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12 Jan Innovative but Precarious: The Challenge of Running Open-Source Investigations Labs at Public Universities
investigation as a field of research and a means of education, training students how to effectively conduct research online and verify the authenticity and reliability of the information they discover. For example, the University of Essex’s Digital Verification Unit partners with Amnesty International—and more than a half dozen other university programs worldwide—to engage students in human rights investigations using digital techniques. In Canada, the University of Toronto’s interdisciplinary Citizen Lab investigates cyber espionage, disinformation, and digital rights violations. In the United States, Boston University launched the Justice Media Co-Lab, an...17 Feb Dubinsky on The Death of Treaty Supremacy
...the increasingly broad and deep scope of international law. Others in this symposium have discussed the book’s value in terms of its historical analysis, constitutional interpretation, and its practical value to human rights litigators. As this on-line symposium draws to a close, it is important to note that the Death of Treaty Supremacy opens up new avenues for research. For example, David Stewart observes that “the story of our Constitution is largely one of judicial adaptation and reinterpretation in light of changed circumstances.” In response to the book’s “problem []...16 Apr From Hierarchy to Diagonality to Panarchy: A Comment on Hari Osofsky’s Is Climate Change “International”?
...to the exclusion of national and subnational responses. For the United States, once the discussion drifts down to those levels the federalism debate opens in full gear. A mountain of legal scholarship has risen from the collision between the pro-federal, pro-state, and pro-local climate change policy camps. Declining to join this Goldilocks search for the “just right” balance, Osofsky joins those, including myself, who see a need for an interconnected multi-scalar policy response that is equally as complex as the climate change problem itself. What sets her apart from work...19 Apr Kony 2012: The Social, the Media, and the Activism: Kony Meets World
[Beth Karlin is the Program Director of the Transformational Media Lab within the Center for Unconventional Security Affairs (CUSA) as well as a Research Associate at the California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology (Calit2) and a doctoral student in the School of Social Ecology at University of California, Irvine. Her research focuses on the potential and application of new media and technologies for civic engagement and social change.] Many new trends in technology and communication are changing the landscape of civic engagement and activism. Social justice campaigns are utilizing...12 Mar Cheng Book Roundtable: When Should International Law Do More than Work?
...as well as the special contingent circumstances that led to the frantic search for intelligence from detainees. According to Professor Cheng, the legal memos authorizing waterboarding were still overbroad and wrongful. But he does not go so far as to argue that all waterboarding is always illegal at all times. Carefully monitored waterboarding, following the techniques used for training of U.S. soldiers, and subject to aggressive third-party monitoring, could indeed be justified in contingent circumstances. Waterboarding that was videotaped, and specifically authorized under the oversight of monitors, could be justified...
26 Oct International Law and Popular Culture Symposium: Writing Science Fiction
...how we do our research.” It’s an iterative practice that is just as much prospective (“this is how I plan to do the work”) as it is retrospective (“this is how I ended up doing the work”). My focus on style and genre is an acknowledgement of how, again as Pahuja puts it, that writing is a mode of thinking not a transcription of thinking. This is different than the very interesting scholarship or events that takes science fiction seriously and reads it to interrogate the different ways we imagine...
06 Aug Complementarity, Catalysts, Compliance Symposium: Why Catalysis is the Wrong Metaphor
...in a particular place. Further, in a series of recent resolutions, the SJP has accredited the territories of indigenous and rural Black peoples as victims of Colombia’s 50-year civil war. It has drawn on indigenous concepts, or cosmovisiones, to transform these territories into rights-bearing legal subjects within the peace process. The SJP, in other words, is re-inventing some of the ways in which post-conflict institutions approach the search for legal responsibility and reparation. In so doing, it is working in conversation with a rich constitutional tradition that embraces environmental protection...24 Nov A Super-Practical Question re Administrative Detention and Human Rights Law
called “who owns” international law. Does determination of the system’s lawfulness depend upon US courts taking international law into interpretive account? Or does it shift “ownership” of the determination and interpretation to international bodies, such as the UN Human Rights Council, special rapporteurs, tribunals of one kind or another, or NGOs, that have a completely different view of human rights obligations and which (in the sense of public choice analysis of the well-organized minority view as against the diffuse majority) are prepared to be relentlessly on-message in pressing theirs as...19 Dec Will Thailand protect Hakeem Al-Araibi?
...Thailand’s Universal Periodic Review, his return “reportedly succeeded after the individual was sedated and beaten, allegedly by the police authorities of the country of origin who had come to Thailand in search of the individual.” His family reported to Amnesty International that he had been tortured after arriving back in Bahrain. The brutal treatment of Mr. Haroon was a clear violation of Thailand’s obligation of non-refoulement under international law, as would be the removal of Mr. Al-Araibi. In contrast to the Haroon case, news reports indicate that extradition proceedings will...