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20 Jan International Law as Behavior Symposium: Studying International Law as Behavior
[Elena Baylis is Associate Professor of Law at the University of Pittsburgh] In my role as commentator for the in-person symposium that preceded this online symposium, I took on the task of identifying common themes among the symposium papers. This essay focuses on a few of the ideas drawn from the papers as a whole. Treating international law as behavior engenders several kinds of complexity centered on a set of classic epistemological questions: what do we know and how do we know it? By using theoretical and methodological approaches drawn...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...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...08 Oct Quotable Quotes from the Fordham Law Review Symposium
Along with Julian, I had the good fortune to participate in a symposium last week at Fordham Law School on “International Law and The Constitution: Terms of Engagement.” Details about the symposium are available here. The Fordham Law Review will devote a symposium issue to the conference in the near future. Here are a few quotes from the symposium: The strongest response that can be made to those who challenge violations of the laws of war by the Bush Administration is that these same voices were silent when the laws...
17 May A Pandemic of Hunger Symposium: Implementing UN Security Council Resolution 2417
[ Global Rights Compliance (GRC) is a niche organisation that specialises in legal services associated with violations of international law. For more on GRC’s work on conflict and hunger, see here. For more on GRC’s accountability work, click here.] The looming famines in up to three dozen countries have two things in common, “they are primarily driven by conflict, and they are entirely preventable.” World Food Programme Introduction 24 May marks the third anniversary of the UN Security Council unanimously adopting Resolution 2417 (UNSC 2417) recognising the link between conflict...
05 Dec Remembering Antônio Augusto Cançado Trindade and his Legacy: A Joint Symposium
post as an example of “collegial opposition”. Over at Afronomicslaw, also on Tuesday, Paula Wojcikiewicz Almeida, Professor of International Law and EU Law at FGV Rio, talks about Judge Cançado Trindade’s legacy, illustrating the multiple facets of his career as an academic and judge, both at the Inter-American Court of Human Rights and the International Court of Justice. On Wednesday, at Afronomicslaw, Catalina Fernández, Lecturer at the University of Chile and Judge Cançado Trindade’s former law clerk talks about his final separate opinion, on the Armed Activities (DRC v. Uganda)...14 Apr Virginia Journal of International Law, Vol. 48-3: Opinio Juris Online Symposium
The Virginia Journal of International Law is pleased to continue its partnership with Opinio Juris in this third online symposium. This week’s symposium will feature three articles recently published in Vol. 48-3 of VJIL, available here . Our discussion on Tuesday will focus on the mysterious history of Alexander Nahum Sack, the Russian-born legal scholar whose once obscure theory of “odious debts” has found new life among contemporary proponents of debt forgiveness. In their article, A Convenient Untruth: Fact and Fantasy in the Doctrine of Odious Debts, Sarah Ludington (Duke)...25 Feb An EJIL Symposium on Treaty Reservations
work, and, even better, that EJIL Talk! is making drafts of these papers publicly available while the editorial process is on-going. Here’s how Marko describes it: I am happy to announce that the EJIL will be publishing a symposium on the International Law Commission’s Guide to Practice on Reservations to Treaties. The symposium was edited by Linos-Alexandre Sicilianos and myself, and features contributions from Alain Pellet, Michael Wood, Daniel Mueller, and Ineta Ziemele and Lasma Liede. It will most likely be coming out in issue 3 of this year’s volume...14 Jan Boundaries of the Battlefield Symposium Insight
[Peter Margulies is a Professor of Law at the Roger Williams University School of Law focusing on the balance of liberty, equality and security in counter-terrorism, and author of Law’s Detour: Justice Displaced in the Bush Administration (NYU Press 2010).] The days of Donald Rumsfeld chiding “Old Europe” are gone, but targeted killing has renewed debate on counter-terrorism strategies between the US and Europe. Boundaries of the Battlefield, a symposium sponsored last week by The Hague’s Asser Institute and coordinated by Asser researcher and Opinio Juris contributor Jessica Dorsey, offered...
13 Feb Symposium on Rewriting Histories of the Use of Force: Introduction
horrors of two global conflicts, international lawyers developed the narrative of indifference to maintain their faith in their discipline. The story helped international lawyers cope with international law’s lack of effectiveness: international law had not failed to prevent war because there were no such legal rules. Fast forward to today and one may wonder: what has changed? One hardly needs to be reminded of current events and past occurrences to realize that developments in international law have not prevented recourse to the use of force, and that many breaches of...