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14 Nov Melbourne Journal of International Law, Vol. 13-1: Opinio Juris Online Symposium
this, Professor Foster’s contribution analyses recent Australian Government amendments to such legislative protections and addresses whether these amendments are consistent with the Refugee Convention. Mary Crock and Susan Kneebone will respond. We hope that you enjoy participating in the upcoming discussion. We once again thank Kevin Jon Heller and the team at Opinio Juris for the opportunity to host this symposium. For further information about the Journal, the editors may be contacted at law-mjil [at] unimelb.edu.au Martin Clark, Nuwan Dias and Eamonn Kelly 2012 Editors Sanishya Fernando 2012 Commentaries Editor...14 Apr Virginia Journal of International Law, Vol. 49-3: Online Symposium
The Virginia Journal of International Law is delighted to continue its partnership with Opinio Juris this week in this online symposium featuring three articles recently published by VJIL in Vol. 49:3, available here. On Wednesday, Professor Duncan B. Hollis of Temple University James E. Beasley School of Law and Joshua J. Newcomer, Clerk for the Honorable Carolyn Dineen King of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, will discuss their article “Political” Commitments and the Constitution. The authors offer a novel constitutional theory of political commitments –...
07 Jun Symposium on Accountability for Conflict-Related Sexual Violence
During the coming days, Opinio Juris, along with the UN Team of Experts on the Rule of Law and Sexual Violence in Conflict, will host a Symposium on accountability for conflict-related sexual violence (CRSV) crimes associated with slave trade, slavery and trafficking. The Symposium focuses on some of the key aspects developed in the fifth webinar of the Digital Dialogues on CRSV, including: a reflection on the latest innovations and lessons learned related to the criminal investigation of slave trade; efforts to support and strengthen accountability at the national level;...23 Jul Symposium on Mann, Humanity at Sea
issue of increasing global concern. Author: Dr Itamar Mann (Senior Lecturer, University of Haifa, Faculty of Law) Chair: Professor Panos Koutrakos (Professor of Eurpean Union Law, Jean Monnet Professor of European Law, City Law School, City University London) Discussants: Professor Guy S. Goodwin-Gill (Emeritus Fellow, All Souls College, Emeritus Professor of International Refugee Law, University of Oxford); Dr Hagar Kotef (Senior Lecturer of Political Theory and Comparative Politics, SOAS, University of London); Dr Ioannis Kalpouzos (Lecturer in Law, City Law School, City University London). The symposium is next Wednesday, the...
08 May Symposium on ‘Marketing Global Justice’ – Monopoly Capitalism, Kitsch, and Accountable Accountability
way to see complementarity, no, namely, ensuring monopoly of method (selective liberal criminal trials) and creating a cartel (and a protectionist market barrier) to suborn alternatives? After reading your book, well, it confirms (for me) my instinct why, in this neo-liberal frame, meaningful corporate responsibility at the level of international law is an impossibility (p. 208). The whole infrastructure is simply too corporatized. Truly, the only meaningful option is some sort of radical revolution at the domestic level, back in the world of national contract law and national corporate law,...
24 Sep Symposium Exploring the Crime of Ecocide: Rights of Nature and Ecocide
a law of ecocide follow the definition initially formulated by the International Law Commission: “intentionally causing widespread, long-term and severe damage to the natural environment.” This is an ecocentric law, which considers the damage or harm suffered by the natural environment itself as the basis for the crime. In many ways, a law of ecocide is the logical extension of establishing rights of nature. Other “rights of nature” approaches focus on Constitutions, civil law, trusteeship/guardianship of lands, and legal personhood of natural objects. But these “rights of nature” measures typically...
06 Jun Symposium on Reproductive Violence in International Law: Glimpses of Reproductive Violence in the ECCC – Forced Breeding, Destruction of Maternal Healthcare, and ‘Ritualcide’
[ Boravin Tann is a researcher and lecturer at the Center for the Study of Humanitarian Law based at the Royal University of Law and Economics (RULE), Cambodia. Rosemary Grey is a Senior Lecturer at Sydney Law School, The University of Sydney.] 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 reproductive autonomy. The symposium complements a one-day conference to be held...20 Mar LJIL Symposium: Discussion of the ICJ Nicaragua Judgment
[Dov Jacobs is an Assistant Professor of International Law at Leiden University] This first part of the symposium will provide an opportunity to discuss some aspects of what is considered to be one of the key judgments of the ICJ, some 25 years after it was issued. The two comments you will read today, from John Dugard and André Nollkaemper are in response to the following articles that are published in the Leiden Journal of International Law. These articles are part of a two issue symposium celebrating the 25 years...
27 Oct International Law and Popular Culture Symposium: International Law and the Theatre – An Interview with Playwright Anchuli Felicia King
Essentially, I found that there’s a big difference between how international law exists in theory versus how it exists in practice. The ATS is a particularly interesting case study in the practical implementation of international law, because it’s this obscure 18th century statute which grants US federal courts jurisdiction over lawsuits filed by foreign nationals, specifically for torts that are “committed in violation of the Law of Nations or a treaty of the United States.” So you can already see why there’s virulent debate about the scope and interpretation of...