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The Virginia Journal of International Law is delighted to continue its partnership with Opinio Juris this week in this online symposium featuring three articles recently published by VJIL in Vol. 49:2, available here . On Tuesday, Professor Vlad Perju of the Boston College Law School will discuss his article Reason and Authority in the European Court of Justice . Professor Perju’s article proposes a new vision for the European judiciary by presenting the striking case for politicizing the judicial discourse of the European Court of Justice. Contrary to the prevailing...

The Virginia Journal of International Law is delighted to continue its partnership with Opinio Juris this week in this online symposium featuring three Articles recently published by VJIL in Vol. 50:3, available here . Today, Christopher M. Bruner, Associate Professor, Washington and Lee University School of Law, will discuss his Article Power and Purpose in the “Anglo-American” Corporation . In his Article, Professor Bruner addresses the striking divergence between U.S. and U.K. corporate governance systems. Contrary to prevailing perceptions, Professor Bruner explains, shareholders in the United Kingdom are, in fact,...

...known in doctrine, particularly in French-speaking countries, the Paris Human Rights Center has chosen ASEAN as the focus of this symposium.  While ASEAN is a generalist international organization known most for its economic integration and cannot be considered a regional organization specialized in the field of human rights, its structure and actions remain closely linked to the promotion and protection of these rights. Vested with a community-based structure and a specific set of norms, this regional organization demonstrates a particular approach to human rights. The symposium will bring together academics...

...privilege of losing hope.” Raya Ziada, Pikara Magazine 2024 We are grateful for the possibility to offer reflections on embodied justice through praxes of abolition feminisms, such as transformative justice, somatics, care and grief tending, as part of this symposium’s engagement with abolition and international (criminal) justice. In this piece, we discuss how we approach ‘after critique’ as a liberatory inquiry into how justice feels when it is embodied, and how we have sought to bring embodiment to international  (criminal) justice work. We understand this liberatory inquiry as a tactic...

It’s that time of the year again! The editorial team at Opinio Juris is pleased to announce the call for papers for our Fifth Annual Symposium on Pop Culture and International Law. We can’t believe it’s already been five years! We welcome abstracts of up to 400 words on any topic relating to international law and popular culture (film, tv, books, video games, or more–get creative!). To be considered, please submit your pitch via email to Dr Sarah Zarmsky and Dr Alonso Gurmendi at s.zarmsky@qub.ac.uk by Friday 22 August at 17:00...

[Dr. Joseph D. Foukona is a Pacific Law and History Scholar, an Assistant Professor at the University of Hawaii Manoa.] [This symposium was convened by Shirleen Chin, founder of Green Transparency. Shirleen was inspired by attending an Expert Working Group on international criminal law and the protection of the environment at the Promise Institute for Human Rights at UCLA School of Law in Spring 2020. See here for the original Opinio Juris symposium which emerged from that meeting.] Pacific Island countries remain vulnerable to climate change crisis amid the global...

[Dustin A. Lewis is the Research Director at Harvard Law School Program on International Law and Armed Conflict. This post is part of our symposium on legal, operational, and ethical questions on the use of AI and machine learning in armed conflict.] I am grateful for the invitation to contribute to this online symposium. The preservation of international legal responsibility and agency concerning the employment of artificial-intelligence techniques and methods in relation to situations of armed conflict presents an array of pressing challenges and opportunities. In this post, I will...

[Dr. Sergey Sayapin is Professor at KIMEP University´s School of Law (Almaty, Kazakhstan).] On behalf of the editors, let me thank Opinio Juris for kindly hosting this book review symposium on International Conflict and Security Law: A Research Handbook. Our sincere thanks are due to Professor Kevin Jon Heller, Ms Ameera Ismail, Ms Aphiwan Natasha King, and the entire Editorial team at Opinio Juris for their excellent support. We were lucky to assemble an outstanding team of 64 contributors representing all major legal systems of the world and literally all...

Natalie Lockwood holds a J.D. from Harvard Law School, 2011; and an A.B. from Princeton University, 2006. This post is part of the Harvard International Law Journal Volume 54(1) symposium. Other posts from this series can be found in the related posts below. First of all, let me begin by thanking Professor Burke-White for his careful reading and thoughtful response. I’m honored that someone whose own work I admire so much has taken the time and effort to engage with my article. I am also grateful to Opinio Juris and...

[Alvaro Santos is currently an Associate Professor of Law at the Georgetown University Law Center.] This post is part of the Virginia Journal of International Law/Opinio Juris Symposium, Volume 52, Issue 3. Other posts in this series can be found in the related posts below. I would like to thank the Virginia Journal of International Law for the invitation to participate in this online symposium and to Opinio Juris for featuring my article and hosting this discussion. In “Carving Out Policy Autonomy for Developing Countries in the World Trade Organization:...

...Edward Said (1984) highlighted in his famous treatise ‘permission to narrate,’ the theme that sets the parameters of this symposium. Richard Falk, former UN Special Rapporteur, noted that: ‘Part of the Palestinian tragedy… is that others have again and again presumed to talk on behalf of the Palestinian people… these alien voices have consistently overridden Palestinian voices on the basis of geopolitical calculations and Orientalist thinking’. With its ‘fundamentally liberal… origins’ (p. 265) TJ provides the perfect linguistic apparatus of colonial control and containment. Although there has been a burgeoning...

the symposium include Mark Drumbl and Larry May. The organizers intend to publish the papers presented at the symposium as an edited book; Oxford University Press has indicated preliminary interest. If you are interested in presenting a paper at the symposium or contributing to the planned book, please send a 300-500 word abstract and a short C.V. no later than 30th May 2010 to Gerry Simpson c/o Cathy Hutton, Administrator, APCML (c.hutton@unimelb.edu.au). Doctoral students are welcome to submit abstracts. Questions about the symposium can be directed to Kevin Heller (kheller@unimelb.edu.au)...