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01 Sep Critical Pedagogy Symposium: Critical Pedagogical Approaches towards International Law Teaching in Iran–From Classroom to Virtual Space
led the Graduate School of Political Studies, where he taught international law and wrote the first international law textbook in Persian. Informed by Western textbooks, Pirnia’s engagement with international law was equally doctrinal and Eurocentric. The topics in his textbook included history, subjects, treaties, diplomatic and consular law, and the usual international signposts. This trend persisted broadly until the 1980s. Iranian international law scholars who either graduated from European universities or studied in Iranian academic institutions under European-educated scholars taught the courses and wrote the textbooks. They rarely challenged Eurocentric...
07 Feb Teaching Karl Marx about Third World Approaches to International Law
about jus gentium. We are indebted to the pioneers. In Imperialism, Sovereignty, and the Making of International Law, Antony Anghie collapsed the moral foundations that European international law boasted of. Rather than notions of universality and equality, a dynamic of difference and of dehumanisation guided the regime’s architects. In War, Commerce, and International Law, James Gathii centred the powerful Euro-American interests that manipulated war and international legality in the name of mammon. Echoing Susan Marks, Gathii evidenced that immiseration is good business and international law a powerful ally when seeking to appropriate the...
28 Oct International Law and Popular Culture Symposium: A Micronation on the Big Screen – Using Cinema in Class for Teaching International Law
[ C. Ignacio de Casas is an Adjunct Professor of Public International Law and the Executive Director of the Human Rights Program at the Faculty of Law of Universidad Austral.] I have a state, and I’m going with you as my lawyer. International law is your field. I’m offering you the adventure of a lifetime: to save an independent state. Will you come? With that line, the young and idealist engineer Giorgio Rosa tries to convince his ex-girlfriend Gabriella to help him save his creation, an artificial island built right...23 May Pledging American Exceptionalism: US Supreme Court Justice Gorsuch on International Law
law provisions in contracts. But that is typically a question of foreign law, not international law. Certainly, both are non-American law. Yet the two of them raise distinct questions, particularly given that the United States contributes to the formation of international law, is bound by international law, and has hooks in its Constitution for looking to international law. As for when Gorsuch says that treaties sometimes require you to look at international law … I feel like telling him that, actually, treaties are international law. I have been critical elsewhere...23 Jun Let’s Call Killing al-Awlaki What It Still Is — Murder
because international law entitles only the members of a state’s regular armed forces to participate in hostilities, the CIA had no authority under international law to use armed force against al-Awlaki. The CIA is not part of the US’s regular armed forces. There is, of course, an obvious response to that objection: namely, that the availability of the PAJ depends on domestic US law, not on international law, so it is irrelevant whether the CIA had the right under international law to used armed force against al-Awlaki. Because AQAP was...
07 Jul Customary International Law Symposium: Making Sense of Law as Practice (Or: Why Custom Doesn’t Crystallize)
[Jutta Brunnée is University Professor and Metcalf Chair in Environmental Law at the Faculty of Law of the University of Toronto.] With her provocative new article Making Sense of Customary Law, Monica Hakimi challenges doctrinalists as well as theorists of international law to engage in a sophisticated conversation about a classical problem: how do we know when customary international law (CIL) exists as “a general practice accepted as law”? Monica argues that “orthodox” accounts of custom are overly concerned with identifying stable primary rules (i.e. rules regulating behavior) and, to...