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16 Sep Transitional Justice Symposium: Tracing the Experience of Brazilian Transitional Justice and Its Discontents
[Tatiana Waisberg is an international Law lecturer, researcher and author of books and articles focusing on International Law, Transitional Justice, Latin America Studies, Terrorism and Human Rights, and a ZviMeitar Center for Legal Advanced Studies Research Fellow (20050-8).] This symposium offers an excellent opportunity to reflect on the transitional justice phenomenology over the two decades that followed the launch of Transitional Justice by Professor Ruti Teitel. The book unveiled a groundbreaking insight into a very distinctive concept of justice associated with extraordinary and radical legal and political shifts towards democratization....23 Oct Book Symposium The Electronic Silk Road: The Unexpected Alliance of Trade and Human Rights
[Molly Land is Professor of Law at the University of Connecticut School of Law] I’m delighted to be able to take part in this online symposium dedicated to Anupam Chander’s new book, The Electronic Silk Road: How the Web Binds the World Together in Commerce. Chander’s book masterfully brings together a set of debates about technology, privacy, and human rights to consider the pitfalls and promise of regulating Internet trade. In an accessible and engaging way, Chander reorients our thinking about the Internet by locating it firmly in the trajectory...
19 Sep Organizing Rebellion Symposium: The Second-Fiddle Perpetrators–Non-State Génocidaires
[Melanie O’Brien, Senior Lecturer in International Law, University of Western Australia, is an award-winning IHL teacher and Vice-President of the International Association of Genocide Scholars. Her research focuses on genocide and human rights. This is the latest post in the co-hosted symposium with Armed Groups and International Law on Organizing Rebellion .] Tilman Rodenhäuser’s book analyses non-state armed groups in international humanitarian law (IHL), human rights law and international criminal law (ICL). Rodenhäuser is ideally placed to consider this topic, with a background of having worked for NGO Geneva Call...16 Nov A Short Response to Ilya Somin: Does Self-Defense Mean the U.S. Can Invade and Occupy Syria?
...against the attacker up to and including invasion and occupation of another country? Similarly, do the Paris attacks(assuming Article V were invoked) allow President Obama to launch military strikes (and maybe invade and occupy) Syria? Surely, the President could have ordered U.S. forces to defend France without Congress. But I’m just not sure the Article V self-defense rationale gets Ilya all the way to a full-scale war on ISIS. 2) On a historical note, Ilya takes issue with my characterization of the legal rationale for Article V as allowing the...14 Sep Putin & Assad: 1; Obama: 0; Syrian People: -1
Syria by November, Mr. Kerry said, speaking at a news conference with the Russian Foreign Minister, Sergey V. Lavrov. Under the agreement, Syria must submit a “comprehensive listing” of its chemical weapons stockpiles within a week. American and Russian officials also reached a consensus on the size of Syria’s stockpile, an essential prerequisite to any international plan to control and dismantle the weapons. “If fully implemented,” Mr. Kerry said, “this framework can provide greater protection and security to the world.” If President Bashar al-Assad of Syria fails to comply with...04 Oct Russia-China Double Veto on Syria Resolution
Russian and China issue a dramatic double veto of the US-backed measure directed against Syria; nine Council members voted in favor, and India, Brazil, South Africa, and Lebanon abstained. Welcome to the New Post-Hegemonic World Order? It’s too soon to tell and our Data Set is insufficiently full. Still, it does recall David Rieff’s observation that a multipolar world is more competitive, not more cooperative. I don’t know where this leaves such things as R2P and in particular R2P undertaken without the blessing of the Security Council; I’d be interested...