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Books

09 Jul

[Emiliano J. Buis is a Professor of Public International Law (Law School) and Ancient Greek (Department of Classics) at the University of Buenos Aires (UBA) in Argentina and Permanent Researcher at the CONICET (National Research Council for Science and Technology)] In her inspiring monograph Art, Aesthetics and International Justice, Marina Aksenova presents a profound reimagining of the foundations of international legal authority. She...

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08 Jul

[Katerina Borrelli is a Researcher and Incoming PhD Candidate in Law at the European University Institute, Florence] Over the past two decades we have witnessed an ever-growing attention to law as an aesthetic phenomenon — an emerging trend in socio-legal studies and law-and-humanities scholarship. (e.g. Gearey; Machado). Marina Aksenova’s Art, Aesthetics and International Justice is firmly situated within this emerging current,...

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08 Jul

[SONG Tianying is a Research Fellow at the Centre for International Law Research and Policy] Confucius said: “One establishes oneself through rites and perfects oneself through music.” (The Analects · Book VIII: Tai Bo) International justice is established in terms of rites; Marina Aksenova’s Art, Aesthetics and International Justice seeks to improve it with aesthetic insights. It is a highly innovative...

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07 Jul

[Elizabeth S. Malobais a strategy and systems advisor She serves on the boards of ZanaAfrica and AFEW Kenya, is an Associate Fellow at the Făgăraș Research Institute, and co-founded the Nahari community of African facilitators] Introduction – Seeing, Believing, and Complexity “Seeing is believing.” The phrase implies that legitimacy is rooted in what can be perceived—what feels real, witnessed, and emotionally credible....

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07 Jul

[Marina Aksenova is an Associate Professor of International and Comparative Criminal Law at IE University] The advance of artificial intelligence (AI) represents a seismic shift in how we regulate and structure societies. The question of what keeps us human in the age of algorithmic and synthetic reasoning is then far from trivial. Spontaneous creativity may be one of the answers. This symposium...

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15 Nov

[Dr Erin Pobjie is Assistant Professor at Essex Law School and a Senior Research Affiliate at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law. She serves as co-Rapporteur of the International Law Association’s Committee on the Use of Force.] The author writes here in her personal capacity. Amidst the shadows cast by current global events, there is solace in...

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14 Nov

[Alejandro Chehtman is Dean and Professor of Law at Universidad Torcuato Di Tella.] Prohibited Force (CUP, 2024) addresses a neglected issue in International Law, namely, the scope of the prohibition to use force. That this is a neglected issue might seem unexpected, given that this rule has been appropriately termed a “cardinal principle”, and one of the “cornerstones” of the international...

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14 Nov

[James A. Green is Professor of Public International Law at the University of the West of England, Bristol, UK ,co-rapporteur of the International Law Association’s Use of Force Committee and a former editor-in-chief of the Journal on the Use of Force and International Law. His most recent book is Collective Self-Defence in International Law (CUP, 2024).] Pål Wrange once wrote that...

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13 Nov

[Andrew Clapham is Professor of International Law at the Geneva Graduate Institute and the author of "War"] During Dr Pobjie’s book launch at the Geneva Academy we discussed some of the contemporary challenges facing those working to ensure respect for the international law on prohibited force. It is obvious that states are not willing to take the necessary steps to deal...

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13 Nov

[Tomohiro Mikanagi is an Ambassador/Deputy-Permanent Representative of the Japanese Permanent Mission to the UN and Ambassador-at-Large for Cooperation on International Law. He is a Former Legal Advisor of the Japanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs and former visiting fellow of the Lauterpacht Centre for International Law, Cambridge.] The following comments are made in the author’s personal capacity According to Erin Pobjie, “a ’use of...

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12 Nov

[Adil Ahmad Haque is a Professor of Law and Judge Jon O. Newman Scholar at Rutgers Law School. His first book, Law and Morality at War, was recently published by Oxford University Press.] Erin Pobjie’s Prohibited Force is an extraordinary book. Its combination of theoretical sophistication and empirical rigor is both striking and rare. While some readers may be tempted to skip to the later chapters, which set...

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11 Nov

[Claus Kreß is a Professor of Criminal Law and Public International Law, the Chair for German and International Criminal Law, and Director of the Institute of International Peace and Security Law at the University of Cologne. He formerly Served in the German Federal Ministry of Justice.] In para. 253 of its 19 July 2024 Advisory Opinion in Legal Consequences from the Policies...

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