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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...
21 Aug States of Justice Symposium: A Response
[Oumar Ba is an Associate Professor of International Relations at Morehouse College.] To write is a privilege. To be read, an honor. It takes unbounded generosity to critically engage with a book and offer an incisive critique in the midst of a global pandemic that has upended our lives. For that, I owe a profound debt of gratitude to my brilliant colleagues who have made this symposium a highlight of my intellectual journey. This symposium was sketched, planned, organized, and coordinated by one man: Owiso Owiso – whom, dare I...
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...
16 Jun Symposium on the 1951 Refugee Convention at 75: Introduction
...relevance of the 1951 Convention relating to the Status of Refugees (and/or its 1967 Protocol). While we should say, as it is practice, that the contributions may not necessarily always reflect UNHCR’s views, they provide a much-needed kaleidoscope of opinions to support the work of promotion and protection of the 1951 Convention. We are therefore extremely grateful for the precious contributions of all the authors of this Symposium. In the following contributions to this Symposium, the Director of UNHCR’s Division of International Protection and Solutions, Elizabeth Tan will outline how...
27 Jan International Law’s Invisible Frames Symposium: Teaching Against the Textbook – A Comment on ‘Going by the Book: What International Law Textbooks Teach Us Not to Know’ by Ana Luísa Bernardino
[Sofia Stolk is a researcher at the Asser Institute (The Hague) and the University of Amsterdam.] Note: In the spirit of the edited volume, we decided to make the main comments of symposium coordinator, Alexandra Hofer, and the responses of the author partly visible in the text in order to uncover, at least partly, the invisible frame of the editing process. Important in light of discussing textbooks: an author never writes alone. I want to thank Alexandra for this fun exercise and great comments. Teaching an introductory level course in...
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,...20 Sep IL/IR Symposium: What Can IR Learn from IL?
[Jeffrey L. Dunoff is the Laura H. Carnell Professor of Law at Temple University Beasley School of Law and Mark A. Pollack is professor of Political Science and Jean Monnet Chair ad personam at Temple University] Many thanks to Opinio Juris – and to all of the Symposium participants – for a stimulating and informative discussion of the virtues and vices of international law and international relations (IL/IR) scholarship. The Symposium highlights some of the ways that IL/IR research has enriched our understanding of the making, interpretation, and enforcement of...04 Apr NYU JILP Symposium: Policing International Prosecutors Introduction
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 are excited to collaborate again this week with Opinio Juris for an online symposium. The symposium will be a discussion of Jenia Iontcheva Turner’s article Policing International Prosecutors published in our Volume 45, No. 1 issue. Professor Turner’s piece analyzes the complex issue about how to “how to ensure that prosecutors are held accountable for their errors and...