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27 May Futureproofing Human Rights Symposium: Learning from the Nasa Indigenous Justice System to Rethink Accountability
[ Valeria Ruiz-Perez is a Research Associate at the Centre for Applied Human Rights (University of York) and a Visiting Fellow at LSE Law School. She is a main researcher of the Rethinking accountability from the bottom: Setting a research agenda on traditional grassroots justice mechanisms (TGJMs) project. Piergiuseppe Parisi is a lecturer in international human rights law at the Centre for Applied Human Rights and the York Law School (University of York), as well as the Principal Investigator of the project TGJMs project.] While international human rights and humanitarian...04 Apr HILJ Online Symposium: Hague Peace Conference Courts v. The Universe of International Courts
[Karen J. Alter is a Professor of Political Science and Law at Northwestern University. Alter’s most recent book is The New Terrain of International Law: Courts, Politics, Rights (Princeton University Press, 2014).] This post is part of the HILJ Online Symposium: Volumes 54(2) & 55(1). Other posts in this series can be found in the related posts below. Suzanne Katzenstein’s article is a very welcome systematic investigation of the Hague era and post-Cold War proposals to generate international courts (“ICs”). Katzenstein puts her finger on a serious problem in the...
19 Aug Introduction to the Symposium: The Panorama of Informers Up Close
state, and hence are victimized, their actions cause other individuals to suffer significant harm. Informers, then, become victimizers. Their hands may be bloodstained; clawed and curdled; supple but shameful. Yet, little is known about exactly why ordinary people end up informing on — at times betraying — others to state authorities. Moreover, little in the way of reflection (as opposed to reaction) has been given to what law should do about informers, afterwards, if anything.We hope to step into these parallel gaps. Through a case-study of Communist Czechoslovakia (1945-1989) that...28 Jun YJIL Symposium: Non-Instrumental Public Morals Justification of Trade Restrictions: A Comment on Howse and Langille
[Isabel Feichtner is a professor of law and economics at Goethe Universität Frankfurt] This post is part of the Yale Journal of International Law Volume 37, Issue 2 symposium. Other posts in this series can be found in the related posts below. Robert Howse’s and Joanna Langille’s article on the Seal Products Dispute is a truly admirable piece of normative doctrinal scholarship. The authors do not hide their preferences with respect to animal welfare and the protection of seals in particular. Their propositions as to the interpretation of WTO law...