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16 Jan Asia’s Ambivalence About International Law & Institutions: Introduction 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.] A decade after moving from New York to Singapore, I began work on this article in the hope of understanding what seemed to me a paradox. Well into the much-vaunted “Asian century”, the states of...08 Jul Second Harvard International Law Journal/Opinio Juris Symposium
A few months back, Opinio Juris was pleased to host an inaugural joint symposium with the Harvard International Law Journal. Next week, we’re very pleased to be able to regularize this partnership with a second symposium (I’m particularly pleased with this development for reasons that should become apparent below). The symposium will run from Tuesday, July 12, to Friday, July 15, and features the following line-up: On Tuesday, John H. Knox will respond to Jacob Katz Cogan‘s article, The Regulatory Turn in International Law. On Wednesday, Eric Jensen and Jonathan...
26 Apr Vedanta v Lungowe Symposium Wrap Up
[Carlos Lopez is a Senior Legal Adviser at the International Commission of Jurists.] Claire Bright has nicely concluded the series of blogs in this online symposium on the legal and policy implications of the UK Supreme Court judgment on jurisdiction in Vedanta v Lungowe. It is time now to close the symposium and gratefully acknowledge the participants (Robert McCorquodale, Doug Cassel, Anil Yilmaz, Gabrielle Holly, Lucas Roorda and Claire Bright) and our hosts, the International Commission of Jurists and opinio juris for providing the opportunity and the space for a...19 Feb Introducing the Symposium on Harold Hongju Koh’s Washburn Lecture and Article: “The Trump Administration and International Law”
[Craig Martin is a Professor of Law at Washburn University School of Law, and is the Co-Director of the International and Comparative Law Center of Washburn Law.] Over the next few days Opinio Juris will be conducting a virtual symposium to discuss Professor Harold Hongju Koh’s article The Trump Administration and International Law. The article was published in a special Symposium Issue of the Washburn Law Journal, which also includes articles by David Sloss, Peggy McGuiness, and Clare Frances Moran, responding to or picking up on the themes of Harold’s...08 Nov The Oxford Guide to Treaties: An Opinio Juris Symposium
Kenneth Anderson Congratulations, Duncan! And I'd just like to note that Duncan will be delivering the lunch address at today's my law school's (WCL) International Law Review - National Security Law Brief conference on cyberwarfare. Check it out in person today, or it should be posted as video at some point at the school's website....
04 Apr COVID-19 Symposium: COVID-19 and International Criminal Law
...of Opinio Juris’ very pertinent symposium about the role of international law in responding to the crisis. One sub-question that may not come immediately to our minds is the relevance, if any, of international criminal law (ICL) and international criminal justice vis-à-vis pandemics like the COVID-19 one. Are notions of individual accountability and of criminal conduct relevant in this particular context? Is there a role for international criminal justice in the prevention of, and response to public health emergencies of this kind? Many will advance a negative answer to these...20 Sep IL/IR Symposium: What Can IR Learn from IL?
[Jeffrey L. Dunoff is the Laura H. Carnell Professor of Law at Temple University Beasley School of Law and Mark A. Pollack is professor of Political Science and Jean Monnet Chair ad personam at Temple University] Many thanks to Opinio Juris – and to all of the Symposium participants – for a stimulating and informative discussion of the virtues and vices of international law and international relations (IL/IR) scholarship. The Symposium highlights some of the ways that IL/IR research has enriched our understanding of the making, interpretation, and enforcement of...
25 Sep Symposium on the ICJ Climate Change Advisory Opinion: A Landmark Moment for International Law
[ María José Alarcón Santillán is an international lawyer and S.J.D. candidate at GW Law, serves as Counsel in the ICJ Advisory Opinion on Climate Change, is a CISDL Fellow, and Regional Co-leader at the Sabin Center for Climate Change Law. She has advised states on cases before the ICJ, ICSID, ITLOS, and the PCA. Erick Guapizaca is an S.J.D. candidate at the University of Michigan Law School and a lecturer at the Universidad Internacional del Ecuador.] On 23 July 2025, the International Court of Justice (ICJ) delivered its long-awaited...
11 Sep Contemporary International Criminal Law After Critique Symposium: After Critique – Rescuing the Anti-Impunity Norm Before Moving Forward
[Rocío Lorca is Associate Professor and Director of Research at the University of Chile Law School] The papers in the recent ‘After Critique’ symposium move between critique and possibility regarding the role of international criminal law as an instrument of justice. Natalie Hodgson, for example, gives us good reasons to value international criminal law. Not as a grandiose mechanism that will deliver on the promise of holding power to account but as a tool that could help in this endeavor by creating awareness of the crimes of the powerful and...