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Books

05 Aug

[Megumi Ochi is associate professor at the Graduate School of International Relations, Ritsumeikan University, Kyoto. The Premises of International Criminal Procedure: Identifying the Principles in International Collaboration (Springer, 2024) is the English translation of her second monograph.] I am honoured to be invited to this book symposium on this outstanding monograph written by my friend, Gaiane, on a topic that has...

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05 Aug

[Gaiane Nuridzhanian is an associate professor at The Arctic University of Norway (UiT)] The legal principle of ne bis in idem, also known as double jeopardy, proclaims that no person shall be tried twice for the same matter. This principle exists in most of the domestic legal systems and is a fundamental human right. While the importance of this principle is...

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10 Jul

[Marina Aksenova is an Associate Professor of International and Comparative Criminal Law at IE University] In this concluding post, I would like to offer a few observations on the themes raised by the participants of the symposium. Above all, I would like to express my sincere gratitude to the contributors for taking time to reflect on my book and offer their...

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10 Jul

[Jed Odermatt is a Reader at The City Law School, City St George's, University of London] Academic debates often begin with the assertion that international law is in a period of unique crisis. In the face of complex, wicked problems, from climate change to massive human rights abuses, international lawyers question whether international law’s toolkit remains fit for purpose. The responses...

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09 Jul

[Sofia Stolk is an Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Law and Public International Law, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam] When I had the privilege of collaborating with Marina on an exhibition and performance around art and international justice in The Hague in 2019, I witnessed how she theorizes, practices, and preaches art as an act of love. Her book is the culmination...

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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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