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Making Sense of Darfur will be holding an online symposium over the next few weeks dedicated to analyzing what is likely to happen in Sudan in 2010 and 2011. Here is how it’s described by Alex de Waal, with whom I rarely agree but always respect: Sudan faces two momentous events in the next fifteen months. The first is the general election, intended as the first multi-party nationwide elections in the nation’s history (earlier multiparty elections in the 1960s and 1980s did not include war-affected areas in the south, an...

[Ruti Teitel is the Ernst C. Stiefel Professor of Comparative Law at New York Law School and the author of Globalizing Transitional Justice (2015).] This post is part of the NYU Journal of International Law and Politics , Vol. 47, No. 4, symposium. Other posts in this series can be found in the related posts below. I am pleased to join this symposium about Rachel Lopez’ provocative article, The (Re)collection of Memory after Mass Atrocity. The article makes a contribution to contemporary transitional justice scholarship that challenges the normative relationship...

[Michael Ramsey is a Professor of Law at the University of San Diego. He will be posting today and tomorrow on his new book: The Constitution’s Text in Foreign Affairs. Please stay tuned for his posts, as well as for comments by our other symposium participants.] Thanks to Opinio Juris for organizing this symposium and inviting me to participate. Here are a few opening thoughts. The Constitution’s Text in Foreign Affairs (Harvard University Press, 2007) attempts to describe the distribution of foreign affairs powers among the branches of U.S. government...

[Sergey Sayapin is Professor at KIMEP University´s School of Law (Almaty, Kazakhstan). Rustam Atadjanov is Associate Professor and Associate Dean at KIMEP University´s School of Law (Almaty, Kazakhstan). Nicolás Zambrana-Tevar is Associate Professor at KIMEP University´s School of Law (Almaty, Kazakhstan). Noëlle Quénivet is Professor at Bristol Law School, University of the West of England, Bristol, United Kingdom. Gerhard Kemp is Professor at Derby Law School, University of Derby, Derby, United Kingdom.] We are very grateful to colleagues at Opinio Juris for the opportunity to hold a book review symposium...

...My historical analysis also engages rich ongoing debates among international lawyers and international historians about the contested origins of international law and institutions. Just as I strove to write a book that makes disciplinary and interdisciplinary contributions, this joint symposium between Opinio Juris and Armed Groups and International Law is meant to reflect this productive exchange across scholarly sensibilities. I am deeply honored and humbled by the willingness of a such an excellent cast of rising and established scholars of International Relations, International History, and International Law, as well as...

[ Rachel Lopez is an Assistant Professor of Law and the Director of the Community Lawyering Clinic at Drexel University’s Thomas R. Kline School of Law.] This post is part of the NYU Journal of International Law and Politics , Vol. 47, No. 4, symposium. Other posts in this series can be found in the related posts below. First, I would like to thank Professors Drumbl, Roht-Arriaza, Teitel, and van der Vyver, who so generously offered their time and expertise to comment on my article. I have really enjoyed the...

...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...

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...

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...

[Alexandra Hofer (a.s.hofer@uu.nl) is an assistant professor in public international law at Utrecht University and affiliated researcher at the Ghent Rolin-Jaequemyns International Law Institute (GRILI ).] Note to reader: most of this piece was written on Friday, 25 February. Given the speed at which the situation is evolving it may not be up-to-date at the time of publication, though it tried to take into account some of the additional measures announced as of 26 February. It would be unoriginal to start this introduction to the Symposium on Charlotte Beaucillon (ed),...

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. 49:3, available here. On Wednesday, Professor Duncan B. Hollis of Temple University James E. Beasley School of Law and Joshua J. Newcomer, Clerk for the Honorable Carolyn Dineen King of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, will discuss their article “Political” Commitments and the Constitution. The authors offer a novel constitutional theory of political commitments –...

[Eliav Lieblich is Associate Professor at Buchmann Faculty of Law, Tel Aviv University.This post is part of an ongoing symposium on Professor Aeyal Gross’s book The Writing on the Wall: Rethinking the International Law of Occupation (CUP, 2017).] Introduction Living up to its name, Aeyal Gross’s insightful new book engages critically with traditional assumptions of the law of occupation. As in his past work, Gross’s critique here is firmly rooted in traditions of legal realism, critical legal studies (CLS), and – in his constant attacks on binary legal categories –...