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01 Nov Fourth Annual Symposium on Pop Culture and International Law: Representation of Ethical and Moral Dilemmas of Drone Warfare on Screen – An Analysis of ‘Good Kill’ and ‘Eye in The Sky’
type of warfare and have the characters playing the same role as the audience – they are watching events unfold on screen. In this regard, they are more immersive as a viewing experience and present a new form of law, ethics and proportionality to viewers. These films do reinforce existing narratives in international law, however they place the viewer in the position of decision makers. The films complement each other well but adopt different approaches when presenting a similar ethical conundrum of the collateral cost of action. Introducing Good Kill...04 Dec Does Hillary Clinton Believe in International Law?
...properly described as skeptical of yielding "sovereignty to an unruly and unpredictable global community"? Do you disagree that there are those who are committed in the abstract to the idea of international law, but functionally ignorant of the doctrinal details and substantive law? Or do you think everyone who subscribes to progressive orthodoxy is ipso facto "well educated" and a serious scholar of international law? Do you? Do you disagree that "progressive" intlawyers can be guilty of self-aggrandizement when they equate their opinions with that of "the international community"? International...
17 Nov “Friendly Fire: On!” – Some Thoughts on the Jersey Incident
...force in the context of maritime law enforcement (MLE) and the possible application of the law of naval warfare (LONW) in similar incidents, with a specific focus on the Jersey Incident on 6 May. Thus, the current fisheries dispute between France and the UK is not included in this paper. The first part will present the conditions of the lawful use of armed force during MLE operations, with examples from the case law. Next, the second part will look for an answer to the question of whether LONW would be...21 Nov LJIL Symposium: In Defense of a (Relatively) “Empty” Conception of Self-Determination
[Brad R. Roth is a Professor of Law at Wayne State University in Detroit, Michigan, where he teaches international law, comparative public law, and political and legal theory] In “Beyond Empty, Conservative, and Ethereal: Pluralist Self-Determination and a Peripheral Political Imaginary,” Zoran Oklopcic gives an enlightening account of a set of related approaches to the international norm of self-determination of peoples. In this rendering, I have the honor of being cast as the representative of “Empty”: that is to say, my approach to international legal pluralism “empties” the self-determination norm...
05 Feb ICC and Palestine Symposium: General Assembly Resolution 67/19 and Palestine as a State before the ICC
[John Quigley is Professor Emeritus at the Moritz College of Law, The Ohio State University.] In her Request to the Pre-Trial Chamber for a ruling on territorial jurisdiction, the Prosecutor raises the issue of Palestine’s statehood as a matter to be determined by the Pre-Trial Chamber. She writes, persuasively, that Palestine is a state. The matter was conclusively determined already by the General Assembly in its Resolution 67/19 of 29 November 2012. Palestine had long had an observer mission at the United Nations. Entities that have observer missions can be...21 Jun It’s the Economy, Stupid (even in Iraq)
obvious than they are. Basically, the clauses found their way into the constitution because they were something each constituency could agree on. They all liked them, they all wanted to include them, and there was as a result very little discussion on most of them. Other than one concerning family law, that is, which really was an attempt to introduce notions of Islam into the law of the family, but the Islamists couldn’t do it directly, so they made it into a “right” of each person to choose their own...01 Sep Syria Insta-Symposium: André Nollkaemper–Intervention in Syria and International Law: Inside or Out?
part of an attempt to reconstruct the law on the use of force? There is no doubt that in the present situation, military strikes against Syria would be in violation of international law as it has been understood since 1945. In situations as we face now, in the absence of a Security Council mandate, international law allows no unilateral use of force. Building a coalition outside the UN does not help. Qualifying strikes as punishment does not help either. International law does not provide a right of states to respond...19 Jul Kevin’s Gripe of the Day
Academic books that have long quotes in foreign languages and don’t provide translations of them — even in the footnotes. I’m reading Eyal Benevisti’s superb The International Law of Occupation, and there is French everywhere. I can usually get the gist (thanks, Mrs. Armour, for being such a good Latin teacher!), but I’m sure I lose the nuance. That is very unfortunate, and it makes me far less likely to cite the book in my own. Accuracy matters, particularly when it comes to doctrine. So we all — the author,...
14 May How did the Israeli Supreme Court Legitimise Starvation as a Weapon of War? An Autopsy of a Ruling (Part 2)
[Neve Gordon is a professor at the School of Law, Queen Mary University of London, a Fellow of the British Academy of Social Sciences and the former Chair of the British Society of Middle Eastern Studies’ Committee on Academic Freedom. He is the author of Israel’s Occupation (University of California Press 2008) and co-author of The Human Right to Dominate (Oxford University Press, 2015), Human Shields: A History of People in the Line of Fire (University of California Press, 2020). Muna Haddad is a Palestinian human rights lawyer and a PhD candidate at the School of Law,...