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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...

[Jacob Cogan is Assitant Professor of Law at the University of Cincinnati and a contributor to the Opinio Juris On-line Symposium] My thanks to Professor Joost Pauwelyn for his thoughtful comments, to Opinio Juris for inviting me to participate in this online symposium, and to the Yale Journal of International Law for publishing my essay on Noncompliance and the International Rule of Law. In the essay, I argue that noncompliance is a necessary component of the international legal system. In so doing, I take issue with the majority view of...

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...

The Virginia Journal of International Law is delighted to continue its partnership with Opinio Juris this week in this online symposium featuring three articles and an essay recently published by VJIL in Vol. 50:2, available here. Today, Sean Watts, Assistant Professor, Creighton University Law School, will discuss his Article Combatant Status and Computer Network Attack. Professor Watts’s Article examines the critical question of combatant status in computer network attacks. Noting that few transformations in war rival the impact of computers and information networks on the conduct of hostilities, Professor Watts...

We’ve got yet another great symposium coming your way this week, this time featuring a discussion on Darryl Robinson’s latest, Justice in Extreme Cases: Criminal Law Theory Meets International Criminal Law, (Cambridge, 2020). From the publisher: In Justice in Extreme Cases, Darryl Robinson argues that the encounter between criminal law theory and international criminal law (ICL) can be illuminating in two directions: criminal law theory can challenge and improve ICL, and conversely, ICL’s novel puzzles can challenge and improve mainstream criminal law theory. Robinson recommends a ‘coherentist’ method for discussions...

[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...

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...

ethnographic exploration of the ICC at various geographic sites. I committed myself to taking seriously the role of emotion and affects as central (and not residual) to international law’s power. This study that led to the book’s publication does not argue for or against the court. Nor does it maintain a position on which interpretation of international customary law ought to be dominant. Rather, this contribution is an attempt to understand the force of the law beyond the black letter. It explores law’s force through the affective worlds that carry...

[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...

It’s that time of the year again! The editorial team at Opinio Juris is pleased to announce the call for papers for our Fourth Annual Symposium on Pop Culture and International Law.  We welcome abstracts of up to 400 words on any topic relating to international law and popular culture (film, tv, books, video games, or more–get creative!). To be considered, please submit your pitch via email to Alonso Gurmendi and Sarah Zarmsky at s.zarmsky@essex.ac.uk by Thursday 1 August 2024 at 17:00 UK time. Decisions will be communicated by 16...

The Virginia Journal of International Law is pleased to continue its partnership with Opinio Juris in this second online symposium. This week, we will be featuring two articles and one essay just published by VJIL in Vol. 48-2, available here. Thank you to the moderators of Opinio Juris for making available this great forum for discussion. On Tuesday, Haider Ala Hamoudi (University of Pittsburgh) will discuss his article, You Say You Want a Revolution: Interpretive Communities and the Origins of Islamic Finance. Professor Hamoudi’s article examines the jurisprudential philosophy of...

This symposium is organised by Tallawah Justice for Women e.v, a non-profit association which works to connect, empower and amplify the voices of women leaders of survivor and grassroots organisations. Tallawah works in partnership with the University of Nottingham School of Law, Gulu Women Economic Development and Globalisation (GWED-G) and other Ugandan grassroots organisations to amplify the voices of Ugandan women survivor leaders and grassroots activists.  Introduction On 28 February 2024, judges of Trial Chamber IX of the International Criminal Court (ICC) issued a long-anticipated reparations decision in the case...