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[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...

[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,...

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,...

[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...

To celebrate the launch of our new website and new members, Opinio Juris will be holding a symposium over the next two weeks on Harold Hongju Koh’s new book, The Trump Administration and International Law, which was just published by Oxford University Press. (You can get a 20% discount by clicking on the OUP advertisement to the right of this post.) Here is the publisher’s description: Will Donald trump international law? Since Trump’s Administration took office, this question has haunted almost every issue area of international law. One of our...

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...

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...

interested in contributing blog posts to the symposium are invited to send an abstract of not more than 150 words by 5 October 2021. Expressions of interest should be submitted to Dr Ntina Tzouvala (ntina.tzouvala@anu.edu.au) and/or Dr Barrie Sander (b.j.sander@luc.leidenuniv.nl). Decisions on abstracts will be delivered by 20 October 2021. The deadline for the full drafts is 30 November 2021. The symposium will be co-hosted by Opinio Juris and Afronomicslaw in the first quarter of 2022. Symposium Organisers Dr Srinivas Burra Ms Julia Emtseva Dr Barrie Sander Dr Ntina Tzouvala...

debate in this Opinio Juris symposium. The book was written as part of a four-year research project on jus post bellum. The concept is steadily gaining ground in emerging scholarship, and we hope the fantastic contributions to this symposium will push that scholarship even further. We are grateful to the contributors to the symposium, to those who post responses, and to the readers. The basic idea of jus post bellum emerged in classical writings (e.g., Alberico Gentili, Francisco Suarez, Immanuel Kant) and has its most traditional and systemic rooting in...

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...

was largely reversed by Congress a few months later while the long term effects of Sanchez-Llamas remain uncertain. For this reason, this symposium is a terrific opportunity to shine the light on this potentially important decision. This symposium is full of blogger-professors. In addition to yours truly, Opinio Juris co-blogger Peggy McGuinness and Opinio Juris guest-blogger Janet Levit have contributions in this symposium. Bloggers Melissa Waters and Paul Stephan also have essays. The symposium will not be the last word on Sanchez-Llamas, but it is certainly an important first word....

[Charles C. Jalloh is Professor of Law, Florida International University and Member, International Law Commission. He is Chair of the Panel of Experts on the Election of the Prosecutor. Sabine Nölke is the former Ambassador of Canada to the Kingdom of the Netherlands (currently Chargée d’affaires of Canada to Ireland) and Chair of the Committee on the Election of the Prosecutor. The views expressed by the authors are personal and not attributable to any entities with which they may be affiliated. This essay, the final in the joint Justice in...