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10 Oct LJIL Symposium Vol 25-3: Good Deeds of International Defendants: A Response
[Jean Galbraith is Assistant Professor at Rutgers-Camden School of Law] This post is part of the Leiden Journal of International Law Vol 25-3 symposium. Other posts in this series can be found in the related posts below. I want to thank Opinio Juris and the Leiden Journal of International Law for putting together this symposium. I am especially grateful to Professor Dov Jacobs for organizing this session and to Professors Mark Drumbl and Meg deGuzman for their thoughtful comments about my article. Some years back, I noticed how frequently international...09 Apr LJIL Symposium Vol 26-1: Introduction
[Dov Jacobs is the Senior Editor for Expert Blogging at the Leiden Journal of International Law and Assistant Professor of International Law at Leiden University] This symposium launches our second year of collaboration with Opinio Juris, which we hope to be as fruitful as the first in combining the in-depth discussions that arise in the Leiden Journal of International Law with the dynamic online community of the blogosphere. In order to start the new year with a bang, we bring you, from Volume 26-1 of LJIL, two discussions of fundamental...
10 Apr Symposium on Dominic Ongwen Case: Four Approaches at the “Centre” of Reparations in the Case of Dominic Ongwen
...in this symposium, and in the ASF et al amicus submission, victim-centred approaches to justice and reparations must ensure that active and inclusive participation by victims is ‘adequate’, ‘effective’ and sustainable. Thus, as the Chamber noted, consultations and outreach activities should be designed to take into account the victims’ needs, ‘including sensitivities associated with sexual violence’ and different ‘obstacles that victims may face in coming forward (para. 64). In the Ugandan context, ensuring an effective, victim-centred approach to reparations will be a difficult, time and resource-intensive process. The necessary exclusion...
21 Jun Symposium: Civil Liability Claims for Business-Related Human Rights Abuses – Opening New Frontiers
...academia and legal practice to participate in the online symposium to discuss the wider implications of recent civil liability developments in the law and policymaking of corporate responsibility to respect human rights and identify the remaining gaps in the law. The first part of the symposium featured two webinars on the scope of the parent company’s duty of care and access to justice barriers in civil litigation. The organisers are grateful to the speakers and the audience for the engaging and knowledgeable discussions and thorough analysis of the underlying issues...28 Jan VJIL Vol. 48-2: Opinio Juris Online Symposium
The Virginia Journal of International Law is pleased to continue its partnership with Opinio Juris in this second online symposium. This week, we will be featuring two articles and one essay just published by VJIL in Vol. 48-2, available here. Thank you to the moderators of Opinio Juris for making available this great forum for discussion. On Tuesday, Haider Ala Hamoudi (University of Pittsburgh) will discuss his article, You Say You Want a Revolution: Interpretive Communities and the Origins of Islamic Finance. Professor Hamoudi’s article examines the jurisprudential philosophy of...01 Feb Virginia Journal of International Law, Vol. 50-2: 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 an essay recently published by VJIL in Vol. 50:2, available here. Today, Sean Watts, Assistant Professor, Creighton University Law School, will discuss his Article Combatant Status and Computer Network Attack. Professor Watts’s Article examines the critical question of combatant status in computer network attacks. Noting that few transformations in war rival the impact of computers and information networks on the conduct of hostilities, Professor Watts...
08 Apr Symposium on Dominic Ongwen Case: Perspectives from Ugandan Survivors and Activists on Reparations in the Dominic Ongwen Case
This symposium is organised by Tallawah Justice for Women e.v, a non-profit association which works to connect, empower and amplify the voices of women leaders of survivor and grassroots organisations. Tallawah works in partnership with the University of Nottingham School of Law, Gulu Women Economic Development and Globalisation (GWED-G) and other Ugandan grassroots organisations to amplify the voices of Ugandan women survivor leaders and grassroots activists. Introduction On 28 February 2024, judges of Trial Chamber IX of the International Criminal Court (ICC) issued a long-anticipated reparations decision in the case...24 Jun Linos Book Symposium: Response to Larry Helfer and David Zaring
[Katerina Linos is an Assistant Professor of Law at Berkeley Law] I am thrilled that Opinio Juris has chosen to host a symposium on The Democratic Foundations of Policy Diffusion, and has lined up an amazing group of international law scholars to comment on different parts of the book. Special thanks to An Hertogen, Roger Alford, and Peggy McGuinness for all of their work in putting together this symposium. Today, I am honored to receive comments from Larry Helfer and David Zaring. Larry Helfer’s work on international legal theory, human...26 Jun Yale Journal of International Law Symposium: Volume 37 Issue No. 2
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. The Yale Journal of International Law (YJIL) is pleased to continue its partnership with Opinio Juris through this symposium. Over the next three days we will be discussing two Articles from Volume 37, Issue No. 2. Our sincere thanks to An Hertogen and the rest of the Opinio Juris team for hosting this exciting discussion. First, in Avoiding Adaptation Apartheid: Climate...
22 Aug Symposium on The Sentimental Life of International Law: Introduction
I am delighted to announce that this week Opinio Juris will be hosting a symposium on Gerry Simpson‘s wonderful new book “The Sentimental Life of International Law.” Here is Oxford University Press’s description: The Sentimental Life of International Law is about our age-old longing for a decent international society and the ways of seeing, being, and speaking that might help us achieve that aim. This book asks how international lawyers might engage in a professional practice that has become, to adapt a title of Janet Malcolm’s, both difficult and impossible....