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20 Feb Georgetown Symposium: Corporate Responsibility and the Alien Tort Statute
Just a quick note to flag an upcoming symposium at Georgetown Law on Corporate Responsibility under the Alien Tort Statute. It’s scheduled for all day March 27, 2012. Here’s a quick description of the event: Alien Tort Statute (ATS) litigation has emerged as a focal point in the field of corporate responsibility over the past decade, as foreign plaintiffs alleging violations of international law argue their cases in federal court. For corporations doing business abroad, liability under this statute is controversial and has the potential for substantial effects on human...27 May Symposium on the Law of the Sea and the Law of Responsibility
This week we are delighted to bring you a symposium exploring the intersection between the law of responsibility and the law of the sea. The motivation for this symposium is twofold: First, although there is long interaction between the law of the sea and the law of responsibility, the law of the sea has become an area where the intersection is of increasing importance. The posts this week will highlight the ways in which the law of responsibility is being invoked in current controversies involving marine species and resources like...
03 Feb Introduction to the Symposium by GQUAL on CEDAW’s GR40: Transforming Decision-Making – The Power of CEDAW’s GR40 in Advancing 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] International decision-making systems are fundamental to international cooperation, shaping political consensus, and establishing legal standards and accountability mechanisms on critical issues such as human and women’s rights, climate change, peace and security, trade, and economic development. Women’s equal participation in these decisions is necessary to ensure the right to equality and to...05 Sep Emerging Voices Symposium 2016 Comes to a Close
stalemate in which they currently find themselves. Wolfgang Alschner weighed in on a novel approach to dealing with the complexities of international law in his post on computational analysis of international law, specifically focusing on text-as-data tools for investigating international investment agreements. Our next post featured an analysis by Andrea Bowdren of the trial of Ahmed Al Faqi Al Mahdi before the International Criminal Court, which represented a series of firsts for international law and justice. as Al Mahdi is the first individual from Mali brought before the ICC, the...
04 Oct Distant Justice Symposium: A Reply by Phil Clark
prosecutions, including truth commissions and community-based rituals). As I argue in the conclusion to the book: The foundational principle in this respect should be deference to local practices, regardless of their flaws, because they have several inherent advantages over international approaches, namely understanding of local context and challenges, sustained operation within the states in question and greater presence and visibility among local populations, including those most affected by violence. This view of complementarity approaches the question of the most appropriate responses to conflict from the standpoint of imperfection and the...07 Feb Harvard International Law Journal, Vol. 52(1): Online Symposium
(Hitotsubashi University, Japan). Finally, on Friday, we will conclude with Universal Exceptionalism in International Law by Anu Bradford (U. Chicago) & Eric A. Posner (U. Chicago). This article argues that all major powers, not just the United States, are similarly “exceptionalist,” in the sense that they take distinctive approaches to international law that reflect their values and interests. Robert Ahdieh (Emory) will provide his thoughts on the article. We hope you join us all week for our launch of Volume 52, Issue 1 and our first ever Opinio Juris Symposium....
05 Jun Symposium on Reproductive Violence in International Law: A New Era of Accountability for Reproductive Violence at the ICC?
[Valeria Babără works as Legal and Advocacy Officer with the Women’s Initiatives for Gender Justice , where she monitors and researches developments on the prosecution and adjudication of gender-based crimes, and contributes to legal publications including ‘ The Hague Principles on Sexual Violence ‘ and ‘ Judicial Approaches to SGBC at the ICC ‘.] This post forms part of the Opinio Juris Symposium on Reproductive Violence in International Law, in which diverse authors reflect on how the International Criminal Court and other jurisdictions have responded to violations of reproductive health and...
04 Oct Symposium on Gender Representation: The GQUAL Campaign – Witnessing Change on Gender Balance in International Bodies
[Maria Noel Leoni is member of the GQUAL Secretariat, Senior Adviser at the Center for Justice and International Law and Regional Manager for Latin America at the Business & Human Rights Resource Centre. Alejandra Vicente is member of the GQUAL Secretariat and Head of Law at REDRESS. Agatha Ciancaglini is Advocacy and Research Assistant at GQUAL and Lawyer at the Gender Policies Department of the Public Prosecutor’s Office in Argentina.] Six years ago, a group of human rights lawyers working in Latin America decided to do something to fix the...27 Jun YJIL Symposium: Hall and Weiss Respond to Comments on Avoiding Adaptation Apartheid: Climate Change Adaptation and Human Rights Law
rights – and socio-economic rights in particular – to date. Finally, all of this leads to the bold question posed by Ruhl: are we saying anything new about human rights or international law? We agree with Ruhl that applying human rights to climate change adaptation does not change the substance of international law; however, it does change procedural responses, the coherence of and synergies in international climate change action (as McInerney-Lankford suggests), and notions of the utility of international law. In addition, what is “new” about climate change adaptation is...05 Sep Protection of Civilians Symposium: An Overview of Legal and Practical Challenges of Protecting Civilians in Peacekeeping
[Ralph Mamiya is team leader for the Protection of Civilians Team in the UN Department of Peacekeeping Operations but writes here in a purely personal capacity, and the views expressed do not represent official positions of his Department or the United Nations.] The protection of civilians is both a well-established topic in international law and also a relatively new and controversial phenomenon in practice. It incorporates aspects of international humanitarian law, international human rights law, international refugee law, as well as the law of jus in bello and the use...