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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...
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!...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!...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....
24 Apr Symposium: The Responsibility to Protect in Libya and Syria–Reflections
[Yasmine Nahlawi is an independent researcher specialising in R2P and its applicability to the Syrian and Libyan conflicts. She holds a PhD in Public International Law from Newcastle University, LLM in International Legal Studies from Newcastle University, and BSc in Political Science from Eastern Michigan University.] I would like to begin my response post by expressing my deepest gratitude to the distinguished reviewers of my book, Shannon Raj Singh, Anjali Manivannan, and Jessica Peake, for bringing in their diverse and insightful perspectives while reviewing ‘The Responsibility to Protect in Libya...04 Oct Aryeh Neier Calls for Syria No-Fly Zone
Aryeh Neier, recently retired president of the Open Society Institute (and former head of Human Rights Watch and the ACLU), has an opinion piece in Project Ricochet this week calling for a no-fly zone over Syria. He calls for it to be imposed by a regional force and NATO. The US would not lead the effort, though presumably it would participate via NATO – while providing backup, both material and political, another exercise in deliberately “leading from behind.” He is cautious about the US intervening militarily directly, and frames the...
28 Jul Transnational ne bis in idem for Corporate Involvement in International Crimes: The Lafarge Proceedings in the U.S. and France
involved in atrocity. In France, the defendant corporation Lafarge and several of its executives are under investigation for criminal charges that include financing of a terrorist enterprise, complicity in crimes against humanity, and endangering the lives of others (‘the French Proceedings’). Meanwhile in the U.S, in a criminal plea deal with the Department of Justice on 18 October 2022, Lafarge and its Syrian subsidiary Lafarge Cement Syria (‘LCS’) admitted to entering into business arrangements with ISIL and ANF. On this basis, Lafarge and LCS agreed to pay a financial penalty...
03 Dec UNSC Veto Power Symposium: Mass Atrocities and the Security Council–The Limits of the Law
...the Assad regime, but also because States beyond Russia and China have concerns about more ambitious measures in terms of both the implications for State sovereignty, and the possibility that such assistance could strengthen the hand of different non-State armed actors. As Trahan acknowledges, accountability and humanitarian measures are unlikely to halt mass atrocities by themselves. In a situation such as Syria, it is difficult to see how that could be achieved absent a use of force. Military intervention in Syria has of course been only fleetingly considered: I’d argue...