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05 Apr NYU JILP Symposium: Policing International Prosecutors Concluding Remarks
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. We would like to once again extend our deepest gratitude to Opinio Juris for providing us with such a wonderful forum to host this symposium. Thank you to all of the scholars who contributed insightful commentary, and especially to Jenia Turner for her thought provoking article. We hope this symposium helped to advance the dialogue about the complicated issues...04 Jun Targeted Killings Symposium: Introduction
...Whack-A-Mole Without a Mallet?” In lieu of a response from Maxwell, who is currently unavailable, John Dehn provides a response to some of the issues raised by Meyer. Finally, the symposium ends with a comment by Andrew Altman on Fernando Tesón’s chapter, “Targeted Killing in War and Peace: A Philosophical Analysis,” followed by a response from Tesón. Thank you to the editors at Opinio Juris for this opportunity. All Opinio Juris readers are welcome to use the comment section to respond to any of the arguments raised in the symposium....
17 Apr ICC Prosecutor Symposium: Placing the Prosecutor within the International Criminal Justice Project
pointing to the 2016 Office of the Prosecutor Policy on Children, on which I had the privilege of working.) Many, many of the symposium’s posts focused not on the position so much as the person. What qualities of character does an ideal Prosecutor possess? What skill set ought the Prosecutor bring to the job? And even, what nationality is most desirable for an ICC Prosecutor? This singular attention to the person and position of Prosecutor is entirely appropriate. The impetus for the symposium, after all, is last August’s vacancy notice,...
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,...
14 Oct International Organizations Accountability Symposium: An Introduction
with them. The introduction to the symposium is freely available here. We are delighted Opinio Juris is hosting a symposium on this fora this week – the authors will be contributing short blog posts on their work. The goal of the issue is to offer creative new ways to think about the issue of accountability of international organizations. It proposes to treat both the sort of systemic organizational failure evidenced in the mass torts cases and more localised but equally systemic problems of sexual abuse, as symptomatic of broader and...
08 Dec Introduction to the Symposium on Forensic and Counter-Forensic Approaches to International Law: A Cartography and Anatomy of Genocide
...the slow genocide unfolding in Gaza). Yet, as the incisive contributions to this symposium signal, it would be mistaken to portray the deployment of new digital and forensic technologies – from Earth observation and OSINT to remote sensing and computational photography – as a straightforward pathway to international justice, accountability or collective resistance. One strand of critique in this symposium questions the promise of forensic technologies to provide an unfiltered access to reality. As exemplified by the visual evidence conjured by the IDF to justify the bombing of Al Shifa...22 Jan Harvard International Law Journal/Opinio Juris Symposium for Volume 53(1)
The Harvard International Law Journal is pleased to announce its third online symposium with Opinio Juris. The symposium will begin tomorrow, Monday, January 23 and will run until Thursday, January 26. It features the following line-up: On Monday, Mark Tushnet will respond to David Landau‘s article, The Reality of Social Rights Enforcement. On Tuesday, Darryl Robinson and Carsten Stahn will respond to Kevin Jon Heller’s article, A Sentence-Based Theory of Complementarity. On Wednesday, Carlos Vazquez will respond to David L. Sloss‘ article, Executing Foster v. Neilson: The Two-Step Approach to...
23 Mar Symposium on COVID-19 and International Law
to the pandemic, Opinio Juris will host a symposium on COVID-19 and international law, kicking off next week on Monday, 30 March 2020. Convened by Barrie Sander (Fellow at Fundação Getúlio Vargas) and Jason Rudall (Assistant Professor at Leiden University), the symposium will bring together approximately 20 scholars to reflect on different dimensions of the COVID-19 pandemic from the perspective of international law. We hope the symposium will provide a useful entry point for examining the relationship between COVID-19 and international law and, as always, invite our readers to join the debate....22 Oct Symposium on Religious Extremism and Terrorism
Tomorrow (Friday, October 23rd), the S.J. Quinney College of Law of the University of Utah will host a symposium entitled Freedom from Religion: Rights and National Security. You can watch the symposium online via a link on this page. Here’s the brief description: Based on Professor Amos N. Guiora’s new book, Freedom from Religion: Rights and National Security (Oxford University Press, 2009), this Symposium will explore the limits of tolerance of religious extremism in five countries and its impact on the current terrorism threat our world faces. By drawing on...