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24 Oct 2nd Annual International Law & Pop Culture Symposium: Introduction
and international law that help them become familiar with fundamental concepts; and create a space for conversation: how is international law imagined across popular culture compared to how professors teach it and how lawyers practice it? How is international law presented around the world in various places in different mediums: as a force for evil, good, order, or chaos? We were honestly blown away by the extremely positive reception and knew we had to do it again. This 2nd Annual Symposium on International Law and Pop Culture opens with Catherine...
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...
13 Sep Libya and International Justice Symposium: Impunity Begets Impunity
her family. Four of her family members were killed. She escaped but remains under threat. Civil society actors in Libya are also confronted with a myriad of laws and orders that restrict the exercise of basic civil rights. Authorities have relied on the constitutional vacuum and repressive Ghathafi era laws, such as the Publications Law of 1972 and the Law of Associations of 2001, to issue regulations and decisions that severely curtail freedom of expression, assembly and association. Regulations of the Ministry of Culture and Civil Society have been used...
22 Mar SCSL Symposium: The Important Contributions of the Special Court for Sierra Leone on Amnesties and Immunities–Reinforcing Foundational Principles of International Criminal Law, Part I
[Leila Nadya Sadat is the James Carr Professor of International Criminal Law and the Director of the Whitney R. Harris World Law Institute at the Washington University School of Law. sadat@wustl.edu. This essay was initially prepared at the request of FIU Law Review for its micro-symposium on The Legal Legacy of the Special Court for Sierra Leone by Charles C. Jalloh (Cambridge, 2020). An edited and footnoted version is forthcoming in Volume 15.1 of the law review in spring 2021.] The book that is the centerpiece of this micro-symposium, The...
18 Oct International Organizations Accountability Symposium: Compensation Practices from the Field– What Can the Practices of National Militaries teach IOs?
as loss of earnings. In addition, harms arising out of ‘operational necessity’ are excluded—a concept developed specifically in connection with UN peacekeeping operations. As Carla Ferstman noted in her contribution to this symposium, the UN has taken the position that these policies on compensation are lex specialis, and not guided by general principles applicable in other areas of law. This is where the practices of national militaries come in. Some such systems are highly formalised, like the US army’s approach to claims under the Federal Claims Act while others are...23 Nov Melbourne Journal of International Law, Vol. 11-1: Opinio Juris Online Symposium
will be Frans von der Dunk, Harvey & Susan Perlman Alumni and Othmer Chair of Space Law at the University of Nebraska College of Law. Our third contributor is Dr Douglas Guilfoyle, Lecturer in Law at the Faculty of Laws, University College London. Dr Guilfoyle’s article, entitled ‘The Laws of War and the Fight against Somali Piracy: Combatants or Criminals?‘ argues that the laws of armed conflict are prima facie inapplicable to the current counter-piracy operations in the Gulf of Aden off Somalia, and further, that the application of these...08 Sep Protection of Civilians Symposium: Protecting Civilians from Explosive Ordnances-An Example of Operational and Legal Challenges
[Kjetil Mujezinović Larsen is Professor of Law, Director of Research, and Deputy Director, at the Norwegian Centre for Human Rights at the University of Oslo. He is the author of «The Human Rights Treaty Obligations of Peacekeepers» (Cambridge, 2012). This post is a part of the Protection of Civilians Symposium.] By way of introduction, let me state that I agree with Marten’s analysis of the legal obligations of peacekeepers. Therefore, rather than rehearsing the arguments raised by the other contributors to this Symposium, I want to address a concrete issue...22 Mar The Most Dangerous Branch? Yale Law’s Symposium on Executive Power
Time for more self promotion… I will be speaking at a symposium being held this Friday, March 24 at my alma mater the Yale Law School on “The Most Dangerous Branch? Mayors, Governors, Presidents and the Rule of Law”. The symposium is about more than foreign affairs, but the foreign affairs component alone is pretty impressive (I’m not just saying this because of the well-known figures who will be participating, but because I’ve also seen the papers already). For a short preview of some of the foreign affairs issues we...
01 Nov Re-issuing our Call for Submissions: Confronting Systemic Racism and Sexism in Legal Academia
have progressed on the issue of gender disparity, we are told. For example, Philippe Sands proclaims that “the gender balance of those teaching law has largely been sorted.” Unfortunately, his claim is hyperbolic with male professors in the UK still outnumbering their female counterparts by three to one. British law schools could celebrate employing a record number of Black female professors across disciplines. Alternatively, they might confess that 11 professors spread across over one hundred law schools is an unenviable figure. Given that 1/3 of the 70,000 students studying law...