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16 Feb Symposium on International Investment Law & Contemporary Crises: What Empirical Trends Suggest about the Future of the Field
...defer to States’ motives, proportionality, fairness, and legitimacy in exercising regulatory authority and have found for the Respondent State. The relative—though far from perfect, as will be explored in some of the symposium contributions—efficacy of the current investment law regime will therefore likely have a prominent role in how States and the international community navigate the future financial crises and their ramifications. The Contributions In this symposium with Opinio Juris, the convenors aim to generate a dialogue among leading investment arbitration scholars and practitioners reflecting on the Report’s findings and...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...14 Mar Bradley Book Symposium: Response to the Commentary on International Law in the U.S. Legal System
[Curtis Bradley is the William Van Alstyne Professor of Law at Duke Law School.] I want to give my sincere thanks to the eight contributors who commented on my book this week as part of the Opinio Juris online symposium: David Moore, Jean Galbraith, Julian Ku, Kristina Daugirdas, Bill Dodge, Mark Weisburd, Mike Ramsey, and Ingrid Wuerth. Each of these contributors offered valuable feedback on aspects of the book, and I am extremely grateful for their insightful observations. The book covers a wide range of topics concerning the role of...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...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...
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...