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27 Jun YJIL Symposium: Hall and Weiss Respond to Comments on Avoiding Adaptation Apartheid: Climate Change Adaptation and Human Rights Law
for the thoughtful contributions from Bonnie Docherty, Tyler Giannini, Robin Kundis Craig, Siobhan McInerney-Lankford, and JB Ruhl, scholars who have shaped academic discourse around climate change and human rights. We also would like to thank Matt Christiansen, who organized this symposium for YJIL. We’ve enjoyed receiving these thought-provoking reactions to our article and believe they warrant at least a brief response. As we conceded in our introduction to this symposium, there remain significant challenges in addressing global issues such as climate change through a human rights framework. Nevertheless, we continue...
04 Oct Symposium on Gender Representation: The GQUAL Campaign – Witnessing Change on Gender Balance in International Bodies
...the UN Human Rights Council Advisory Committee on “Current levels of representation of women in human rights organs and mechanisms” (the Report). As the first document formally adopted by the Human Rights Council (HRC) on the issue of gender balance in UN Treaty Bodies and Special Procedures, the Report offers a clear roadmap for States, the UN, and other actors to achieve gender equality. It also constitutes an important precedent to be followed by other institutions imparting international justice. The Report is the main theme of this symposium, where internationally-renowned...
05 Jun Symposium on Reproductive Violence in International Law: A New Era of Accountability for Reproductive Violence at the ICC?
[Valeria Babără works as Legal and Advocacy Officer with the Women’s Initiatives for Gender Justice , where she monitors and researches developments on the prosecution and adjudication of gender-based crimes, and contributes to legal publications including ‘ The Hague Principles on Sexual Violence ‘ and ‘ Judicial Approaches to SGBC at the ICC ‘.] This post forms part of the Opinio Juris Symposium on Reproductive Violence in International Law, in which diverse authors reflect on how the International Criminal Court and other jurisdictions have responded to violations of reproductive health and...07 Feb Harvard International Law Journal, Vol. 52(1): Online Symposium
The Harvard International Law Journal is proud to partake in its inaugural online symposium hosted by Opinio Juris. Beginning today, each day this week we will be bringing you discussion surrounding one of the articles in our recently released Volume 52, Issue 1. We would like to thank Opinio Juris for partnering with us, as well as the many contributors who have made this online symposium possible. Our discussion begins today with Mutual Recognition in International Finance by Pierre-Hugues Verdier (U. Virginia). This article on transnational financial regulation proposes a...05 Sep Emerging Voices Symposium 2016 Comes to a Close
The summer is coming to a close and so is our fourth annual Emerging Voices Symposium. We have featured fantastic posts from emerging scholars, practitioners and students over the course of the summer and a roundup follows of what it is that they have covered. Alexandra Hofer started our 2016 edition off with her post on assessing the role of the European Union as an enforcer of international law in the Ukranian crisis, concluding that both the EU and Russia ought to change their practices in order to escape the...11 Nov NYU Journal of International Law and Politics Online Symposium
[This post is part of the NYU Journal of International Law and Politics , Vol. 47, No. 4, symposium. Other posts in this series can be found in the related posts below.] We are proud to partner once again with Opinio Juris to present an online symposium discussing a thought-provoking issue of international significance. This year, we highlight Professor Rachel Lopez’s The (Re)collection of Memory after Mass Atrocity and the Dilemma for Transitional Justice, which was recently published in Volume 47, Number 4, of the NYU Journal of International Law...28 Aug Symposium: Aeyal Gross’s “The Writing on the Wall”
of Occupation (CUP, 2017). The book develops ideas that Aeyal discussed on Opinio Juris — in a symposium on the functional approach to occupation — more than five years ago. So it’s fitting that we discuss his book on the blog now! We are delighted to welcome a number of commenters, including Eliav Lieblich (TAU), Valentina Azarova (Koç) (who also contributed to the earlier symposium), Diana Buttu (IMEU), and Eugene Kontorovich (Northwestern). Aeyal will respond to the comments at the end of the symposium. We look forward to the conversation!...06 Apr Book Symposium: Interpretation in International Law–What’s In A Game?
...revealing the historical contingencies that led to it being regarded as sacrosanct in international law. Philip Allott’s contribution to the symposium is emblematic of the aims of the book: to promote critical and open-minded reflection on interpretive practices and processes in international law. We are grateful to our contributors for their participation, and to Opinio Juris for hosting this discussion. We hope that the insights contained in Interpretation in International Law, and this symposium, will stimulate further research on interpretation that does not shy away from methodological innovation and creativity....28 Aug Symposium on Occupation Law: Writing ‘The Writing on the Wall:’ Why and How to Rethink The Law of Occupation
these processes together, as I do in Chapter 3 and more generally in the book, is crucial to understanding the role of law in this occupation, and indeed in occupations in general. I am grateful to Opinio Juris for devoting a symposium to the book. Its 2012 symposium dealing with the functional approach, which opened with a post where I outlined it, was an important milestone on the way to the book and it is exciting that, in a way, we have now come full circle. I am thankful to...
31 Aug Introduction to the Symposium on Visual Investigations: Best Practice in Collaboration and Community-led Approaches
...that Opinio Juris is hosting a symposium on our frontline work over the past year – 2025 – 2026. We curated these articles to reflect upon the emergence of new collaborations and strategies within visual investigations, particularly from the Global Majority. Our symposium consists of a series of blogs authored by WITNESS colleagues, community partners, and collaborators, highlighting the development of tools and techniques that have significantly enhanced community-led approaches to accountability. These approaches include using LLMs for audiovisual analysis, community-based visual investigations, and owned digital archives documenting state violence,...