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19 Jun CfP: OJ Symposium on Virtual Learning and Critical Pedagogy
curriculum of international law courses. Even amongst practitioners of these approaches, Eurocentric international law continues to command the spotlight. Without implying that we are all critical now, there is broad based recognition of the importance of teaching international law from perspectives that originate beyond Europe if we are to explore solutions to the ills that grip contemporary worlds. Yet, if teaching international law critically poses a challenge in the lecture theatre, its presence in virtual teaching environments is even more fraught. Teaching is a process of intellectual exploration. It demands...19 Mar Introduction to the Leiden Journal of International Law/Opinio Juris Symposium
[Dov Jacobs is an Assistant Professor of International Law at Leiden University] This year marks the 25th anniversary of the creation of the Leiden Journal of International Law. This quarter of a century has seen the development from a student-created, student-run and most certainly student-read publication, to an internationally renowned professional journal in International Law and Legal Theory. As pointed out by LJIL’s Editor-in-Chief, Larissa van den Herik, in her editorial to the most recent issue of the journal, this year also marks the continuing foray of the Journal into...30 Jun Chicago Journal of International Law Symposium on Great Power Politics
Ordinarily I wouldn’t post the table of contents for a symposium in an international law review, but let me herewith make an exception: 10 Chicago Journal of International Law 1 (Summer 2009) Symposium: GREAT POWER POLITICS The Language of Law and the Practice of Politics: Great Powers and the Rhetoric of Self-Determination in the Cases of Kosovo and South Ossetia Christopher J. Borgen 10 Chi J Intl L 1 (2009) Great Power Security Robert J. Delahunty and John Yoo 10 Chi J Intl L 35 (2009) United Nations Collective Security...
30 Sep Introduction to the Symposium on Advisory Opinion AO-32/25 on the Climate Emergency and Human Rights: Climate Orders – The Inter-American Court Speaks
can expect the opinion to function as a toolkit that can be invoked in litigation before different forums. Lawyers and experts will use it to push administrations and companies either to advance or to avoid narrowing the rights it interprets. These movements show that while the Court provides the legal framework, the future of the climate struggle will be written by those who organize, resist, and insist that the law is complied with and enforced. The Symposium and Beyond Academia is the forum where the reach of the Advisory Opinion...12 May First Annual Opinio Juris Symposium: Challenges to Public International Law
On behalf of all of us at Opinio Juris, I am pleased to annouce that the first annual Opinio Juris on-line symposium, “Challenges to Public International Law,” will be held this fall. The details below will be posted on our sidebar for future reference. Opinio Juris Online Symposium 2006: Challenges to Public International Law Theme Statement As long as people have been writing about public international law, commentators have suggested that it is a system in crisis or somehow under stress. After a moment of optimism at the end of...
19 Oct Joint Symposium with Armed Groups and International Law on Compliance in Armed Conflict
symposium, half of the contributions will be found here at Opinio Juris, and the other half at Armed Groups and International Law. Keep an eye on both websites to follow along. We look forward to the discussion! Here’s a list of running posts and links: Ezequiel Heffes and Ioana Cismas, Symposium on Compliance in Armed Conflict: New Avenues to Generate Respect for Humanitarian Norms Emiliano Buis: Beyond Law, Beyond Reason: The Role of Emotions in Generating Compliance with International Humanitarian Law Katharine Fortin: A Participation Revolution–Time for More Bottom-Up Approaches...
19 Oct Symposium on Compliance in Armed Conflict: New Avenues to Generate Respect for Humanitarian Norms
[Ezequiel Heffes is a Thematic Legal Adviser at Geneva Call. He is a PhD Candidate at the Grotius Centre for International Legal Studies, University of Leiden. Ezequiel holds an LL.M. from the Geneva Academy and a Law Degree from the University of Buenos Aires School of Law and Ioana Cismas is a Reader at York Law School and the Centre for Applied Human Rights at the University of York. She leads the ESRC-funded project Generating Respect for Humanitarian Norms: The Influence of Religious Leaders on Parties to Armed Conflict. This...19 Jan International Law in the Asian Century: Conclusion to Opinio Juris and EJIL:Talk! Mini-Symposium
[Simon Chesterman is Dean of the National University of Singapore Faculty of Law. He is also Editor of the Asian Journal of International Law and Secretary-General of the Asian Society of International Law. Educated in Melbourne, Beijing, Amsterdam, and Oxford, Simon’s teaching experience includes periods at Melbourne, Oxford, Columbia, Sciences Po, and New York University.] An academic learns most through errors and omissions. Far better to be criticized in text than footnoted in passing — both, of course, are preferable to being ignored. I am therefore enormously grateful that such...
16 Feb Symposium on International Investment Law & Contemporary Crises: What Empirical Trends Suggest about the Future of the Field
[ Arif Hyder Ali , FCIArb, is co-author of the Empirical Study on International Investment Law Protections in Global Banking and Finance. His career spans senior roles at major international firms, the United Nations Compensation Commission, and WIPO before founding the boutique dispute resolution firm, AHALI, in 2025. Christine Carpenter is an international lawyer, and currently a Gates Scholar and PhD Candidate in International Relations & Politics at the University of Cambridge.] Introduction One year ago this month, the British Institute of International and Comparative Law (BIICL) published a comprehensive...