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06 Feb Symposium on Fairness, Equality, and Diversity in Open Source Investigations: An Introduction
...can have implications for whose voices are heard (or unheard) during the OSINT process and through open source evidence. This symposium delves further into these issues and more, with a stellar line-up of pieces on a wide range of topics pertaining to fairness, equality, and diversity relating to open source investigations and digital open source evidence. Each day of the symposium will feature posts relating to a common theme. Today, we begin with a theme at the heart of the symposium—the lived experiences of marginalized voices working within the OSINT...
15 Mar SCSL Symposium: The Continued Relevance of the Contributions of the Sierra Leone Tribunal to International Criminal Law
[Charles C. Jalloh is a Professor of Law at Florida International University. He previously served as a legal adviser in the Special Court for Sierra Leone and is founder of the Center for International Law and Policy in Africa based in Freetown. His related works include, as editor, The Sierra Leone Special Court and Its Legacy: The Impact for Africa and International Criminal Law (Cambridge, 2015). 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...
24 Jul Introducing a Symposium on Ljubljana – The Hague Convention on Mutual Legal Assistance: Critical Reflections
...the treaty. This joint Asia Justice Coalition – Opinio Juris symposium is to introduce you to some key aspects of the negotiations and to provide you with a flavour of the fortnight of intense discussions in Ljubljana, that have resulted in the ‘Ljubljana – The Hague Convention’. A list of contributions is listed below, with links: Priya Pillai, Introducing a Symposium on Ljubljana – The Hague Convention on Mutual Legal Assistance: Critical Reflections Vaios Koutroulis, A New Tool in the Fight Against Impunity for Core International Crimes Raquel Saavedra and...13 May New York University Journal of International Law and Politics, Vol. 46:1 Online Symposium
This post is part of the NYU Journal of International Law and Politics Vol. 46, No. 1 symposium. Other posts in this series can be found in the related posts below. The NYU Journal of International Law and Politics is proud to be partnering with Opinio Juris once again for an online symposium. This symposium is a discussion of Professor Jedidiah J. Kroncke’s article Property Rights, Labor Rights and Democratization: Lessons From China and Experimental Authoritarians, which was published in the NYU Journal of International Law and Politics, Volume 46,...20 Aug Online Symposium: Eric Posner and Adrian Vermeule’s “Terror in the Balance”
Opinio Juris is very pleased to host for the next few days an online symposium on Eric Posner and Adrian Vermeule’s new book, Terror in the Balance recently published by Oxford University Press. The format for this symposium will be familiar to those who followed the symposium we held three weeks ago on Michael Ramsey’s book, The Constitution’s Text in Foreign Affairs. We will begin with a few posts introducing the broad outlines of the book. We will then have comments from experts who will address various aspects of the...
10 Jul Conclusion to the Symposium on Art, Aesthetics and International Justice: The New Geometries of International Justice
[Marina Aksenova is an Associate Professor of International and Comparative Criminal Law at IE University] In this concluding post, I would like to offer a few observations on the themes raised by the participants of the symposium. Above all, I would like to express my sincere gratitude to the contributors for taking time to reflect on my book and offer their brilliant and innovative insights as well as to Kevin Heller and Opinio Juris team for generously hosting the symposium. The points I raise are not exhaustive but rather tentative...
17 Sep Symposium on Early Career International Law Academia: Call for Abstracts
...interested in contributing blog posts to the symposium are invited to send an abstract of not more than 150 words by 5 October 2021. Expressions of interest should be submitted to Dr Ntina Tzouvala (ntina.tzouvala@anu.edu.au) and/or Dr Barrie Sander (b.j.sander@luc.leidenuniv.nl). Decisions on abstracts will be delivered by 20 October 2021. The deadline for the full drafts is 30 November 2021. The symposium will be co-hosted by Opinio Juris and Afronomicslaw in the first quarter of 2022. Symposium Organisers Dr Srinivas Burra Ms Julia Emtseva Dr Barrie Sander Dr Ntina Tzouvala...
28 Oct Fourth Annual Symposium on Pop Culture and International Law: Introduction
day ends with Ramón Barreto Pirela looking into the right to a life project in the context of the film The Swimmers. The symposium will conclude onFriday, starting with Michael Randall’s analysis of the ethics and morals of drone warfare in the films Good Kill and Eye in the Sky, followed by Maria Pilar Llorens’ and Silvina Sánchez Mera’s exploration of the Argentinean icon Mafalda’s TWAILer worldview. The grand finale, though, is something special. Avid OJ readers may remember that back in 2021, during our first symposium, friend of the blog Nicolás Carrillo...
05 Feb International Economic Law Symposium: Response by the Author
...the participants when the idea for this symposium materialized. Adding to this dept, commentators provided excellent reviews over the last week. In the following I seek to address some of their arguments being aware that exchange will continue beyond the symposium. Why are Emerging Powers not more radical? I am very grateful for Cai Congyan‘s remark that in his opinion my perspective departs from that of many Western scholars and instead of focusing on the threat emerging powers – and particularly China – may pose for a value-based international order,...
08 Apr The Next ICC Prosecutor: A Joint Opinio Juris and Justice in Conflict Symposium
...Conflict. We will kick off the joint symposium with posts by Luis Moreno-Ocampo, the first Prosecutor at the ICC, and by David Crane, the first Prosecutor at the Special Court for Sierra Leone. We will then publish a number of posts each day next week, some at Opinio Juris and others at Justice in Conflict. We encourage readers to read the posts at both blogs – and to tell us what you think! Update (20 April 2020): Here is a list with all the posts in the symposium, with links....