23
Sep
Oona Hathaway and Scott Shapiro’s New Book “The Internationalists”
I have a review up at the Washington Post. A great read. ...
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20
Sep
If President Trump Ends the Iran Deal, Can He Trigger the Security Council Snapback?
[Jean Galbraith is an Assistant Professor of Law at the University of Pennsylvania Law School] President Trump has reportedly made a decision about whether or not to end the Iran deal – although he won’t yet say what he’s decided. The Iran deal, more formally known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), is a political commitment rather than...
14
Sep
The Drafters Knew Best: Corporate Liability and the Alien Tort Statute
[Heather Cohen is a Legal & Policy Associate with the International Corporate Accountability Roundtable (ICAR), which harnesses the collective power of progressive organizations to push governments to create and enforce rules over corporations that promote human rights and reduce inequality.] Can corporations be held accountable in the United States for violations of international law? This question is back before the Supreme...
13
Sep
UK-Saudi Arabia Arms Trade before the High Court: Questions following the Judgment
[Riccardo Labianco is a PhD candidate at SOAS, University of London. His research focuses on state-to-state military assistance in times of conflict.] On 10th July 2017, the High Court of Justice (HCJ) delivered its decision regarding the choice of the Secretary of State for International Trade not to halt the transfers of arms between the UK and Saudi Arabia (SA). The...
06
Sep
Response from the EIC of the Journal of the History of International Law
[The following is a response from Anne Peters, the Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of the History of International Law] Dear readers, The JHIL received this letter and had agreed towards the authors in writing to publish it in the JHIL as soon as possible. Publication in JHIL does not imply any agreement or endorsement by the editors or by the academic advisory board...
06
Sep
Letter to the Editors of the Journal of the History of International Law
[This letter was sent to the editors of the Journal of the History of International Law on 29 August 2017. I am a signatory, not the letter's author.] Dear Editors, We are writing to express our grave concern about the publication of an article entitled ‘The Forgotten Genocide in Colonial America: Reexamining the 1622 Jamestown Massacre within the Framework of the UN...
31
Aug
Symposium on Occupation Law: The Writing the on the Wall 2.0: A Rejoinder
[Aeyal Gross is Professor of Law at the Tel-Aviv University Law School and Visiting Reader in Law at SOAS, University of London. In Fall 2017, he will be a Fernand Braudel Senior Fellow at the European University Institute. This post is the final post of the symposium on Professor Aeyal Gross’s book The Writing on the Wall: Rethinking the International Law of...
31
Aug
Symposium on Occupation Law: Control and the Law of Occupation
[This post is part of an ongoing symposium on Professor Aeyal Gross’s book The Writing on the Wall: Rethinking the International Law of Occupation (CUP, 2017).] One of the interesting observations Aeyal makes in his important new book The Writing on the Wall, is that new forms of control are radically challenging the law of occupation. Traditionally, occupation has been understood as a...
30
Aug
Symposium on Occupation Law: The Necessary Non-Normativity and Temporal Indeterminacy of Occupation Law
[Eugene Kontorovich is a Professor at Northwestern University Pritzker School of Law. This post is part of an ongoing symposium on Professor Aeyal Gross’s book The Writing on the Wall: Rethinking the International Law of Occupation (CUP, 2017).] Prof. Gross’s excellent book The Writing on the Wall: Rethinking the International Law of Occupation presents a normative synthesis of international humanitarian and international human rights...
30
Aug
Symposium on Occupation Law: Fitting a Square Peg into a Round Hole
[Diana Buttu is a lawyer and activist who is currently a law fellow at the University of Windsor Law School. This post is part of an ongoing symposium on Professor Aeyal Gross’s book The Writing on the Wall: Rethinking the International Law of Occupation (CUP, 2017).] This June, Israel marked 50 years of military occupation of the West Bank, Jerusalem and the Gaza Strip....
30
Aug
Of Fire and Fury: The Threat of Force and the Korean Missile Crisis
[Mohamed Helal is an Assistant Professor of Law, Moritz College of Law & Affiliated Faculty, Mershon Center for International Security Studies – The Ohio State University.] Wars of Words and Tweets The recent escalation of tensions on the Korean Peninsula provides an opportunity to reflect on the prohibition on the threat of the use of force. In less than a month,...
29
Aug
Symposium on Occupation Law: Rethinking the Regulation of Occupation in International Law: A Review of Gross’ ‘The Writing on the Wall’
[Valentina Azarova, Post-Doctoral Fellow, Center for Global Public Law, Koç University Law School, Istanbul; legal adviser, Global Legal Action Network (GLAN).This post is part of an ongoing symposium on Professor Aeyal Gross’s book The Writing on the Wall: Rethinking the International Law of Occupation (CUP, 2017).] The Writing on the Wall is a valuable response to growing frustration with the inadequacies of...