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17 May Symposium: The Rule of Law: Thick, But Not Too Thick?
[John Tasioulas is Yeoh Professor of Politics, Philosophy and Law at the Dickson Poon School of Law, King’s College London and Visiting Professor of Law, University of Chicago Law School. This is the third post in the Defining the Rule of Law Symposium, based on this article (free access for six months). The first is here and the second, here.] One can, without linguistic impropriety, use the phrase “the rule of law” to denote a number of significant though distinct ideas. Most expansively of all, it can be used to...
09 May New Technologies Symposium: How Law and Autonomy (Should) Interact in War and Peace
[Markus Wagner is Associate Professor of Law at the University of Wollongong. This post is part of our New Technologies and the Law in War and Peace Symposium .] The question of how law relates to technological innovation is far from new. For the most part, law has played catchup to technological developments – both in the civilian and military realm. While digital technologies are not exactly new, we are in the midst of a qualitative leap in how computational decision-making will shape our lives. Whether law merely follows technological...
07 Oct Symposium on Gender Representation: Representation of Women at the International Law Commission
[Priya Pillai is a lawyer and international law specialist. She has worked at the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) headquarters in Geneva, at the United Nations International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY) and with various civil society organizations on implementation of international law.] This is an opportune moment to examine the representation of women (in an inclusive sense) in expert bodies or institutions. The basis for this symposium is the recent report by the Human Rights Council Advisory Committee on the current levels...15 Nov MJIL Symposium: A Response to Darryl Robinson by James Stewart
[James Stewart is an Assistant Professor at the University of British Columbia, Faculty of Law. He is currently undertaking a Global Hauser Fellowship at New York University School of Law.] This post is part of the MJIL 13(1) symposium. Other posts in this series can be found in the related posts below. It is a pleasure to be invited to comment on Professor Darryl Robinson’s excellent new article How Command Responsibility Got So Complicated. His meticulous research has, once again, advanced our understanding considerably. Indeed, this particular article is but...28 Jun YJIL Symposium: Non-Instrumental Public Morals Justification of Trade Restrictions: A Comment on Howse and Langille
[Isabel Feichtner is a professor of law and economics at Goethe Universität Frankfurt] 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. Robert Howse’s and Joanna Langille’s article on the Seal Products Dispute is a truly admirable piece of normative doctrinal scholarship. The authors do not hide their preferences with respect to animal welfare and the protection of seals in particular. Their propositions as to the interpretation of WTO law...
19 Aug Introduction to the Symposium: The Panorama of Informers Up Close
...we are all informers, no?: cellphones in hands, social media as our vehicles, always recording, shearing and exposing, all the while, cancelling and liking, amid the indelibility of the internet. We are delighted that four distinguished scholars and brilliant readers – Sergey Vasiliev, Saira Mohamed, Mia Swart, and Nesam McMillan — have immersed themselves into the panorama of our words. Their thoughts will follow ours, sequentially, in this symposium, and we will conclude it all with our own responses. Photo attribution: “Panorama Mesdag” by Mark A. Drumbl and Barbora Holá...04 Apr HILJ Online Symposium: Hague Peace Conference Courts v. The Universe of International Courts
[Karen J. Alter is a Professor of Political Science and Law at Northwestern University. Alter’s most recent book is The New Terrain of International Law: Courts, Politics, Rights (Princeton University Press, 2014).] This post is part of the HILJ Online Symposium: Volumes 54(2) & 55(1). Other posts in this series can be found in the related posts below. Suzanne Katzenstein’s article is a very welcome systematic investigation of the Hague era and post-Cold War proposals to generate international courts (“ICs”). Katzenstein puts her finger on a serious problem in the...
27 May Futureproofing Human Rights Symposium: Learning from the Nasa Indigenous Justice System to Rethink Accountability
...earlier draft of this blog. Furthermore, we would like to extend our gratitude to all the research participants who generously dedicated their time to provide their insights on the themes of this blog post. An academic article that analyses in depth the themes raised in this blog post is currently in the making. This blog is part of a seven-part symposium which was reviewed and edited by members of the IBOF Futureproofing human rights’ team: Tine Destrooper (Ghent University), Wouter Vandenhole (Antwerp University), Ben Grama (Ghent University), and Marion Sandner (Hasselt University)....04 Apr HILJ Online Symposium: Suzanne Katzenstein Responds to Karen J. Alter
[Suzanne Katzenstein is a Visiting Assistant Professor at the Duke University School of Law.] This post is part of the HILJ Online Symposium: Volumes 54(2) & 55(1). Other posts in this series can be found in the related posts below. Thank you to Opinio Juris and the Harvard Journal of International Law for hosting this exchange and to Karen Alter for her thoughtful comments. My article’s central question is why governments create global international courts or, put more precisely, why some government attempts to create such courts succeed and other...