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18 Jun Contingency in International Law Symposium: How Could International Law Have Been Otherwise? A Rejoinder
...fit all too well with the increasing dominance of neo-liberalism. Other contributions tell a similar story. Thinking about contingency simultaneously appeals to opposing critical sensibilities. It refuses to resign to reality and wants to show alternative possibilities of the past. At the same time, it wants to reveal the determining forces that have compelled the law down one path rather than another. The current blog symposium recognizes this duality and pulls us further into both directions. Thinking about contingency serves, as Doreen Lustig writes in her post, as a ‘mindset...
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...
30 Jan Symposium in Remembrance of Judge Antônio Augusto Cançado Trindade: The Legacy of Antônio Augusto Cançado Trindade by Leonardo Nemer Caldeira Brant
To close this symposium on the life and work of Judge Cançado Trindade, the editors of Afronomicslaw, Opinio Juris and Agenda Estado de Derecho had the opportunity to interview the recently appointed and also Latin American Judge Leonardo Nemer Caldeira Brant in December 2022. The conversation focuses on the impact of Cançado Trindade’s scholarship, case law, individual opinions, and his legacy for international law. Also, the challenges he is facing as judge of the International Court of Justice (ICJ). Portrait of Judge Leonardo Nemer Caldeira Brant from Brazil Photographie: Photo...