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16 Sep Symposium on Tilman Rodenhäuser’s Organizing Rebellion
these groups are bound by international law and thereby accountable for their acts. Breaking new ground in addressing international human rights law, international criminal law, and international humanitarian law in one swoop, Rodenhäusers text will be essential to academics and practitioners alike. As this is a co-hosted symposium, half of the contributions will be found here at Opinio Juris and the other half at Armed Groups and International Law. We will try to cross-link, but keep an eye on both websites to follow along. We look forward to the conversation!...
01 Apr COVID-19 Symposium: COVID-19 Responses and State Obligations Concerning the Right to Health (Part 1)
...to the COVID-19 pandemic. In the United States, the lackadaisical approach of the Governor of Florida to the closing of beaches is a case in point, as is the continuous downplaying of the seriousness of the pandemic by US President Donald Trump, including recent suggestions that he would soon prematurely act to ease restrictions and controls. Where necessary, proportionate and based on evidence, and undertaken consistently with international human rights law, the expeditious (and pre-emptive) implementation of a variety of public health measures including quarantines, lockdowns and travel bans may...
21 Jun Symposium: Civil Liability Claims for Business-Related Human Rights Abuses – Opening New Frontiers
academia and legal practice to participate in the online symposium to discuss the wider implications of recent civil liability developments in the law and policymaking of corporate responsibility to respect human rights and identify the remaining gaps in the law. The first part of the symposium featured two webinars on the scope of the parent company’s duty of care and access to justice barriers in civil litigation. The organisers are grateful to the speakers and the audience for the engaging and knowledgeable discussions and thorough analysis of the underlying issues...
04 Nov Symposium on the ECCC: “It’s Time for the Record To be Set Straight”? History, Memory, and the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia
symposium reflects on the ECCC’s trials, tribulations, and legacy. Bringing the symposium to a close, in this post Pete Manning reflects on the ECCC’s contribution to memory and history about the Khmer Rouge period. [Pete Manning is a Senior Lecturer in Sociology in the Department of Social and Policy Sciences, whose authored works include ‘Transitional Justice and Memory in Cambodia’ (Routledge, 2017).] The final judgement of the ECCC offers an important opportunity to reflect on the social and cultural politics of memory and history that have been implicated and generated...
17 Feb Symposium on Rewriting Histories of the Use of Force: A Rejoinder
to the identity of international law as discipline and a profession. The question that arises is whether we can really consider that international law has one identity and that international lawyers across the globe share a core of common beliefs and values. As Miriam Bak McKenna indicated, Anthea Roberts argued in her book Is International Law International? (2017) that law is not necessarily perceived, taught and studied uniformly across borders. This is why I sought to analyse non-western textbooks (see the bibliography pp. 334-340), although I rapidly found myself confronted...
19 Sep Organizing Rebellion Symposium: The Second-Fiddle Perpetrators–Non-State Génocidaires
[Melanie O’Brien, Senior Lecturer in International Law, University of Western Australia, is an award-winning IHL teacher and Vice-President of the International Association of Genocide Scholars. Her research focuses on genocide and human rights. This is the latest post in the co-hosted symposium with Armed Groups and International Law on Organizing Rebellion .] Tilman Rodenhäuser’s book analyses non-state armed groups in international humanitarian law (IHL), human rights law and international criminal law (ICL). Rodenhäuser is ideally placed to consider this topic, with a background of having worked for NGO Geneva Call...09 Apr LJIL Symposium Vol 26-1: 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 symposium launches our second year of collaboration with Opinio Juris, which we hope to be as fruitful as the first in combining the in-depth discussions that arise in the Leiden Journal of International Law with the dynamic online community of the blogosphere. In order to start the new year with a bang, we bring you, from Volume 26-1 of LJIL, two discussions of fundamental...
31 Oct Symposium on the ECCC: Narrating History at the ECCC – A Tale of Two Trials
symposium reflects on the ECCC’s trials, tribulations, and legacy. In this post, Sarah Williams compares the narrative that emerged from the ECCC with that of the 1979 Khmer Rouge tribunal, in relation to genocide and other crimes (for more on the ECCC’s adjudication of genocide, see Rachel Killean’s post in this symposium). [ Dr Sarah Williams is a Professor at the University of New South Wales, in the School of Global & Public Law.] The ECCC differs from other international criminal tribunals in that it is focused on events that...23 Mar LJIL Symposium: The Debate Continues at ASIL on March 30, 2012!
Herik and Amsterdam Law Professor Jean d’Aspremont Presentation of The End of ‘Modes of Liability’ for International Crimes by University of British Columbia Law Professor James G. Stewart Discussant: University of Georgia Law Professor Diane Marie Amann Presentation of Shades of Grey – Soft Law and the Validity of Public International Law, forthcoming in the next issue of LJIL, by McGill Law Professor Jaye Ellis Discussant: University of Tartu, Estonia, Law Professor Lauri Mälksoo Q&A and discussion Cocktail reception You are therefore warmly invited to join LJIL’s birthday party, which...