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09 Oct LJIL Symposium Vol 25-3: Wording in International Law: Not really a ‘hen house’: dynamics of competition amidst fears of oblivion
[ Francesco Messineo is a Lecturer in Law, Kent Law School, Canterbury (UK).] This post is part of the Leiden Journal of International Law Vol 25-3 symposium. Other posts in this series can be found in the related posts below. Unless international lawyers get their act together and agree on the basic meaning of the key terms in their discipline, says Jean d’Aspremont, observers (and, crucially, funders) may suddenly realize that the profession is really no more than an ‘expensive debating club’ – often funded by the taxpayer – ‘in...
20 Apr Symposium: The Responsibility to Protect in Libya and Syria–Introductory Post
[Yasmine Nahlawi is an independent researcher specialising in R2P and its applicability to the Syrian and Libyan conflicts. She holds a PhD in Public International Law from Newcastle University, LLM in International Legal Studies from Newcastle University, and BSc in Political Science from Eastern Michigan University.] Throughout the Syrian conflict, I led policy initiatives for civilian protection alongside civil society leaders, iNGOs, and public officials within the UK and wider Europe. Despite the flagrant international law violations committed within the conflict that amounted to mass atrocity crimes, and despite the...
23 Aug Symposium on Informers Up Close: Journeys – Engaging with Informers Up Close
our approach, the ethics of letting go, the ethics of respecting the lives of others. If this is one contribution that Informers Up Close could make, namely ensuring dignity through detail, to flourish by not being flat, then we feel this entire project, this adventurous journey – bold, soft, and sassy — could inclusively inspire to make law scholarship not law-less but a bit more law-light, and in this vein bring ‘order’ closer to the ‘soul’. Indeed, this, too – as Nesam remarks – is its own methodology. We are...
20 Apr Book Symposium: The Responsibility to Protect in Libya and Syria
upon diverse legal frameworks – including the laws of the UN, laws of international organisations, human rights law, humanitarian law, criminal law, environmental law, and laws of State responsibility – to extract conclusions regarding existing and emerging host and third-State obligations to prevent and react to mass atrocity crimes. It uses this legal grounding to critically examine specific aspects of the Libyan and Syrian R2P cases, engaging with some of the more traditional debates surrounding R2P’s application, most notably those that pertain to the use of force (or lack thereof),...21 Oct Book Symposium: The Electronic Silk Road by Anupam Chander
event in cyberspace occurs at once everywhere and nowhere, what law applies? How can consumers be protected when engaging with companies across the world? In this accessible book, cyber-law expert Anupam Chander provides the first thorough discussion of the law that relates to global Internet commerce. Addressing up-to-the-minute examples, such as Google’s struggles with China, the Pirate Bay’s skirmishes with Hollywood, and the outsourcing of services to India, the author insightfully analyzes the difficulties of regulating Internet trade. Chander then lays out a framework for future policies, showing how countries...
31 Aug Symposium on Myanmar and International Indifference: Rethinking Accountability – Centering Accountability in Asia: Universal Jurisdiction, Grave Breaches, and Cautious Optimism
(at 127). If these distinctions are no longer relevant and customary international law applies, then an examination of enabling legal frameworks turns from examining grave breaches to how the forum State applies customary international law domestically—and whether there is appetite and existing precedent to use this for the prosecution of non-international armed conflict war crimes. Notably, there has been at least some domestic judicial recognition of customary international law regarding grave breaches applicability to NIAC. Further, any relevance of customary international law in domestic forum States without Rome Statute ratification...29 May VJIL Symposium: Comment – Second Party and Third Party Punishment
[Jonathan Baron is Professor of Psychology at the University of Pennsylvania.] This post is part of the Virginia Journal of International Law/Opinio Juris Symposium, Volume 52, Issue 3. Other posts in this series can be found in the related posts below. Thank you to the Virginia Journal of International Law for inviting me to participate and to Opinio Juris for hosting this discussion. I found this Article to be interesting and informative. It all makes sense to me, and I have no major criticisms. I would like to mention a...