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18 Mar AJIL Unbound Symposium on Third World Approaches to International Law
AJIL Unbound has just published a fantastic symposium entitled “TWAIL Perspectives on ICL, IHL, and Intervention.” The symposium includes an introduction by James Gathii (Loyola-Chicago) and essays by Asad Kiyani (Western), Parvathi Menon (Max Planck), Ntina Tzouvala (Durham), and Corri Zoli (Syracuse). All of the essays are excellent and worth a read, but I want to call special attention to Ntina’s essay, which is entitled “TWAIL and the ‘Unwilling or Unable’ Doctrine: Continuities and Ruptures.” Here is a snippet that reflects her central thesis: The similarities between this practice and...26 Jun YJIL Symposium: Introducing Adaptation Apartheid
This post is part of the Yale Journal of International Law Volume 37, Issue 2 symposium. Other posts in this series can be found in the related posts below. Margaux J. Hall is a Consultant in the Justice Reform Practice Group of the World Bank’s Legal Vice Presidency. She is based in Freetown, Sierra Leone. David C. Weiss is an Associate in the Antitrust and Competition practice group at Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP in New York. All views expressed herein are the authors’ own. We would first...
24 Sep Symposium Exploring the Crime of Ecocide: Can Deforestation Amount to Ecocide?
[Shirleen Chin is the Head of Advocacy & Strategic Partnerships for the Stop Ecocide Foundation , based in The Hague, that runs the “Stop Ecocide: Change the Law ” Campaign.] [This symposium was convened by Shirleen, who 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.] In July 2019, President Jair Bolsonaro of Brazil said, “Brazil...
15 Mar Book Symposium: The Legal Legacy of the Special Court for Sierra Leone, by Charles Jalloh
Another great symposium is lined up for this and next week discussing Charles Jalloh’s monograph, The Legal Legacy of the Special Court for Sierra Leone (Cambridge, 2020). From the publisher: This important book considers whether the Special Court for Sierra Leone (SCSL), which was established jointly through an unprecedented bilateral treaty between the United Nations (UN) and Sierra Leone in 2002, has made jurisprudential contributions to the development of the nascent and still unsettled field of international criminal law. A leading authority on the application of international criminal justice in...05 May Jus Post Bellum Symposium: Jus Post Bellum–The Value of an Interpretive Conception
[James Gallen is a Lecturer in the School of Law and Government at Dublin City University.] Jus Post Bellum: Mapping the Normative Foundations provides an important assessment of the potential of international law to shape post-conflict societies in a space of competing and fragmented debates. I agree with Eric de Brabandere’s contribution to this symposium that if jus post bellum is to add real value, it must demonstrate an advantage beyond existing approaches in areas such as peace-building or transitional justice. However, I am more optimistic that distinctive value can...05 Jul LJIL Symposium Vol 25-2: Fairness in International Environmental Law – Against Fairness? A Response to Mickelson and Posner
[Mario Prost is a Senior Lecturer at Keele Law School (UK) & Alejandra Torres Camprubí is a Research Fellow at the Faculty of Law of the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid] This post is part of the Leiden Journal of International Law Vol 25-2 symposium. Other posts in this series can be found in the related posts below. We would like to thank the symposium organizers and contributors for providing an opportunity to discuss some of the arguments we make in our recent article ‘Against Fairness? International Environmental Law, Disciplinary Bias,...
19 Apr Symposium on the ‘Legacy’ of the USA Sanctions against International Criminal Court Prosecutor Ms Fatou Bensouda and Mr Phakiso Mochochoko
...criminal justice field more broadly. The posts engage with various themes including: the discriminatory nature of the sanctions and what this means for ‘less-powerful’ states and their nationals; the USA’s relationship with the ICC; the potential effect on the ICC’s investigations in Afghanistan and Palestine; and the international criminal justice narratives and metaphors brought to the fore by EO 13928 and the resultant sanctions. We thank the contributors who, despite a global pandemic, have lent their time and knowledge to this symposium. We also thank OpinioJuris for hosting this symposium....25 Apr Alter Book Symposium: Reply by Karen Alter
...starting point for The New Terrain of International Law was the following question: If the ‘problem’ of international law is its lack of enforceability, then how does making the law enforceable affect the influence of international law? I cut into this very big question by focusing on a new set of institutions that were designed to address the enforceability gap in international law. The comments in this symposium push upon a number of choices I made as I then tried to make the project tractable. My first choice was to...
03 May Soldier Self-Defense Symposium: Self-Defense in Armed Conflicts–The Babel Tower Phenomenon
[Gloria Gaggioli is a Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF) Professor at the Law Faculty of the University of Geneva as well as Lecturer at the Geneva Academy of International Humanitarian Law and Human Rights and at the University of Neuchâtel (Switzerland). She is specialized in international humanitarian law and human rights law. Prior to joining the University of Geneva, she served as Legal Adviser in the legal division of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC). This post is part of our week-long symposium on soldier self-defense and international...
18 May Symposium on Systemic Racism and Sexism in Legal Academia: (Not) Only Men on the Walls
[Chris Carpenter is a lawyer and researcher in international law. She holds a J.D. from the University of Pennsylvania Law School and a master’s from the University of Cambridge.] This piece is about imposter syndrome, which I encountered in beginning my master’s at the University of Cambridge. When I submitted an abstract for this symposium, countless memories spanning almost a decade in higher education sprung to mind: sexual harassment from faculty, the blatant sexism of an interviewer when applying to law school, the experience of sitting in constitutional law classes...