 12-2pm at WilmerHale in Washington DC. More information and registration is here. Call for Papers As...
This week on Opinio Juris, Duncan posted an abstract to a book chapter arguing that IHL should adopt a duty to hack. He also argued that reports of the death of treaties are greatly exaggerated. Peter marked May Day with a post on global consciousness of the non-elites; Kevin argued that the PTC II is not treating defence attorneys fairly; Julian wrote about Florida's narrow...
This week on Opinio Juris, we teamed up with EJIL:Talk! to bring you a transatlantic symposium on Karen Alter's book The New Terrain of International Law. You can find Karen's introduction to her book here, followed by comments by Tonya Putnam, Roger Alford and Jacob Katz Cogan. Karen's reply is here. Other guests this week were Paula Gaeta who explained why she is not convinced by...
To all doctoral students and early career academics or professionals who would like to contribute to our blog in July or August, remember that applications for our second Emerging Voices symposium are still open until May 1. We'd love to hear from you! More information is here....
This week we are working with EJIL:Talk! to bring you a symposium on Karen Alter's (Northwestern) book The New Terrain of International Law: Courts, Politics, Rights (Princeton University Press). Here is the abstract: In 1989, when the Cold War ended, there were six permanent international courts. Today there are more than two dozen that have collectively issued over thirty-seven thousand binding legal rulings. The...
