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24 May Lawmaking Under Pressure: International Humanitarian Law and Internal Armed Conflict Symposium
Over the coming week, along with Armed Groups and International Law, we are thrilled to co-host a symposium on Giovanni Mantilla’s latest book, Lawmaking under Pressure: International Humanitarian Law and Internal Armed Conflict. Scholars and practitioners who will be weighing in in addition to Giovanni include: Alonso Gurmendi, Neta Crawford, Kathryn Greenman, Alejandro Chehtman, Verity Robson, Charli Carpenter, Boyd van Dijk, Iris Mueller and Katharine Fortin. From the publisher: In Lawmaking under Pressure, Giovanni Mantilla analyzes the origins and development of the international humanitarian treaty rules that now exist to regulate internal armed conflict. Until...27 May Symposium on the Law of the Sea and the Law of Responsibility
This week we are delighted to bring you a symposium exploring the intersection between the law of responsibility and the law of the sea. The motivation for this symposium is twofold: First, although there is long interaction between the law of the sea and the law of responsibility, the law of the sea has become an area where the intersection is of increasing importance. The posts this week will highlight the ways in which the law of responsibility is being invoked in current controversies involving marine species and resources like...20 Feb Georgetown Symposium: Corporate Responsibility and the Alien Tort Statute
Just a quick note to flag an upcoming symposium at Georgetown Law on Corporate Responsibility under the Alien Tort Statute. It’s scheduled for all day March 27, 2012. Here’s a quick description of the event: Alien Tort Statute (ATS) litigation has emerged as a focal point in the field of corporate responsibility over the past decade, as foreign plaintiffs alleging violations of international law argue their cases in federal court. For corporations doing business abroad, liability under this statute is controversial and has the potential for substantial effects on human...
14 Jun Contingency in International Law Symposium
This week, along with Völkerrechtsblog we are thrilled to co-host a symposium on Ingo Venzke and Kevin Jon Heller’s latest edited volume, Contingency in International Law: On the Possibility of Different Legal Histories (OUP 2021). Scholars and practitioners who will be contributing include: Adeel Hussain, Ntina Tzouvala, Doreen Lustig, Vidya Kumar, Kanad Bagchi, Marina Veličković and Hirofumi Oguri. The symposium will close with a rejoinder by the editors. From the publisher: This book poses a question that is deceptive in its simplicity: could international law have been otherwise? Today, there is hardly...05 Apr NYU JILP Symposium: Response to the Commentary on Policing International Prosecutors
[Jenia Iontcheva Turner is a Professor at SMU Dedman School of Law.] This post is part of the NYU Journal of International Law and Politics Vol. 45, No. 1 symposium. Other posts in this series can be found in the related posts below. Many thanks to Opinio Juris and the NYU Journal of International Law and Politics for hosting the symposium and to Margaret deGuzman, Alex Whiting, Sonja Starr, James Stewart, and Kevin Heller for agreeing to read and comment on my article. I would like to use this opportunity...07 Mar New York University Journal of International Law and Politics, Vol. 44:2 Online Symposium
The NYU Journal of International Law and Politics is partnering once again with Opinio Juris for an online symposium. The symposium will correspond with the simultaneous release this week of our Vol. 44, No. 2 issue, featuring a ground-breaking piece by Professor James Hathaway, a world-renowned leader in refugee studies and director of Michigan’s refugee law program, and Jason Pobjoy, a Ph.D. candidate in Law at Gonville and Caius College, University of Cambridge and a visiting doctoral researcher at NYU. The article, Queer Cases Make Bad Law, serves as a...
02 May Beyond Territoriality: Symposium on Jurisdictional “Hooks” for (Extraterritorial) Human Rights Obligations – Reflecting on the Regulation of Global Value Chains and the Duties of States and Private Actors
...to the different tiers of production/supply will depend on the particular mHRDD law in question. For instance, the German law imposes due diligence obligations only on covered companies and their direct suppliers in the first instance. In order for such due diligence to extend to indirect suppliers there must be ‘substantiated knowledge’ of violations. Ultimately, like the relational approach discussed more fully in Sara Seck’s contribution to this symposium, rather than drawing a hard line between territorial and extraterritorial obligations, due diligence terminology instead draws attention to the relationships that...
23 Jan Symposium: Internationalized Armed Conflicts—Four Concluding Thoughts
...a result, the ICRC was abandoning the use of the term “internationalized internal armed conflict”. Some of the criticism in this symposium shares the ICRC’s assessment that the term was “misleading” because, as Tristan had written, it “might seem to suggest that a single legal framework – the law of IAC – applies to such situations or that they constitute a third category of armed conflict for which the applicable legal framework is uncertain” (p. 1251). Perhaps paradoxically, I believe that these reasons are exactly why we do need the...
04 Mar Unilateral and Extraterritorial Sanctions Symposium: A Rejoinder – Part II
...within the United Nations for their negative impact on human rights. The next chapter addresses the issue from the now classic perspective of due process in the context of the implementation of unilateral and extraterritorial sanctions, and offers a rare comparative analysis between the US, the EU and the UK systems. Two other specific issues then appear. The first, mentioned by almost all contributors to this Symposium, concerns the humanitarian impact of unilateral and extraterritorial sanctions on the population of targeted states, and is of the utmost urgency. The second,...