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11 Aug Doing Justice to History Symposium: Towards Asking Better Questions within the Field of International Criminal Justice
[ Barrie Sander ( @Barrie_Sander ) is Assistant Professor of International Justice at Leiden University – Faculty of Governance and Global Affairs] Reflecting on the narrative nature of law, James Boyd White famously observed how ‘[t]he text does not conclude the difficulties of the real world, but begins a process, a process of its own interpretation. This is the process by which the law is connected to the rest of life. Whatever it may purport to say, what a judgment shall come to mean is thus a matter for the...20 Aug Online Symposium: Eric Posner and Adrian Vermeule’s “Terror in the Balance”
Opinio Juris is very pleased to host for the next few days an online symposium on Eric Posner and Adrian Vermeule’s new book, Terror in the Balance recently published by Oxford University Press. The format for this symposium will be familiar to those who followed the symposium we held three weeks ago on Michael Ramsey’s book, The Constitution’s Text in Foreign Affairs. We will begin with a few posts introducing the broad outlines of the book. We will then have comments from experts who will address various aspects of the...
23 Aug International Investment Law Symposium: Is Foreign Direct Investment a Blessing or a Grift?
...to encourage the sampling of solutions from disparate public law regimes. Neo-functionalists use law for purposive, goal-oriented interventions. Favoured by international organisations, proposals often include reform packages that advance policy-based exceptions to investment. They even recommend that treaties include clauses to compel investors to comply with domestic laws and standards of corporate social responsibility. There is no objective solution to these normative complications and we observe the implementation of both types of reform proposals. The Total Tribunal employed comparative public law to concretise “legitimate expectations”, which they achieved by recourse...
16 Sep Organizing Rebellion Symposium: Four Points to Conceptualize Armed Groups under International Law
an armed conflict? Do armed groups have human rights obligations? If yes, which ones? And can armed groups instigate crimes against humanity or genocide? A comprehensive analysis of these questions is found in my book ‘Organizing Rebellion: Non-State Armed Groups under International Humanitarian Law, Human Rights Law, and International Criminal Law’, recently published with Oxford University Press. As a way of introducing this symposium, I will set out the four key takeaways from the book. International law does not provide a ‘one-size-fits-all’ analysis or framework for armed groups International law...
24 Jul Introducing a Symposium on Ljubljana – The Hague Convention on Mutual Legal Assistance: Critical Reflections
the treaty. This joint Asia Justice Coalition – Opinio Juris symposium is to introduce you to some key aspects of the negotiations and to provide you with a flavour of the fortnight of intense discussions in Ljubljana, that have resulted in the ‘Ljubljana – The Hague Convention’. A list of contributions is listed below, with links: Priya Pillai, Introducing a Symposium on Ljubljana – The Hague Convention on Mutual Legal Assistance: Critical Reflections Vaios Koutroulis, A New Tool in the Fight Against Impunity for Core International Crimes Raquel Saavedra and...
10 Jul Conclusion to the Symposium on Art, Aesthetics and International Justice: The New Geometries of International Justice
[Marina Aksenova is an Associate Professor of International and Comparative Criminal Law at IE University] In this concluding post, I would like to offer a few observations on the themes raised by the participants of the symposium. Above all, I would like to express my sincere gratitude to the contributors for taking time to reflect on my book and offer their brilliant and innovative insights as well as to Kevin Heller and Opinio Juris team for generously hosting the symposium. The points I raise are not exhaustive but rather tentative...
16 May Symposium on Systemic Racism and Sexism in Legal Academia: The Promise of Victory
the individuals alone. Rather, each intervention represents a generalisable experience, windows into broader structural challenges that legal academia and legal academics must confront. Staying true to OJ’s mandate, all begin from the vantage point of international law. Chronicles of an Oppression Foretold Our first intervention studies the records of the two leading publishers of monographs on international law: OUP and CUP. We lead with Talita de Souza Dias’ essay, as hers was the spark for this symposium. Last year, she submitted to OJ a provocative piece about race and gender statistics...
07 Dec COVID-19 and Africa Symposium: The Impact of COVID-19 on Human Rights in Africa
of lockdown regulations that have succeeded in Namibia, Lesotho and Malawi. Analyzing the Namibia Employers Federation judgment, Vimbai Mutandwa argues that the Namibian High Court’s insistence on strictly and narrowly interpreting the executive’s powers to derogate from rights during states of emergency are a vindication of the rule of law and the principle of legality. However, she notes that the judgment does not engage with international law standards adequately and fails to “engage with the substance of the issue at hand: the rights of workers and the impact of COVID-19...
28 Oct Fourth Annual Symposium on Pop Culture and International Law: Introduction
[Alonso Gurmendi is a Fellow in Human Rights and Politics at the London School of Economics & Political Science. He is also a contributing editor at Opinio Juris.] [Sarah Zarmsky is a Lecturer at Queen’s University Belfast School of Law. She is also Deputy Managing Editor of Opinio Juris.] It’s the last week of October and that means that the Pop Culture and International Law Symposium is BACK! We are extremely pleased to continue this time-honoured tradition of bringing together international law and movies, comic books, music, poetry, tv shows,...13 May New York University Journal of International Law and Politics, Vol. 46:1 Online Symposium
This post is part of the NYU Journal of International Law and Politics Vol. 46, No. 1 symposium. Other posts in this series can be found in the related posts below. The NYU Journal of International Law and Politics is proud to be partnering with Opinio Juris once again for an online symposium. This symposium is a discussion of Professor Jedidiah J. Kroncke’s article Property Rights, Labor Rights and Democratization: Lessons From China and Experimental Authoritarians, which was published in the NYU Journal of International Law and Politics, Volume 46,...