Search: Symposium on the Functional Approach to the Law of Occupation
16 Sep Navigating the Human Rights Trajectory of the EU Migration and Asylum Pact in Search and Rescue Operations (Part One)
[Patricia Vella de Fremeaux is Professor and Head of the International Law Department of the Faculty of Laws, University of Malta. Dr Felicity G. Attard is a lecturer in the Department of International Law at the University of Malta.] The problem of maritime migration has been at the forefront of the European Union (EU)’s legislative and policy making landscape for decades. The Common European Asylum System (CEAS) was established in 1999 with the objective of improving cooperation on asylum matters and has developed in stages periodically since then. Following unprecedented...20 Mar LJIL Symposium: Response of Lori F. Damrosch to Comments by John Dugard
[Lori F. Damrosch is Henry L. Moses Professor of Law and International Organization and Hamilton Fish Professor of International Law and Diplomacy at Columbia Law School] My article, ‘The Impact of the Nicaragua Case on the Court and Its Role: Harmful, Helpful, or In Between?’ originated as a contribution to a symposium convened on the 25th anniversary of the delivery of the merits judgment in the case. I took as my starting point one of the statements issued by the US government while the case was pending, which had predicted...
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...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...
07 Feb Key Takeaways from the Symposium by GQUAL on CEDAW’s GR40: Charting the Path to Women’s Equal Representation
[María Noel Leoni is Deputy Executive Director of the Center for Justice and International Law (CEJIL) and Director and Founding Member of GQUAL’s Secretariat Alejandra Vicente is Head of Law at REDRESS and Founding Member of GQUAL’s Secretariat] This symposium has brought together experts from key international fields to foster reflections on the transformative potential of CEDAW’s General Recommendation 40, which calls for the equal and inclusive representation of women in decision-making systems. The relevance of this topic is undeniable, as most contributors agree that securing women’s equal participation in decision-making,...