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25 Sep Symposium Exploring the Crime of Ecocide: Accountability for Environmental Destruction–Ecocide in National and International Law (Part I)
[Tarini Mehta is Assistant Professor of Environmental Law, Assistant Dean of Student Affairs and Director of the Environmental Law and Science Advocacy Forum at Jindal School of Environment & Sustainability, O.P. Jindal Global University, India.] [This symposium was convened by Shirleen Chin, founder of Green Transparency. Shirleen was inspired by attending an Expert Working Group on international criminal law and the protection of the environment at the Promise Institute for Human Rights at UCLA School of Law in Spring 2020. See here for the original Opinio Juris symposium which emerged...14 Sep China, Taiwan and International Law: A Symposium in Honor of Professor Hungdah Chiu
Next month, the University of Maryland School of Law will host a festshcrift honoring Professor Hungdah Chiu. Professor Chiu was a professor at U. Maryland and a well-known scholar of international law. He also was one of the first, and still one of the most important, scholars on the study of Chinese law (including both China and Taiwan) in the United States. (To me, though, Professor Chiu will always be Uncle Chiu, the father of one of my best boyhood friends. I didn’t realize he was a world-renowned scholar until...
04 Jun Symposium on Reproductive Violence in International Law: The Reproductive Justice Movement and International Criminal Law
[Kimberly Mutcherson is a Professor of Law at Rutgers Law School] 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 on 11 June 2024, in which legal practitioners, scholars, activists, and survivors will meet in The Hague and online to share knowledge and strategies for addressing reproductive violence in international criminal law....16 Jan Symposium on Asia and International Law
The forthcoming issue of the European Journal of International Law will feature an article by Professor Simon Chesterman, the Dean of the National University of Singapore’s Faculty of Law, entitled Asia’s Ambivalence About International Law and Institutions: Past, Present and Futures. This week, Opinio Juris and EJILTalk will hold a joint symposium on the two blogs on Professor Chesterman’s article. The article’s abstract explains: Asian states are the least likely of any regional grouping to be party to most international obligations or to have representation reflecting their number and size...11 Nov NYU JILP Symposium: The Memories of Collectives, the Gadgetry of Victimhood
[Mark A. Drumbl is the Class of 1975 Alumni Professor of Law and Director, Transnational Law Institute, Washington & Lee University, and Visiting Scholar, CICJ, VU University Amsterdam.] This post is part of the NYU Journal of International Law and Politics, Vol. 47, No. 4, symposium. Other posts in this series can be found in the related posts below. Atrocity begins with story-telling. Elegies lament unrighted wrongs from ancient battles. Fables weave and spin the bravado of national or ethnic superiority. The roll, pitch, and yaw of an entire literature...
03 Nov Symposium on the ECCC: Beyond Forced Marriage – Sexual, Gender-Based and Reproductive Crimes in the ECCC
women into marriages and forcing them to consummate those marriages, using the crime against humanity of ‘other inhumane acts’. These charges resulted in convictions, as Melanie O’Brien details in her post in this symposium. The marriage-related charges were included at the urging of the victims’ lawyers (e.g. here, here and here), with support also coming later from the prosecutors (paras 485, 1443-1453). But the victims’ lawyers and prosecutors also asked the investigating judges to investigate and charge other sexual and gender-based crimes, without success. Among other things, these unsuccessful requests...
07 Sep Symposium: The 2nd Revised Draft of a Treaty on Business and Human Rights–Moving (Slowly) in the Right Direction
a detailed list of those crimes, which had a mixed reception during the negotiation session. The current draft aims to overcome obstacles and objections by replacing the whole lists with a succinct formulation: “States Parties shall ensure that their domestic law provides for the criminal or functionally equivalent liability of legal persons for human rights abuses that amount to criminal offences under international human rights law binding on the State Party, customary international law, or their domestic law.” (emphasis added) Although well meaning, the change may not serve the purpose...