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15 Mar Book Symposium: The Legal Legacy of the Special Court for Sierra Leone, by Charles Jalloh
Another great symposium is lined up for this and next week discussing Charles Jalloh’s monograph, The Legal Legacy of the Special Court for Sierra Leone (Cambridge, 2020). From the publisher: This important book considers whether the Special Court for Sierra Leone (SCSL), which was established jointly through an unprecedented bilateral treaty between the United Nations (UN) and Sierra Leone in 2002, has made jurisprudential contributions to the development of the nascent and still unsettled field of international criminal law. A leading authority on the application of international criminal justice in...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...
24 Sep Symposium Exploring the Crime of Ecocide: Can Deforestation Amount to Ecocide?
[Shirleen Chin is the Head of Advocacy & Strategic Partnerships for the Stop Ecocide Foundation , based in The Hague, that runs the “Stop Ecocide: Change the Law ” Campaign.] [This symposium was convened by Shirleen, who 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 from that meeting.] In July 2019, President Jair Bolsonaro of Brazil said, “Brazil...
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...12 Nov NYU JILP Symposium: Globalizing Transitional Justice
[Ruti Teitel is the Ernst C. Stiefel Professor of Comparative Law at New York Law School and the author of Globalizing Transitional Justice (2015).] 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. I am pleased to join this symposium about Rachel Lopez’ provocative article, The (Re)collection of Memory after Mass Atrocity. The article makes a contribution to contemporary transitional justice scholarship that challenges the normative relationship...
26 May Call for Submissions: Fifth Emerging Voices Symposium on Opinio Juris
This summer we will host our fifth Emerging Voices symposium, where we invite doctoral students, early-career academics and practicing lawyers to tell Opinio Juris readers about a research project or other international law topic of interest. If you are a doctoral student or in the early stages of your career (e.g., post-docs, junior academics or early-career practitioners within the first five years of finishing your final degree) and would like to participate in the symposium, please send a draft blog post somewhere between 1000-1500 words and your CV to opiniojurisblog...
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...19 Oct Online Symposium About the Future of Sudan
Making Sense of Darfur will be holding an online symposium over the next few weeks dedicated to analyzing what is likely to happen in Sudan in 2010 and 2011. Here is how it’s described by Alex de Waal, with whom I rarely agree but always respect: Sudan faces two momentous events in the next fifteen months. The first is the general election, intended as the first multi-party nationwide elections in the nation’s history (earlier multiparty elections in the 1960s and 1980s did not include war-affected areas in the south, an...08 Jun Virginia Journal of International Law, Vol. 49-4: Online Symposium
evolving doctrine on amnesty in transitional justice schemes. Professor Laplante also shares the particular case study of Peru to show how international law directly impacts national transitional justice experiences. She suggests that the truth v. justice dilemma may no longer exist: instead, criminal justice must be done. Professor Ron Slye of Seattle University School of Law will serve as respondent. On Thursday, Professor Mark Tushnet, William Nelson Cromwell Professor of Law, Harvard Law School, will discuss his essay The Inevitable Globalization of Constitutional Law. Professor Tushnet’s essay examines the forces...