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23 Mar Symposium on COVID-19 and International Law
to the pandemic, Opinio Juris will host a symposium on COVID-19 and international law, kicking off next week on Monday, 30 March 2020. Convened by Barrie Sander (Fellow at Fundação Getúlio Vargas) and Jason Rudall (Assistant Professor at Leiden University), the symposium will bring together approximately 20 scholars to reflect on different dimensions of the COVID-19 pandemic from the perspective of international law. We hope the symposium will provide a useful entry point for examining the relationship between COVID-19 and international law and, as always, invite our readers to join the debate....09 Oct LJIL Symposium Vol 25-3: Introduction
[ Dov Jacobs is the Senior Editor for Expert Blogging at the Leiden Journal of International Law and Assistant Professor of International Law at Leiden University] This post is part of the Leiden Journal of International Law Vol 25-3 symposium. Other posts in this series can be found in the related posts below. Over the next few days, we are happy to bring you a discussion of two articles published in Volume 25-3 of the Leiden Journal of International Law, the first one a timely self-reflection on the practices of...
27 Sep Symposium on the Current Crisis in Myanmar: Legal Implications – An Introduction
and the Asia Justice Coalition have partnered to bring to you this Symposium, “Current Crisis in Myanmar: Legal Implications”. Previously, in August 2020, both partners hosted the symposium, “The Impact and Implications of International Law: Myanmar and the Rohingya”, in which various aspects of the legal developments related to the Rohingya were canvassed. This year, the intention is to broaden the discussion, to include the current events in Myanmar, given their inescapable impact on questions of justice and accountability, not just for the Rohingya but also the rest of the...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...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...22 Oct Symposium on Religious Extremism and Terrorism
Tomorrow (Friday, October 23rd), the S.J. Quinney College of Law of the University of Utah will host a symposium entitled Freedom from Religion: Rights and National Security. You can watch the symposium online via a link on this page. Here’s the brief description: Based on Professor Amos N. Guiora’s new book, Freedom from Religion: Rights and National Security (Oxford University Press, 2009), this Symposium will explore the limits of tolerance of religious extremism in five countries and its impact on the current terrorism threat our world faces. By drawing on...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...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...11 Nov NYU Journal of International Law and Politics Online Symposium
and Politics. Today and tomorrow, we hear comments on Professor Lopez’s article from four distinguished scholars: Mark A. Drumbl is the Class of 1975 Alumni Professor of Law and Director of the Transnational Law Institute at Washington & Lee University. Naomi Roht-Arriaza is Distinguished Professor of Law, University of California, Hastings College of Law. Ruti Teitel is Ernst C. Stiefel Professor of Comparative Law at New York Law School. Johan D. van der Vyver is the I.T. Cohen Professor of International Law and Human Rights, Emory University School of Law....
30 Sep Symposium on Phil Clark’s ‘Distant Justice’
[Patryk I. Labuda is a Postdoctoral Scholar at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy. Thijs B. Bouwknegt is a Researcher at the NIOD Institute for War, Holocaust and Genocide Studies (part of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences, KNAW).] The International Criminal Court (ICC) is struggling. Fifteen years after it opened its first investigation, the Court has tried just a handful of cases. Only four individuals have been convicted of core international crimes, while four others have been acquitted. Along the way, the Court has faced a...