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24 Sep Symposium on Protest and Legal Mobilization: Protest as Rule of Law Engagement – Reflections on Protest as Legal Mobilization
a multifaceted engagement with law to push for change and as an analytical tool to understand law as part of social and political practices. The discussions challenged my ideas on how the rule of law is implicated in legal mobilization, especially when it comes to protest as a legal mobilization tactic. Rule of law considerations come to the fore in policing protest, in freedom of speech guarantees, and in issues of civil and uncivil disobedience. Rule of law as an ideal to fight for, to take to the streets, is...
12 Jul Book Symposium on Intervention in Civil Wars: Effectiveness, Legitimacy and Human Rights
This week, we are excited to host a symposium on Chiara Redaelli’s Intervention in Civil Wars: Effectiveness, Legitimacy and Human Rights. Scholars and practitioners who will be contributing include: John Hursh, Brad Roth, Luca Ferro, Erin Pobjie, Laura Iñigo and our own Alonso Gurmendi and will close with a rejoinder from Chiara herself From the publisher: This book investigates the extent to which traditional international law regulating foreign interventions in internal conflicts has been affected by the human rights paradigm. Since the adoption of the Charter of the United Nations,...27 Oct Testing the Limits of International Law: Symposium at Univ. of Georgia, Oct. 28-29
Peter Spiro and Dan Bodansky at the University of Georgia Law School are hosting a symposium this weekend to discuss and critique Jack Goldsmith and Eric Posner’s informative and provocative book, The Limits of International Law. I discussed the book’s central thesis — that international law is merely a reflection of states acting rationally to pursue their interests in relation with other states — in an earlier post. In addition to Goldsmith and Posner, papers are being presented by Philippe Sands (London), David Golove (NYU), Kal Raustiala (UCLA), Andrew Guzman...03 Oct Book Symposium Investment Law: A Reply to Gabrielle Marceau
[Dr Mary E. Footer is Professor of International Economic Law at the University of Notthingham, School of Law.] First of all my thanks to Freya Baetens and Opinio Juris for hosting the Book Symposium on Investment Law and for giving me the opportunity to post details of my chapter. I would also like to thank Gabrielle Marceau for her generous praise of my piece but more importantly for her instructive comments. In response I shall pick up on one of her comments concerning the issue of “cross-fertilisation” of WTO jurisprudence...01 Sep Syria Insta-Symposium: Marty Lederman Part I–The Constitution, the Charter, and Their Intersection
...law to use militay force (per a U.N. S.C. authorization and per a NATO authorization) whether or not Congress approves. Pres. Bush claimed a right to use force in Panama per his interpretation of a treaty (among other claims), etc. The War Powers Resolution does not actually limit that authority (see http://ssrn.com/abstract=2061835). These points are part of the "intersection" between the Constitution and international law, especially Art. II, Sec. 1 ("the Executive power"), and Sec. 3 (the "faitful execution" of the Laws power). Regarding Libya, there was signifcant attention to...02 Mar YJIL Online Symposium: “The Laws of War and the ‘Lesser Evil'”
to deter Iran from acquiring and using nuclear weapons will be seen by the IHL community as America rejecting the most basic tenets of international law. Alternately, we can continue the wide scale intellectually dishonest approach of ignoring the unthinkable and pretending that the bad stuff isn't real and thus does not have to be accommodated by our academic theories of how things work. Benjamin Davis "any concrete step". This is a euphemism for what exactly? It smells of - "if we do not invade and overthrow the Iranian regime"...
06 May New Technologies Symposium: Introduction
be a general acceptance that international law should not be seen as a series of isolated regimes but as a collective body of regulation. Valid criticism can be offered where claims as to convergence in the law are concerned. It would be more accurate to recognise that there are, inevitably, differences in the way in which particular fields of law address their subject matter. The law regulating civil aviation, the law of armed conflict, the law addressing activities in outer space, human rights law, data protection law and environmental law...
02 Apr Symposium on Military AI and the Law of Armed Conflict: Front- and Back-End Accountability for Military AI
for an internationally wrongful act. In response, some have proposed stretching the law of superior/command responsibility to criminalize negligence by commanders, procurers, and others involved in the design and deployment of AI-enabled weapon systems, but this is a misguided and insufficient response. (Misguided because it threatens to further delegitimize international criminal law, insufficient because it would still not address all unintended civilian harms.) When civilians suffer the horrific consequences of armed conflict, they deserve redress. But neither international criminal law nor state responsibility provides any form of remedy when civilian...