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23 Jul Symposium on Mann, Humanity at Sea
I’m delighted to call readers attention to a symposium next week on my friend Itamar Mann’s new book, Humanity at Sea: Maritime Migration and the Foundations of International Law, which was just published by Cambridge University Press. Here is the 411: This interdisciplinary study engages law, history, and political theory in a first attempt to crystallize the lessons the global ‘refugee crisis’ can teach us about the nature of international law. It connects the dots between the actions of Jewish migrants to Palestine after WWII, Vietnamese ‘boatpeople’, Haitian refugees seeking...
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...
12 Sep Contemporary International Criminal Law After Critique Symposium: embodied justice through praxes of abolition feminisms
...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...
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...
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...08 Jun Virginia Journal of International Law, Vol. 49-4: 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 and two essays recently published by VJIL in Vol. 49:4, available here. Today, Dr. Anne T. Gallagher, Head of Operations of Equity International, Technical Director of Asia Regional Trafficking in Persons Project, and former UN Adviser on Trafficking, will discuss her article Human Rights and Human Trafficking: Quagmire or Firm Ground? A Response to James Hathaway. In a Fall 2008 article published in the Virginia Journal...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...
24 Oct 2nd Annual International Law & Pop Culture Symposium: Introduction
For the average (Western) person, October might be synonymous with Halloween, but for us at Opinio Juris, October has now become International Law and Pop Culture Month. As readers may remember, last year we hosted the first edition of this symposium, in collaboration with our friend Rachel Jones, with great success. Back then, we set out rather ambitious objectives: “[W]e hope to imagine alternatives of what the world could be, offering many possible alternative visions of human beings, law, and justice; engage with students by making connections between popular culture...