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02 Sep

and lawmaking precipitated by globalisation have forced legal academics to rethink the substance of what we teach. But how do we as educators account for the changes occasioned by similar forces to the way people learn? What does this learning revolution mean for the manner in which law schools practise education and facilitate the development of learners?  Law School: Where Progressive Pedagogy is Laid to Rest For many law professors and students, the preceding will sound fantastical, maybe even heretical. Law is not just an authoritarian instrument, but the authoritarian...
02.09.21 | |

06 Oct

the Mission of Sierra Leone to the United Nations, Ambassador Shekou M. Touray; and Professor Joseph E. Schwartzberg of the University of Minnesota. The panel’s moderator will be Professor Jose Alvarez of Columbia University Law School. On Friday and Saturday, the conference’s venue shifts to Fordham University School of Law, 140 West 62nd Street in New York City. The conference schedule includes thirty-three panels, traversing a wide spectrum of contemporary international law, including international criminal law, human rights law, international environmental law, international economic law, commercial law, and trade law....
06.10.09 | |

22 Feb

the innovations as violations of classical principles of international law. While the Third World wanted to use its sovereignty to revisit the contours of international law, Europe argued otherwise. In the words of Tony Blair, “ours are not European values, they are values of the human spirit” (a phrase he uttered as bombs rained over Baghdad). They predicated admission into the club on a blanket acceptance of existing rules. European International Law was the one law to rule them all. Asian, Chinese, Hindu, Indigenous, Islamic, and Japanese conceptions of international...
22.02.23 | |

13 Mar

Mapping the Field” from 21–23 June 2016, Exeter, United Kingdom. Proposals addressing the following topics are particularly welcome: the concept, meaning and scope of the international law of military operations;the place of the international law of military operations within the system of public international law as a potential lex specialis regime; the relevance and impact of particular branches of public international law—such as the law of the sea, air law, the law of international responsibility, international human rights law, the law of State jurisdiction and immunity—on the conduct of overseas...
13.03.16 | |

03 Apr

[Jan H. Dalhuisen is Professor at King’s College in London, the Miranda Chair of Transnational Financial Law at the Catholic University in Lisbon, and is Visiting Professor at UC Berkeley] Professor Dalhuisen is guest-blogging with us this week on the transnationalization of private law. Links to his other posts can be found under “Related Posts” below. In my last post, I said that the modern transnational lex mercatoria is dynamic, does not depend on statutory or treaty law, is not statist and allows for immanent or informal law formation through...
03.04.12 | |

29 Apr

law exculpation of the use of force will be discussed below. Finally, every individual, regardless of whether they are members of the armed forces, may use necessary and proportional force in personal defence against an unlawful (imminent) attack, subject to a number of criteria and restrictions normally set forth in national statutes and case law. Such personal self-defence is normally based on, or regulated by, national criminal law rather than international law, notwithstanding its clear relationship with international human rights law. The basis of self-defence under Netherlands criminal law and...
29.04.19 | |

03 Mar

briefly referenced Article 51 in a television interview, this appears to have been a passing remark that was not repeated elsewhere. In a Senate hearing on January 28, Secretary of State Marco Rubio again did not seek to justify the operation in international law terms and insisted on the “law enforcement” framing, which has no plausible basis in international law. This is in line with the administration’s broader rhetoric suggesting that it is unconstrained by international law. In the absence of any international law justification put forward by the Trump...
03.03.26 | |

09 Apr

investment law poses for domestic public law values by suggesting that international investment law and investment treaty arbitration should be conceptualized as public law disciplines. He argues that investment treaties should be interpreted, investor-state disputes resolved, and system-internal reform proposed by recourse to public law thinking. Anthea Roberts (Visiting Professor at Harvard Law School and Lecturer in Law, Department of Law, London School of Economics and Political Science) and Jürgen Kurtz (Associate Professor, Melbourne Law School) will respond. On Wednesday, Gregory Shaffer (University of Minnesota School of Law) and Joel...
09.04.12 | |

08 Dec

To have your event or announcement featured in next week’s post, please send a link and a brief description (1-2 paragraphs) to ojeventsandannouncements@gmail.com. Calls for Papers ASIL International Criminal Law Interest Group Works-in-Progress Conference: The ASIL International Criminal Law Interest Group will be holding its annual Works-in-Progress Conference in person on May 30, 2025, at Boston University School of Law. Submissions at various stages of development on any topic related to international criminal law broadly construed (including transnational criminal law) are welcome. We also welcome indications of interest from those...
08.12.24 | |

17 Jan

of the laws of war, domestic criminal law – namely war crimes law – is the place to go for accountability. Indeed, that’s what the “grave breach” provisions of the Geneva Conventions and similar requirements in the Convention against Torture require (rather than merely permit). Criminal law, far from disappearing in armed conflict, merely takes a second seat only where provisions of applicable IHL would cause a different result, for example, in application of the privilege of belligerency. Otherwise, criminal law remains in force. But this is about IHRL, not...
17.01.12 | |

11 Sep

the Rome Statute and under the traditional canons of treaty interpretation lex posterior derogat legi priori? I am wary of these wide-ranging interpretations of SC powers precisely because this turns it into a legislature-cum-executive with boundless powers and makes a mockery of international law tout court. Forget treaty law, forget customary law, forget the 'traditional' rules and principles of international law developed over the centuries... in short, we are free to ignore what African states do and say because the P5, which is conveniently above the law, can do whatever...
11.09.15 | |

23 Oct

role of lawyers in the sense of sophisticated finance people who start in law but gradually take on interdisciplinary expertise; that describes a lot of the players in this world, including lots of law professors. I mean the role of lawyer and law in the questions of governance, structures of governance, the constitutional arrangements of the the EU, the eurozone, the law of the central banks, and down from the supranational to the national. The economists and most of the political types I speak with do not believe that law...
23.10.11 | |