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19 Jan International Law in the Asian Century: Conclusion to Opinio Juris and EJIL:Talk! Mini-Symposium
...esteemed scholars and practitioners were willing to take part in this joint Opinio Juris and EJIL:Talk! symposium and offer their responses to arguments put forward in my article for the current issue of EJIL, giving me and other readers refinements and additions that will enrich the larger conversation of which this symposium is a part. The six commentators raise many issues, which I will address under three broad headings of power, history, and method. Each also brings to their paper a certain optimism or pessimism about what the future may...31 Mar HILJ Online Symposium: Volumes 54(2) & 55(1)
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. The HILJ Online Symposium is a week-long discussion by scholars and practitioners on selected print articles from the Harvard International Law Journal. The Symposium takes place on the Opinio Juris website once or twice a year and features responses by scholars and practitioners selected by the Journal and sur-responses by the original authors. The schedule for HILJ Online Symposium: Volumes 54(2) & 55(1) is...08 Oct Quotable Quotes from the Fordham Law Review Symposium
Along with Julian, I had the good fortune to participate in a symposium last week at Fordham Law School on “International Law and The Constitution: Terms of Engagement.” Details about the symposium are available here. The Fordham Law Review will devote a symposium issue to the conference in the near future. Here are a few quotes from the symposium: The strongest response that can be made to those who challenge violations of the laws of war by the Bush Administration is that these same voices were silent when the laws...14 Apr Virginia Journal of International Law, Vol. 48-3: Opinio Juris Online Symposium
The Virginia Journal of International Law is pleased to continue its partnership with Opinio Juris in this third online symposium. This week’s symposium will feature three articles recently published in Vol. 48-3 of VJIL, available here . Our discussion on Tuesday will focus on the mysterious history of Alexander Nahum Sack, the Russian-born legal scholar whose once obscure theory of “odious debts” has found new life among contemporary proponents of debt forgiveness. In their article, A Convenient Untruth: Fact and Fantasy in the Doctrine of Odious Debts, Sarah Ludington (Duke)...
30 Apr Beyond Territoriality: Symposium on Jurisdictional “Hooks” for (Extraterritorial) Human Rights Obligations – Why We Need a Firm Justificatory Basis for Extraterritorial Human Rights Obligations and How We Could Get There
...concrete legal challenge. In doing so, I follow and summarize the approach and main line of argument of my recent book on the topic. The claim is: If we want to convincingly argue for extraterritorial human rights obligations at the legal level, we need to base this on a justificatory normative theory. The question of extraterritorial human rights obligations has, up until today, mostly been discussed within legal scholarship, initiated in the late 1990s (see the introduction to this symposium by Durmuş). The impressive body of research developed over the...20 Mar LJIL Symposium: Response of Lori F. Damrosch to Comments by John Dugard
[Lori F. Damrosch is Henry L. Moses Professor of Law and International Organization and Hamilton Fish Professor of International Law and Diplomacy at Columbia Law School] My article, ‘The Impact of the Nicaragua Case on the Court and Its Role: Harmful, Helpful, or In Between?’ originated as a contribution to a symposium convened on the 25th anniversary of the delivery of the merits judgment in the case. I took as my starting point one of the statements issued by the US government while the case was pending, which had predicted...29 Mar Symposium: Kanwar Reply to Murphy
[Vik Kanwar is a JSD candidate at NYU, a Westerfield Fellow at Loyola New Orleans College of Law and a contributor to the Opinio Juris On-line Symposium] My sincere thanks to Professor Sean D. Murphy for his careful reading of my paper, for his clear exposition of the challenging context in which it is written, and for confirming in my mind the need for further (and more critical) study on this topic. His comments are especially helpful in separating what might be valuable and worth retaining from what might be...29 Mar Symposium: Osofsky Reply to Knox
[Hari Osofsky is Assistant Professor of Law at University of Oregon and a contributor to the Opinio Juris On-Line Symposium. She blogs regularly at IntLawGrrls] I would like to begin by thanking the Opinio Juris bloggers for their hard work in conceptualizing and organizing their inaugural on-line symposium. I very much appreciate the opportunity to participate in it, as well as John Knox’s thoughtful reaction to my piece. This dialogue is a wonderful opportunity for junior scholars to get feedback on their work, and I am certain that my piece...
05 Aug Symposium on The Principle of ne bis in idem in International Criminal Law: Inter-jurisdictional Rules in the Rome Statute
[Megumi Ochi is associate professor at the Graduate School of International Relations, Ritsumeikan University, Kyoto. The Premises of International Criminal Procedure: Identifying the Principles in International Collaboration (Springer, 2024) is the English translation of her second monograph.] I am honoured to be invited to this book symposium on this outstanding monograph written by my friend, Gaiane, on a topic that has interested me since my graduate school years. While I am not yet ready to publish the English translation of my first Japanese monograph on ne bis in idem in...
05 Dec Remembering Antônio Augusto Cançado Trindade and his Legacy: A Joint Symposium
...of the individual as the centre of his claims. Whether one agreed or disagreed with his views, his writings, decisions, and opinions shaped the direction of international legal scholarship, particularly in the Global South. In Latin America, he will be long remembered as a key figure of the Latin American approach to international law, even by his critics. Given his influence in the discipline, we at Afronomicslaw, Opinio Juris and Agenda Estado de Derecho have decided to partner to host a joint symposium to both honour and discuss his legacy...