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29 Mar Symposium Paper 3: Legislator of Last Resort: The Security Council’s Emerging Role in WMD Proliferation Crises
Abstract The questions asked by the organizers of this symposium on recent challenges facing public international law—whether international law is “too weak to make a difference” or whether its institutions are “invasive to the point of being undemocratic”— and the specific challenges mentioned by way of example (“terrorism, hegemony, illegitimacy”) all converge in the topic of this paper: an inquiry into the proper role of the Security Council in addressing ongoing nuclear, biological, and chemical proliferation crises. Put simply, the challenge of bringing WMD proliferation under control is complicated by...
02 Nov Symposium on the ECCC: Victim Participation at the ECCC – Final Justice for the Victims of the Khmer Rouge?
...symposium reflects on the ECCC’s trials, tribulations, and legacy. In this post, Julie Bernath, Somaly Kum, Boravin Tann assess the ways in which victims have participated in the ECCC’s legal process. [Somaly Kum is a research fellow at the Center for the Study of Humanitarian Law in Cambodia who, since 2010, has worked closely with survivors of the Khmer Rouge regime through outreach programs of the Stanford Center for Human Rights and International Justice (Cambodia program) and ADHOC. Boravin Tann is a researcher and lecturer at the Center for the...05 Mar HILJ Symposium: Constraining Language Through Culture
[Efrat Arbel holds an SJD form Harvard Law School and is a postdoctoral fellow at the University of British Columbia Faculty of Law.] This post is part of the Harvard International Law Journal Volume 54(1) symposium. Other posts from this series can be found in the related posts below. Moria Paz’s article, “The Failed Promise of Language Rights: A Critique of the International Language Rights Regime,” is an important contribution to the literature on language rights. Paz advances a timely and insightful critique of judicial and scholarly treatments of language...09 Apr VJIL Symposium: The Importance of Equity – A Response to Glenn Cohen
[Colleen M. Flood is the Canada Research Chair in Health Law and Policy at the University of Toronto Faculty of Law; Y.Y. Brandon Chen is a doctoral candidate at the University of Toronto.] This post is part of the Virginia Journal of International Law Symposium, Volume 52, Issues 1 and 2. Other posts in this series can be found in the related posts below. In this thought-provoking article, Cohen proposes a six-prong framework to assess whether medical tourism diminishes health care access in destination countries. This kind of theoretical contribution...
01 Nov Symposium on the ECCC: The Healing of Survivors of the Khmer Rouge Tribunal – Reflection and Recommendation From a Cambodian Psychologist
...symposium reflects on the ECCC’s trials, tribulations, and legacy. In this post, psychologist Yim Sotheary considers the ECCC’s contribution to the healing process of survivors. [ Yim Sotheary is a Cambodian psychologist, psychotherapist, and conflict and peace consultant, whose authored works include The Past and the Present – of Forced Marriage Survivors (Cambodian Defenders Project, 2013).] As a mental health professional who supported many participating victims, survivors or ‘civil parties’ at the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia (ECCC), I have seen up close the way that these legal...
26 May Affective Justice Symposium: “Recontextualizing Justice through Affect, History, and Biopolitics”
[Mark Goodale is Professor of Cultural and Social Anthropology and Director of the Laboratory of Cultural and Social Anthropology (LACS) at the University of Lausanne and also Series Editor of Stanford Studies in Human Rights. This is the latest post in our symposium on Kamari Maxine Clarke’s book, Affective Justice: The International Criminal Court and the Pan-Africanist Pushback.] Kamari Maxine Clarke’s superb ethnographic and critical study of the place of the International Criminal Court (ICC) within African history and politics demands a fundamental reevaluation of the meaning of “justice” against...05 Mar HILJ Symposium: International Versus Domestic Law: Supremacy, Surrender, or Co-existence?
This post is part of the Harvard International Law Journal Volume 54(1) symposium. Other posts from this series can be found in the related posts below. Ashley Deeks’ Article, “Consent to the Use of Force and International Law Supremacy,” is a deeply provocative and thoughtful work that makes two very important contributions to international legal scholarship. First, she exposes and explores a latent ambiguity in the role consent plays in the use of force context. Second, and more ambitiously, Deeks proposes invalidating consensual agreements to uses of force (and other...
19 May Pandemic of Hunger Symposium: Reflections on UNSC 2417 – A Preventative Tool, an Accountability Response, or Both?
...following up on the measures laid out in resolution 2417 and additionally emphasising support for early warning systems) and in March 2021 (discussed below). Beyond providing a structure through which the UNSC has addressed conflict and hunger issues, UNSC 2417 has also engaged more widely in normalising the issue of starvation. As noted in GRC’s Introduction to this Symposium, the language of humanitarian access, conflict-induced food insecurity, and associated violations have crept into other resolutions, mandates, and is starting to be given the pre-eminence it demands. For instance, UNSC resolutions...
20 Sep Organizing Rebellion Symposium: Context or Abstract? A Victim-Centric Approach to Understanding Key Elements of Crimes Against Humanity
The latest contribution in our Organizing Rebellion symposium together with Armed Groups and International Law is up now at AGIL, entitled “Context or Abstract? A Victim-Centric Approach to Understanding Key Elements of Crimes Against Humanity” by Adejoké Babington-Ashaye. Have a look here!...
01 Nov Symposium on the ECCC: Extraordinary Experiments in Reparation
...symposium reflects on the ECCC’s trials, tribulations, and legacy. In this post, Christoph Sperfeldt and Rachel Hughes consider the ECCC’s reparations mandate. [ Christoph Sperfeldt is a Senior Lecturer at Macquarie University and the author of ‘Practices of Reparations in International Criminal Justice’ (Cambridge University Press, 2022). Rachel Hughes is a Senior Lecturer at the University of Melbourne, who has previously written for Opinion Juris on the dangers of reclassifying victim information at the ECCC.] When the Supreme Court Chamber of the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia (ECCC)...