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21 Jan International Law as Behavior Symposium: An Agenda
...These different bridging mechanisms will be better or worse suited to different international law projects and questions. What the conversation at the November symposium demonstrates though is that figuring out how to relate these projects is something best achieved through active dialogue between the scholars pursuing them. I’m grateful to have been able to start this conversation with the scholars in this book project, all of whom are at the cutting edge using these methodologies and look forward to continuing it with both them and the readers of Opinio Juris....23 Oct Governing Civil Society Symposium at Brooklyn Law School
...forward in a positive account of NGOs in governance. Indeed, in some respects it was quietly the most audacious of the papers at the seminar, because Steve set out the form of an argument for asking how anyone could propose to leave the NGOs out. I will very much look forward to reading the essay when published in the symposium issue. At the broadest and most abstract level, I found that the crucial legitimacy issue was leading, as Weber said that it must, to questions of society and not just...11 Apr VJIL Symposium: Joost Pauwelyn Comments on “Interpretation and Institutional Choice at the WTO”
[Joost Pauwelyn is Professor of International Law at the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies in Geneva, Switzerland.] 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. Thank you to Opinio Juris and the Virginia Journal of International Law for inviting me to participate. This Article, by Greg Shaffer and Joel Trachtman, makes the important point that choices in treaty drafting and judicial interpretation allocate authority. For...11 Apr VJIL Symposium: Gregory Shaffer and Joel Trachtman Answer to Brewster, Howse, and Pauwelyn
[Gregory Shaffer is the Melvin C. Steen Professor of Law at the University of Minnesota Law School. Joel P. Trachtman is the Professor of International Law at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University.] 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. We were delighted to learn that Profs. Brewster, Howse, and Pauwelyn had agreed to comment on our article, Interpretation and Institutional Choice...
22 Mar SCSL Symposium: The Important Contributions of the Special Court for Sierra Leone on Amnesties and Immunities–Reinforcing Foundational Principles of International Criminal Law, Part II
[Leila Nadya Sadat is the James Carr Professor of International Criminal Law and the Director of the Whitney R. Harris World Law Institute at the Washington University School of Law. sadat@wustl.edu. This essay was initially prepared at the request of FIU Law Review for its micro-symposium on The Legal Legacy of the Special Court for Sierra Leone by Charles C. Jalloh (Cambridge, 2020). An edited and footnoted version is forthcoming in Volume 15.1 of the law review in spring 2021.] Head of State immunity: Chapter 8 sets out the legal...
07 Aug Doing Justice to History Symposium: Expressivism and “The Struggle for Historical Justice”
...prosecutors, judges, defence lawyers, witnesses, victims’ legal representatives, civil society members, and representatives of the state and foreign states. Sander points out that there are often more people interested and involved in the construction of the particular narrative about the past than participated in the actual conflict. This book is important for a number of reasons, some of which will no doubt be explored in other posts in this symposium. This work is a valuable contribution to the expressivist literature on international criminal law because if the trials and judgements...13 Dec Transitional Justice and Judicial Activism Symposium: Closing
[Ruti Teitel is the Ernst C Stiefel Professor of Comparative Law, New York Law School and the author of Globalizing Transitional Justice (OUP paper2015).] I have learned a great deal from the thoughtful responses to my article (.pdf) by the participants in this symposium. Dinah PoKempner is correct to say that my article doesn’t address the merits of a “right of accountability” as such but rather looks to how the move to judicialization and application of human rights law interacts with political and other domestic processes of transition. She speculates...27 Sep HILJ Symposium: A Commentary on Ozan Varol’s “The Democratic Coup d’Etat”
[Brad Roth is Professor of Political Science & Law at Wayne State University.] This post is part of the Harvard International Law Journal Volume 53(2) symposium. Other posts in this series can be found in the related posts below. Ozan Varol’s article, “The Democratic Coup d’Etat,” performs a crucial service in reorienting assessments of extra-constitutional changes in government so as to emphasize substance over form. He refutes the commonplace idea – most recently championed by Richard Albert – that coups are inherently and inevitably undemocratic and illegitimate, “Democratic Revolutions,” forthcoming...
07 May New Technologies Symposium: Five Potential Drivers of the Relationship between LOAC and Technology Over the Next Twenty Years
[Rob McLaughlin is a Professor of Military Security Law and Director of the Australian Centre for the Study of Armed Conflict and Society at UNSW Canberra.This post is part of our New Technologies and the Law in War and Peace Symposium .] As Bill Boothby has observed in New Technologies and the Law in War and Peace, ‘It is…difficult to determine what the future seems likely to look like in terms of further technological evolution and in terms of changes in regulations and other legal and policy provision to address...25 Jul AJIL Symposium: Benvenisti response to Klabbers, McCrudden, Von Bogdandy and Schmalz
...which the trusteeship concept is reflected in state and judicial practice, to understand the deviating judgments (like the Pulp Mills judgment rightly referred to by Klabbers), to contextualize the argument historically and theoretically, and to explore (and suggest responses to) its possible negative aspects. But in order to do all that, a conceptual framing was necessary, which is what the article sought to provide. I thank the editors for hosting the symposium and the commentators for their enlightening remarks and criticisms, and I look forward to many more fruitful exchanges....