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15 Sep Guest post: A Response to Kevin Heller on the Nature of Self-Defense
for anticipatory self-defence? Might not a better analogy be with the law of neutrality? If the law of neutrality is a good analogy, then at least to the extent that the US Field Manual 27-10 accurately reflects the law, if Syria fails for any reason to prevent ISIS using its territory to support ISIS operations in Iraq, Iraq (and its allies) are justified in conducting attacks in Syria. Notably, paragraph 520 of FM 27-10 does not mention any preconditions, such as Iraq calling on Syria first or requesting Syrian consent....22 Sep ISIS versus Khorasan
...the terrorism threat that has emerged from the chaos of Syria’s civil war, and that the more immediate threats still come from traditional terror groups like Khorasan and the Nusra Front, which is Al Qaeda’s designated affiliate in Syria. Mr. Fadhli, 33, has been tracked by American intelligence agencies for at least a decade. According to the State Department, before Mr. Fadhli arrived in Syria, he had been living in Iran as part of a small group of Qaeda operatives who had fled to the country from Afghanistan after the...
07 Jul Introduction 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] The advance of artificial intelligence (AI) represents a seismic shift in how we regulate and structure societies. The question of what keeps us human in the age of algorithmic and synthetic reasoning is then far from trivial. Spontaneous creativity may be one of the answers. This symposium discusses my new book Art, Aesthetics and International Justice (Routledge, 2025). Six wonderful contributions appearing over the course of the next few days engage with the major themes...04 Feb AJIL Symposium: Response to comments on “A New International Human Rights Court for West Africa”
...see this debate linked to a larger set of literatures. We hope that this symposium will encourage others to investigate the forces that have shaped regional integration projects around the world and to use evidence from ECOWAS to inform regional integration theory in general. Our article attempts to stay on firm empirical ground and to generate as complete and accurate an account of the ECOWAS Court’s transformation as one can have at this moment in time. But here is the rub—what does it mean to say “at this moment of...23 Apr Symposium on the Functional Approach to the Law of Occupation
Kenneth Anderson Like to welcome all of you to OJ - delighted you are joining us for this symposium and thanks to Kevin for organizing it. Sari Bashi I'm looking forward to the Symposium - and appreciative that Opinio Juris is hosting this interesting discussion!...
09 Sep Libya and International Justice Symposium
Al kerrami Is this (Justice Symposium) gonna to say the truth about France, the KSA, Egypt, Russia, the UAE ...etc? Those countries who are making Libya as you said in your article. If you’re not going to tell the truth to the world and will end you (Justice Symposium) without any real solutions, please don’t do it; because talking is not enough for Libyans. Walid You forgot to mention Qatar and Turkey!...13 Jun Legally Meaningless “Red Line” Crossed in Syria
Patrick S. O'Donnell Alas, this meaningless red line does have meaning after all: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/06/13/obama-syrian-rebels_n_3438625.html (influence of folks like Samantha Power?) For a few of the reasons we might be troubled by this, see Patrick Cockburn's piece on the Syrian war in the London Review of Books (6 June 2013). Jordan with respect to NATO, Turkey, Jordan, or the U.S. targeting chemical and biological weapons in Syria as well as support for the opposition at their request, please see Use of Military Force in Syria by Turkey, NATO, and the United...07 Mar Ukraine Insta-Symposium: Ukraine Under International Law
...blog post tried to defend the Obama administration’s advocacy for an attack on Syria in August and September as well as the 78-day bombardment of Serbia in 1999. He said both could be compared to the desegregationist position in Brown v. Board of Education. The unlawful use of force in Kosovo and Syria was an attempt by the U.S. to change the law for the better. Koh’s position is flawed in many respects as respondents David Kaye and Carsten Stahn point out. The most basic logical flaw is that Koh...
08 May Symposium on ‘Marketing Global Justice’ – Monopoly Capitalism, Kitsch, and Accountable Accountability
...internet, twitter, insta, snapping. Fads, causes, self-promotion: the on-line commentariat contributes to the deluge of marketing(s), the simplification of content, the discourse of sloganeering. And, to be sure, the ICC itself tweets and retweets. A lot. Isabella Banks has studied these (re)tweets. What does she find? That despite all the social mediaing, well, the ICC ‘made little to no effort to solicit feedback or generate dialogue on Twitter’. You called it well, Christine, it’s the top-down ‘training’ of others. I remember reading Marshall McLuhan and his medium is the message....