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24 May Islamic Law and Progressive Politics
this debate about Islamic Law has anything to do with law as opposed to political discourse, unless you think Islamic political discourse produces inherently normative outcomes in contrast to American discourse. I think you just have a list of goals, albeit admirable, that you want to see produced via Islamic Law or U.S. Foreign Policy and who cares the means!!! Adil Haque Hi Jared. Interesting comment. Could you clarify whether in the U.S. context the law you refer to is U.S. law or international law? It would affect my response....12 Feb Events and Announcements: 12 February 2023
to bilateral and multilateral treaties in the field of private international law. The aim of the conference is two-fold: to encourage specialists of private international law to reassess the importance of the issues that surround the coming into existence of private international law treaties and their operation under public international law; and to discuss whether, and to what extent, the law of treaties applies in the area of private international law in a way that reflects the peculiar features of private international law. For information and registration, see here. Panel...24 Jun The CMCR Invents the “War Crime” of Material Support for Terrorism
limitations, jurisdiction of military commissions to try persons for offenses against the law of war. Quirin, 317 U.S. at 26-31 (p. 16). In this case, Congress and the President seek to protect our Nation’s interests in ensuring compliance with the law of war and adherence to the law of nations, including customary international law, through adjudication and punishment of particular crimes against the law of war (p. 20). We, like the military commission judge, consider international and domestic sources of law for pre-existing examples of criminalization under the law of...
03 Nov Third Annual Symposium on Pop Culture and International Law: When Toasters Commit Genocide – Law, Public Institutions, and Society Under Threat of Extinction
of this emphasises that BSG portrays a group of humans who (at least initially) operate in an environment with a limited system of ‘law’. Such analysis suggests that a legal system, or at least one based on the ‘rule of law’ is one of the things which is stripped away when humanity ‘is reduced to essentials’. We contend that one of the things BSG is, in fact, exploring is how society and law respond to a continuing threat of swift and immediate societal level extinction. How do Public Law Institutions...
14 Feb Symposium on Rewriting Histories of the Use of Force: Of Rules and Exceptions in Jus ad Bellum
[Mohamed S. Helal is Associate Professor of Law at the Moritz College of Law, Ohio State University; and member of the Permanent Court of Arbitration as well as of the African Union Commission on International Law.] Agatha Verdebout’s Rewriting Histories of the Use of Force: The Narrative of Indifference is an exhaustively researched and lucidly written volume that makes important contributions to both the history and historiography of international law. It problematizes the dominant storyline about the evolution of jus ad bellum. It challenges the claim that, before the 20th...
24 Oct In a World of Warners, Be like Elle
and protect the community. Krieger and Sheldon refer to these as intrinsic motivations and argue that law school teaches its students to focus on extrinsic motivations – attaining clerkships and coveted top tier law firm graduate roles. Law school as a result shifts students’ motivation for studying and practicing law from one of personal rewards to more tangible rewards such as prestige, power, and financial gain. This leads to a substantial decline in student wellbeing as competition and individualism is encouraged. This environment contributes to negative experiences that law students...12 Dec MCA’s Paquete Habana Declaration?
customary international law is part of our law and the MCA simply codifies that law. Is this a “Paquete Habana declaration” that embraces the notion that customary international law is part of our law? If so, in what form did all of these crimes pre-exist in our law? Not all of them were codified. So were they federal common law? Is that what the MCA is saying in Section 950p? That the MCA is simply declarative of these existing customary international law crimes that were pre-existing in our federal system?...16 Jan Is Killing Iranian Nuclear Scientists Terrorism?
our guys do it, it's not terrorism. When "they" do it, it's terrorism. Also a demonstration of the value of a legal education. Law is not about logic or best outcomes. The question is rather, what is the law. The United States is party to a law under which this is clearly terrorism. Whether the United States observes its own laws- which was once beyond question- is now very much in question. Edward Brynes When Israel's IAF bombed Iraq's reactor at Osirak, there were Iraqi military casualties and one civilian...
28 Oct International Law and Popular Culture Symposium: ‘The Mauritanian’, Guantanamo, and the Politics of International Law
Films can, therefore, be part of a broader corpus of images depicting issues relevant to international law. Secondly, we should also pay attention to the silences and ambiguities of films. These also tell stories about international law, invisibly shaping audience understandings of the law’s limitations, relevance, and reach. Synopsis and Reception The Mauritanian tells the true story of Slahi (Tahar Rahim), who was taken to Guantanamo Bay in 2002 and released without charge in 2016. The film is structured around the work of two lawyers: Slahi’s defence lawyer Nancy Hollander...