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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...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 –...
25 Sep Symposium Exploring the Crime of Ecocide: Accountability for Environmental Destruction–Ecocide in National and International Law (Part II) The Way Forward
[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...
10 Sep Contemporary International Criminal Law After Critique Symposium: Visuality and Visibility in the Quest for New Critical Registers – Probing the Ecocide Aesthetic
[Daniel Bertram is a PhD candidate at the Department of Law, European University Institute. George Hill holds an LLM from the Department of Law, European University Institute and currently works as a researcher in London.] “International criminal law is dead, long live international criminal law!” There is an almost schizophrenic air to much contemporary discourse about the role of international criminal law (ICL) in world politics. In the scholarly world of scientific journals, academic conferences and classroom debates, ICL has come to be viewed with suspicion. From prosecutorial choices to...14 Apr Virginia Journal of International Law, Vol. 50-3: Online Symposium
advocating convergence on a shareholder-centric model, to the degree that they fail to address the political, social, and cultural factors conditioning the degree of shareholder-centrism in U.S. and U.K. corporate governance. Professor Brian Cheffins of the University of Cambridge Faculty of Law will serve as respondent. On Thursday, John F. Coyle, Climenko Fellow and Lecturer on Law, Harvard Law School, will discuss his Article Incorporative Statutes and the Borrowed Treaty Rule. In his Article, Professor Coyle examines how courts should interpret statutes that, by their terms, incorporate international law into...10 Apr LJIL Symposium: The Idea of Justice in International Criminal Law
[Darryl Robinson is Assistant Professor at Queen’s University Faculty of Law] This post is part of our symposium on the latest issue of the Leiden Journal of International Law. Other posts in this series can be found in the related posts below. I am deeply grateful to Jens David Ohlin and Mark Drumbl for participating in this symposium. Their comments are valuable and insightful, just as one has come to expect from their work. I am privileged to have the benefit of their thoughts. Jens advances an important clarification that...
27 Apr Symposium on Legal, Operational, and Ethical Questions on the Use of AI and Machine Learning in Armed Conflict
human life, liberty, and dignity. The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) set out its perspective on AI and machine learning in armed conflict in a June 2019 position paper, a shorter version of which appeared in the latest ICRC Report on International Humanitarian Law and the Challenges of Contemporary Armed Conflict. In this blog symposium, several experts use the ICRC’s position as a starting point for a conversation on AI and machine learning in armed conflict. Here is a running list of posts in this symposium: ICRC, Artificial...