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26 Nov Whatever Happened to Law Firms Going Public?
...require large amounts of capital to operate and, as it happens, leverage as well. To that extent, going public gives them access to the large pools of capital that are basic to their proprietary trading businesses. A professional firm is different; it is selling its expertise, not leveraging the management of capital. In Business Associations, I used to discuss why public corporations came about, in the search for larger pools of capital for … capital investment. Whereas professional partnerships have relatively low capital requirements, and lawyers quite possibly (at least...14 Sep Events and Announcements: 13 September 2021
...competition is open to lawyers around the world. However, ONLY participants with a law degree are eligible to enter the competition. We look forward to receiving your submission! If you would like additional information or have any questions, we invite you to visit our website or contact us via email at humanrightsessay[at]wcl[dot]american[dot]edu. Follow us on Social Media search: acadhumanrights If you would like to post an announcement on Opinio Juris , please contact John Heieck at eventsandannouncements[at]gmail[dot]com with a one-paragraph description of your announcement along with hyperlinks to more information. Failure to...08 Dec Weekly News Wrap: Monday, December 8, 2014
...were killed by their captors, officials said. Asia China’s foreign ministry rebuked the U.S. Congress on Monday after legislators passed a bill allowing the sale of second-hand warships to Taiwan, the self-ruled island which Beijing claims as a renegade province. The United States will keep up to 1,000 more soldiers than previously planned in Afghanistan into next year, outgoing U.S. Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel said on Saturday, in a recognition of the still formidable challenge from Taliban insurgents. Europe Spanish rescue teams said they had called off their search for...
27 Apr AI and Machine Learning Symposium: Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning in Armed Conflict
...immediate concern (see above). AI and machine learning software – particularly for “automatic target recognition” – could become a basis for future autonomous weapon systems, amplifying core concerns about loss of human control and unpredictability. However, not all autonomous weapons incorporate AI. The second area is the application of AI and machine learning to cyber warfare: AI-enabled cyber capabilities could automatically search for vulnerabilities to exploit, or simultaneously defend against cyber attacks while launching counter-attacks, and could therefore increase the speed, number and types of attacks and their consequences. These...27 Apr Truth Commissions and Colonial Atrocities: Moving the Needle Further Towards State Responsibility?
...Reparations may include the payment of compensation, memorialization and further investigation. Previously, truth commissions that have issued recommendations for reparation include Morocco and Chile (the Rettig Commission, which included search for remains of the disappeared). Clearly, reparations are dependent on the political will and financial ability of the government, and they are a powerful step in providing a measure of redress for mass atrocities and historical injustices. The Mauritius truth commission placed responsibility on the colonial powers in addition to Mauritius, and recommended that the Mauritian government ask for reparations...09 Dec Guest Post: The Courts’ Misunderstanding of IHL is Deeper than You Think – A Response to Kevin Jon Heller
...that the United States District Court for the District of Columbia, as well as the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals misunderstood and misapplied international humanitarian law as it denied Al Warafi’s habeas petition. Heller, who seems both exasperated by the misapplication of the law but also sobered by the inevitability of this fact, posits that the Courts ignore clear language governing whether Al Warafi’s was required to carry or wear official identification demonstrating that he was protected as “medical personnel exclusively engaged in the search for, or the collection, or...
26 May Affective Justice Symposium: Law’s Emotional (Im)possibilities
[Nayanika Mookherjee is a Professor of Political Anthropology in Durham University and her research concerns an ethnographic exploration of public memories of violent pasts and aesthetic practices of reparative futures through research and publications (including a graphic novel and animation film) on gendered violence in conflicts, memorialisation and transnational adoption.] Kamari Clarke’s Affective Justice: The International Criminal Court and the Pan-Africanist Pushback is an ambitious, thought provoking, tour de force showing the historical and ethnographic trajectory of the idea of law as justice and how it is felt, experienced, and...01 Jan Exploring International Law with Opinio Juris in 2013: Highways, Back Roads, and Uncharted Territories…
There’s never a boring year in international law and 2013 turned out to be particularly eventful: Syria, major cases in front of national and international courts, a possible nuclear deal with Iran, and turmoil in Eastern Europe, Egypt, and South Sudan, to name but a few reasons. This post is not an attempt to log all that we have written about on Opinio Juris this year. There’s just too much. If any of these topics (or others) are of particular interest to you, you can use our search function to...05 Nov Suing to Block Oklahoma’s Constitutional Amendment
...a U.S. treaty obligation? Chief Justice Roberts and Justices Kennedy, Scalia, Ginsberg, Alito and Sotomayor all endorsed doing so last term. Or, what about looking to the law of treaties to discern what constitutes a U.S. treaty commitment or how to interpret it? If they don’t look to such international and foreign laws, on what grounds would Oklahoma judges interpret or apply a U.S. treaty? These questions, however, do not appear widespread among those troubled by the amendment. For now, the focus appears to be on its singling out Sharia...06 May Deeks on Self-Defense and Pakistani Sovereignty
...have been able to stage an effective mission against the compound, or that the United States at least should have constructed the mission as a joint operation, given that the two countries work closely together in other intelligence and military contexts. It also could point to the fact that it conducted searches for al Qaeda leaders in Abbottabad in 2003 and in subsequent years, and that it passed on information about the 2003 search to U.S. officials. On balance, however, Pakistan’s defense of its sovereignty in this case, while understandable...