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03 Feb ICC and Palestine Symposium: ‘Sometimes They Come Back’: The Question of the ICC’s Territorial Jurisdiction in Palestine
[Triestino Mariniello is Senior Lecturer in Law and Coordinator of the Research Unit in ‘International Justice and Human Rights’ at Edge Hill University, UK. Chantal Meloni is Associate Professor at the University of Milan, Italy where she teaches International Criminal Law and Senior Legal Adviser to the European Center for Constitutional and Human Rights, Germany.] This Symposium on ‘The Question of the ICC’s Territorial Jurisdiction in Palestine’ follows the most recent developments that concluded the preliminary examination into the ‘Palestine situation’: On 20 December 2019, the ICC Prosecutor found that there...31 Mar St. John’s Center for International and Comparative Law Inaugural Symposium
Tomorrow, the Center for International and Comparative Law (CICL) of St. John’s University School of Law will have its inaugural symposium. Peggy and I are CICL’s Co-Directors, and we are looking forward to what we hope will be a great kick-off. The symposium, entitled Challenges to International Law, Challenges from International Law: New Realities and the Global Order, is co-sponsored by the American Society of International Law and the St. John’s Journal of International and Comparative Law (the Center’s new online journal). Presenters will include Michael Mattler, the Minority Chief...
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...
04 Mar Unilateral and Extraterritorial Sanctions Symposium: A Rejoinder – Part I
countermeasures, which consist in the adoption by a non-injured State in the sense of the international law of responsibility, of “lawful” measures of reaction to the violation of obligations owed to the international community as a whole (Articles 54 and 48 of the International Law Commission on the international responsibility of the State), with, in the specific case of international organizations such as the European Union, an aim to safeguard the interest of the international community as a whole (Articles 49(3) and 57 of the International Law Commission on the...
28 Jan International Law’s Invisible Frames Symposium: Concluding Remarks
[Andrea Bianchi is Professor of International Law at the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, Geneva; Moshe Hirsch is the Von Hofmannsthal Professor of Law at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and Co-director of the International Law Forum at the Hebrew University Law Faculty.] We are extremely grateful to the editors of Opinio Juris and Alexandra Hofer for hosting and organizing this book symposium. Thank you also to the contributors – Emiliano Buis, Adil Hasan Khan, Sofia Stolk and Alexandra Hofer – for their engagement with the arguments raised...
10 Jul Symposium on Symposium on Art, Aesthetics and International Justice: The Power of Perception – Aesthetic Theory and International Justice
[Jed Odermatt is a Reader at The City Law School, City St George’s, University of London] Academic debates often begin with the assertion that international law is in a period of unique crisis. In the face of complex, wicked problems, from climate change to massive human rights abuses, international lawyers question whether international law’s toolkit remains fit for purpose. The responses are also familiar. International agreements should be better designed; states need to comply with their existing legal obligations; failing institutions need to be reformed. Aksenova’s Art, Aesthetics and International...
08 Apr The Next ICC Prosecutor: A Joint Opinio Juris and Justice in Conflict Symposium
[ Kevin Jon Heller is Associate Professor of Public International Law at the University of Amsterdam and Professor of Law at the Australian National University; Mark Kersten is a Senior Consultant at the Wayamo Foundation and creator of the blog Justice in Conflict ; Patryk I. Labuda is a Postdoctoral Scholar at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy; and Priya Pillai is a lawyer and international law consultant.] Quite naturally, the world’s attention has been focused on the terrible suffering created by the COVID-19 pandemic. Life, however, goes on...
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...
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,...
06 Feb Symposium on Fairness, Equality, and Diversity in Open Source Investigations: An Introduction
can have implications for whose voices are heard (or unheard) during the OSINT process and through open source evidence. This symposium delves further into these issues and more, with a stellar line-up of pieces on a wide range of topics pertaining to fairness, equality, and diversity relating to open source investigations and digital open source evidence. Each day of the symposium will feature posts relating to a common theme. Today, we begin with a theme at the heart of the symposium—the lived experiences of marginalized voices working within the OSINT...