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29 Mar

Opinio Juris On-Line Symposium: Challenges to Public International Law

Several months back, Opinio Juris put out a call for papers for our inaugural on-line symposium to junior scholars. The theme was described as follows: As long as people have been writing about public international law, commentators have suggested that it is a system in crisis or somehow under stress. After a moment of optimism at the end of the Cold...

Peggy McGuinness | 0 Comments

11 Jan

Opinio Juris Welcomes State Department Legal Adviser John Bellinger

Opinio Juris is very pleased to announce that John Bellinger will be guest blogging with us for the week of January 15. As our readers well know, Bellinger is the State Department Legal Adviser, the top lawyer at the Department of State. In that capacity he is the principal adviser on all domestic and international law matters to the Department...

Roger Alford | 0 Comments

24 Aug

Opinio Juris Hosts Preview of American Political Science Association Roundtable

Starting Monday of next week, Opinio Juris is pleased to be hosting an online preview of a roundtable at the annual meeting of the American Political Science Association. Entitled "The Allocation of Normative Power to and among International Tribunals," the roundtable will explore legal and political issues arising out of the rise of international tribunals and the increasing legalization...

Julian Ku | 0 Comments

29 Jun

Hamdan – Big but not that big

A couple of quick thoughts on Hamdan, which is obviously an important decision (although perhaps not quite as important as on first glance). 1) Over at Scotusblog Marty Lederman asserts that the Court’s finding on common article 3 spills over to dispatch with interrogation practices in other detainee contexts. That may be true at some level, but on my read...

Peter Spiro | 1 Comment