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28 Oct Contra CIA, Non-Self-Executing Treaties Are Still the Supreme Law of the Land
bin Laden). The most troubling sentence in Charlie Savage’s new New York Times piece on the legal theory underlying the United States’ 2011 incursion into Pakistan to kill or capture Osama bin Laden is this: “While the lawyers believed that Mr. Obama was bound to obey domestic law, they also believed he could decide to violate international law when authorizing a ‘covert’ action, officials said.” The Times piece very helpfully links directly to the basis of its statement that administration lawyers believed the President could disregard international law in covert...14 Aug How to Define Piracy Under U.S. Law and the “Law of Nations”
of what the law actually is." As to the relevance of UNCLOS, see also the Restatement of the Law, Third, Foreign Relations Law of the United States, on customary international law generally, and in partlicular, section 102: "International Agreements constitute the practice of states and as such contribute to the growth of customary law...Some multilateral agreements may become law for non-parties who do not actively dissent. That may be the effect where a multilateral agreement is designed for adherence by states generally, is widely accepted, and is not rejected by...
30 Apr Beyond Territoriality: Symposium on Jurisdictional “Hooks” for (Extraterritorial) Human Rights Obligations – Post Agostinho Learning Moments for Extraterritorial Jurisdiction in Human Rights Law, Using a Public International Law Perspective
[Charlotte E. Blattner is senior researcher and lecturer at the Institute for Public Law, University of Berne. She specializes in public international law and climate law, and is the author of Protecting Animals Within and Across Jurisdiction (OUP).] Introduction For some time now, the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) has been widely accused of its “erratic and unprincipled” case law on extraterritorial jurisdiction, to the point that this would threaten its role as a human rights guarantor. The issue recently came to a head with a new wave of...10 Jan Events and Announcements: 9 January 2022
– Online Workshop on Responding to Complex Relationships in International Law: The SLS International Law Section, in collaboration with the European Journal of Legal Studies, invites abstracts from PhD researchers in international law (public or private) for an online Workshop on Responding to Complex Relationships in International Law to be held on 13 May 2022. The theme intends to encourage new voices in international law to critically consider the complex relationships emerging in different areas of the international system and, where challenges arise, propose innovative methods for actors to respond....18 Apr LOAC Conference at Catholic University, DC, Friday April 23
If you are going to be in DC on Friday, April 23, there will be a terrific law of armed conflict program all day at Catholic University, Columbus Law School, including Harold Koh as lunchtime keynote speaker and a host of luminaries on the panels. Advance registration required. See program details below the fold. Controversy and Developments in the Law of Armed Conflict: Customary vs Treaty Law; Law of the Sea Manual; Manual on International Law Applicable to Air and Missile Warfare Friday, April 23, 2010 The Catholic University of...
16 Jun Contingency in International Law Symposium: Thinking like ‘Fools’– Recovering the Radical Potential of Contingency in International Law
a World of Divergent Possibilities There is just so much around us, which is structured in a manner to create dispossession, inflict injustice and perpetuate imperial violence that asking the question whether it could have been be different itself requires a willing suspension of reality. Recovering contingency in law, let alone in international law, is a difficult task, not least because law inherently demands a certain determinacy, predictability and finality, even if we know otherwise. Thus, Ingo Venzke and Kevin Jon Heller’s attempt at ‘recovering possibilities of the past’ so...04 May Events and Announcements:
scholars from the Global South and elsewhere who are interested in critical international law scholarship on development aid, with the ultimate goal of finding reformative solutions that will ensure self-reliance of the Global South. Interested scholars can contribute to the Symposium within the deadline of 20th May 2021. The details regarding contributing to the blog can be found here. Reconceptualizing International Law Session 5 – Reconceptualizing International Economic Law: This series features leading academics and practitioners who will engage in critical thinking across the core topics of public international law...04 Oct Events and Announcements: 4 October 2020 (Update)
of EU law represents a major element of the legal discourse concerning the affirmation and strengthening of the European integration process. It firstly influences the way in which that law interacts with the municipal law of the Member States. More and more, however, the relevance of the scope of EU law goes beyond the interplay with Member States’ legal orders, contributing thus to the global reach of EU law. In this respect, a crucial role is played by the extraterritorial application of EU law. Thanks to the growing web of...