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27 Apr Symposium on Legal, Operational, and Ethical Questions on the Use of AI and Machine Learning in Armed Conflict
...human life, liberty, and dignity. The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) set out its perspective on AI and machine learning in armed conflict in a June 2019 position paper, a shorter version of which appeared in the latest ICRC Report on International Humanitarian Law and the Challenges of Contemporary Armed Conflict. In this blog symposium, several experts use the ICRC’s position as a starting point for a conversation on AI and machine learning in armed conflict. Here is a running list of posts in this symposium: ICRC, Artificial...03 Nov Virginia Journal of International Law, Vol. 50-1: Online Symposium
The Virginia Journal of International Law is delighted to continue its partnership with Opinio Juris this week in this online symposium featuring three pieces recently published by VJIL in Vol. 50:1, available here. On Wednesday, Professor Alexander K.A. Greenawalt, Associate Professor of Law, Pace University School of Law, will discuss Complementarity in Crisis: Uganda, Alternative Justice, and the International Criminal Court. Professor Greenawalt examines the difficult institutional problems faced by the International Criminal Court (ICC or Court) in the context of the Ugandan peace process. In recent years, the government...12 Nov The Oxford Guide to Treaties Symposium: Evidence of “Secondary” Fragmentation
First of all, I need to say thank you to all the contributors to the current symposium on my book, The Oxford Guide to Treaties. It’s quite common in academic circles to have symposia on “affairs of the day” (and, to be clear, those affairs often trigger very important issues like targeted killing, cyberwar, climate change, the EU fiscal crisis, etc.). But, I think it’s equally important to step back from time to time and have conversations about the international legal system itself, of which treaty law and practice now...
07 Jun Symposium on Reproductive Violence in International Law: Reproductive Violence Against the Rohingya – A Perspective on Myanmar
[ Wai Wai Nu , originally from Myanmar, is the Founder and Executive Director of the Women’s Peace Network. Grant Shubin is a Senior Legal Advisor with the Global Justice Center.] 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 reproductive autonomy. The symposium complements a one-day conference to be held on 11 June 2024, in which legal practitioners, scholars, activists, and...
24 Sep Symposium Exploring the Crime of Ecocide: Rights of Nature and Ecocide
[Anastacia Greene is an Immigration Clinical Fellow with the Intimate Partner Violence Assistance Clinic (IPVAC) at the Levin College of Law.] [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.] Rights of Nature Legal Theory The “Rights of Nature” theory recognizes...
16 Apr Symposium on Confronting Colonial Objects: Introducing Debates
...(Principle 10: Multi-dimensional memorialization), and Non-Recurrence (Principle 11: Reviewing object ontologies and cultural national foundations of inalienability and deaccession laws, Principle 12: Object protection in source countries or communities of origin, Principle 13: Due diligence duties of auction houses and private collectors, Principle 14: Decolonial education). What new perspectives does the symposium provide? I am grateful for contributors to set the broader themes discussed in the book into perspective. The first set of posts focus on extractive histories and legal frames in a broader context. Alonso Gurmendi Dunkelberg discusses the...
27 Oct International Law and Popular Culture Symposium: International Law and the Theatre – An Interview with Playwright Anchuli Felicia King
[Anchuli Felicia King is a playwright, screenwriter and multidisciplinary artist of Thai‑Australian descent, whose plays have previously been produced at the Royal Court, Studio Theatre and Sydney Theatre Company.] In a symposium about international law and popular culture, it would be remiss for us at Opinio Juris not to solicit contributions from the other side of the divide – that is, from those making said “popular culture” and how they perceive the relationship between their art and international law. For this blog post, we conducted an interview with Anchuli Felicia...
04 Nov Symposium on the ECCC: “It’s Time for the Record To be Set Straight”? History, Memory, and the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia
...symposium reflects on the ECCC’s trials, tribulations, and legacy. Bringing the symposium to a close, in this post Pete Manning reflects on the ECCC’s contribution to memory and history about the Khmer Rouge period. [Pete Manning is a Senior Lecturer in Sociology in the Department of Social and Policy Sciences, whose authored works include ‘Transitional Justice and Memory in Cambodia’ (Routledge, 2017).] The final judgement of the ECCC offers an important opportunity to reflect on the social and cultural politics of memory and history that have been implicated and generated...20 Mar LJIL Symposium: Discussion of the ICJ Nicaragua Judgment
[Dov Jacobs is an Assistant Professor of International Law at Leiden University] This first part of the symposium will provide an opportunity to discuss some aspects of what is considered to be one of the key judgments of the ICJ, some 25 years after it was issued. The two comments you will read today, from John Dugard and André Nollkaemper are in response to the following articles that are published in the Leiden Journal of International Law. These articles are part of a two issue symposium celebrating the 25 years...
02 May Soldier Self-Defense Symposium: Self-Defense vs. Combatant Immunity
[Adil Ahmad Haque is Professor of Law and Judge Jon O. Newman Scholar at Rutgers Law School. This post is part of our week-long symposium on soldier self-defense and international law .] Suppose that a soldier from State A intentionally kills a civilian in State B. Maybe State A is fighting an international armed conflict against State B. Maybe State A is fighting a non-international armed conflict against an organized armed group in State B, without State B’s consent. (Or maybe the second case is just a subset of the...