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04 Jun Symposium on Reproductive Violence in International Law: The Reproductive Justice Movement and International Criminal Law
[Kimberly Mutcherson is a Professor of Law at Rutgers Law School] 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 survivors will meet in The Hague and online to share knowledge and strategies for addressing reproductive violence in international criminal law....
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...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...
05 Jun Symposium on Reproductive Violence in International Law: Legal Recognition of Children Born of Conflict-Related Sexual Violence in International Criminal Law
reproductive autonomy. The symposium complements a one-day conference to be held on 11 June 2024, in which legal practitioners, scholars, activists, and survivors will meet in The Hague and online to share knowledge and strategies for addressing reproductive violence in international criminal law. Interested readers can register to attend the conference online without cost. Conflict-related sexual violence (CRSV) is being increasingly investigated and prosecuted in international courts and tribunals. However, children born of CRSV have remained largely invisible in these processes. In cases where they are referred to, (for instance at...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...14 Apr Virginia Journal of International Law, Vol. 49-3: 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 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 –...
25 Sep Symposium Exploring the Crime of Ecocide: Accountability for Environmental Destruction–Ecocide in National and International Law (Part I)
[Tarini Mehta is Assistant Professor of Environmental Law, Assistant Dean of Student Affairs and Director of the Environmental Law and Science Advocacy Forum at Jindal School of Environment & Sustainability, O.P. Jindal Global University, India.] [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...
31 Oct Symposium on the ECCC: Narrating History at the ECCC – A Tale of Two Trials
...symposium reflects on the ECCC’s trials, tribulations, and legacy. In this post, Sarah Williams compares the narrative that emerged from the ECCC with that of the 1979 Khmer Rouge tribunal, in relation to genocide and other crimes (for more on the ECCC’s adjudication of genocide, see Rachel Killean’s post in this symposium). [ Dr Sarah Williams is a Professor at the University of New South Wales, in the School of Global & Public Law.] The ECCC differs from other international criminal tribunals in that it is focused on events that...