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29 Oct International Law and Popular Culture Symposium: The Sokovia Accords and Popular Culture’s Effect on Perceptions of International Law
international law or its lawyers. The Profession and International Law in General While the choice of the treaty is interesting and representative – the contents of the treaty are less representative but equally illuminating. It shows that the general understanding among non-lawyers of treaties is that they are like legislations – but at the international level. It also blurs one of the key distinctions between domestic and international law – while domestic law applies to individuals and entities within their territories, the traditional subjects of international law have been countries...28 Oct Richard Fallon on Law Professor Amicus Briefs
process). A very preliminary attempt at mapping this out is my article with Ruti Teitel, "Cross-Judging" at http://law.nyu.edu/ecm_dlv4/groups/public/@nyu_law_website__journals__journal_of_international_law_and_politics/documents/documents/ecm_pro_064130.pdf. One implication is that domestic judges, and advocates, need to school themselves in international law, one of the reasons that I and other colleagues argued at Michigan for making a course with significant international law content obligatory for all law students. But this is a longer discussion-I only wanted to point out that I do not regard international law as a kind of "exception", but that it is part of the law...17 May Symposium: The Rule of Law: Thick, But Not Too Thick?
[John Tasioulas is Yeoh Professor of Politics, Philosophy and Law at the Dickson Poon School of Law, King’s College London and Visiting Professor of Law, University of Chicago Law School. This is the third post in the Defining the Rule of Law Symposium, based on this article (free access for six months). The first is here and the second, here.] One can, without linguistic impropriety, use the phrase “the rule of law” to denote a number of significant though distinct ideas. Most expansively of all, it can be used to...
22 May The ILC Work on the General Principles of Law and its Implications for the Coherence of the International Legal System
[Dr. Pouria Askary is an Associate Professor of International Law at Allameh Tabataba’i University (ATU).] This post is based on a presentation delivered in a webinar organized by AALCO on 6 April 2023. Since the very beginning, the work of the International Law Commission (ILC) on the topic of general principles of law has surprised many States as well as commentators by introducing a second category of general principles of law which are, as reflected in the latest version of the text of the draft conclusions provisionally adopted by the...
04 Mar “Private” Breaches of International Law: Lessons from Domestic Courts for International Investment Law
that corporations not enjoy a “blanket exclusion” from liability for violations of “obligatory, definable and universal norms of international law”. To argue otherwise, in her opinion, is a “misconception” of modern international law. Lessons for International Investment Law The majority’s decision is revolutionary in explicitly identifying obligations for private actors in customary international law. The traditional characterisation of international law as creating rights for both states and individuals but obligations only for states, therefore, can no longer stand. Crucially, the majority in Nevsun make no distinction between positive and negative...
22 Dec Symposium on Classism and the International Legal Profession: The Tragicomedy of Critics in the Classist Discourse of International Law
of international law and earning? Even if there was, why was it problematic? In what follows, I explore this tragicomedy of critics in the classist international law discourse. Initially, it is demonstrated that since international law evolved from the classist discipline of law, its connection with classism was inevitable. It had a special place for the privileged, while it filtered those who criticised its classist structure. This created a complex tragicomedy in which the critical scholars of international law (CSIL) assimilated with the same classist structures they were committed to...28 Aug New and Lateral International Law Professor Hires
of Chicago, 1994.(comparative law, international law, conflicts of law). Entry-Level Hires: Boston College: Vlad Perju. J.D. equivalent, University of Bucharest, LL.M. Harvard. (comparative constitutionalism, EU law, jurisprudence). Columbia: Matthew Waxman. J.D., Yale, 1999. (international terrorism, international relations, laws of war) Fordham University: Andrew Kent. J.D., Yale, 1999. (national security law and constitutional law, public international law, including the laws of war, U.S. foreign relations law, and U.S. legal and diplomatic history). Georgia: Harlan Cohen, JD, NYU, 2003. MA, History, Yale, 2000 (human rights, foreign relations law, international criminal law). Georgia...04 May More from O’Connell on bin Laden Killing as Peacetime Use of Force
Mary Ellen O’Connell has written a more detailed analysis of the international law involved in the bin Laden killing responding to some of the comments on her Opinio Juris post. Here’s a taste: The use of lethal force is governed by two types of international law: the law of peace and the law of armed conflict. In peace, international law supports national legal systems when it comes to the resort to force. National systems restrict the use of force to law enforcement authorities — the police, or in special circumstances,...
07 Oct Rethinking International Law After Gaza: A Symposium and a Call to Action
law. Just like the conference, this symposium is not just an academic exercise—it is part of a global movement to rethink, reframe, and ultimately reshape international law to serve those it continues to fail. I have the honour of drafting this introduction, a task I approach with the urgency of the moment. As we will see in the coming days, solidarity may involve agitating at universities, revisiting aspects of the Genocide Convention, or petitioning Third World states to align their rhetorical support with stronger participation in boycott campaigns. For example,...