So long as you did not speak lightly of God, or of the clergy, or of the King, or of the men in power, or of the artists patronised by the court, or of anything established; so long as you did not say anything good of Berenger, or of the opposition press, or of Voltaire, or of Rousseau, or of...
According to Sitemeter we broke the one million visit mark this week. (However, I don't think this metric includes all of you who read this site via a feed, e-mail, etc...
How am I going to tie these together, you ask? Just watch...
Treat this as the latest round in the Guantanamo discussion ...
They're not calling it that, but on April 24, 2009, Yale Law School is sponsoring a conference, Realistic Idealism in International Law, in honor of international law-giant W. Michael Reisman. Here's an excerpt from the conference announcement: Professor Reisman is the Myres S. McDougal Professor of International Law at Yale Law School, where he has been on the faculty since 1965....
As you probably know, the hugely distinguished Professor Christopher Greenwood of the LSE has joined the ICJ, thus occasioning the following job notice by the LSE (and many thanks to the great International Law Reports blog): The Department of Law, a world-leading centre for research and teaching in legal studies and interdisciplinary approaches to law, seeks to appoint a new Professor...
Classes have ended, exams just begun, and I'm feeling into the pedagogy of international law teaching and intellectually shallow, all at the same time ...
The European Journal of International Law has started a blog EJIL:Talk!, which promises to be an influential addition to the international legal blogosphere. In an introductory e-mail, JHH Weiler, the EJIL Editor in Chief wrote: The decision to experiment with a blog – and an experiment it is – was decidedly not a bandwagon effect – they all have it, so should...
In case anyone is interested, here is the text of my Fall 2008 final exam in International Business Transactions. (It's over at my much neglected home blog.) I don’t think this was my greatest exam drafting exercise - I’ve done better in past years. Actually, to be perfectly frank, I think it is not very good at all; I liked...
I don't imagine there is any reader of OJ who is not aware of the suffering and devastation caused by malaria. So this is welcome news. A vaccine against the parasitic disease malaria cut illnesses by more than half in field trials and could be safely given with other childhood inoculations, two studies have reported. The vaccine, which will begin a...
International Anti-Corruption Day is sanctioned by the UN as a day to increase awareness of corruption and its effects upon governance and public life. I realize that today's events in Chicago raise the possibilities of some heavy-handed irony - but actually, I'm pleased in a quite un-ironic way. If one has to have the phenomenon of this day for this,...
Over the weekend, Stuart Taylor joined the cast of conservative legal commentators (see also Jack Goldsmith, Ben Wittes, Jack Goldsmith and Ben Wittes) offering advice to the incoming Obama Administration on how to right the legal ship of security and state. Taylor’s reasonable jumping-off point: the actual security threats against the United States. President-elect Obama's announcement of his (mostly) stellar national...
