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03 Feb AJIL Symposium this week
This week we’re hosting a symposium on both lead articles in the October 2013 edition of the American Journal of International Law. Today and tomorrow, Kofi Kufuor, Solomon Ebobrah and Horace Adjolohoun discuss “A New International Human Rights Court for West Africa: The ECOWAS Community Court of Justice” by Karen Alter, Larry Helfer and Jacqueline McAllister: The Court of Justice for the Economic Community of West African States has been transformed from an interstate tribunal for resolving disputes over ECOWAS economic rules into a court with far-reaching human rights jurisdiction....08 Sep Protection of Civilians Symposium: Some Thoughts on the Use of Force by UN Peacekeeping Operations to Protect Civilians
[Marten Zwanenburg is legal counsel at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Netherlands. The views expressed herein are his own and do not necessarily reflect the views of the ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Netherlands.This post is a part of the Protection of Civilians Symposium.] In this post, I will focus on Mona’s chapter in “Protection of Civilians”, in which she addresses the issue of the use of force by UN peacekeeping operations for the protection of civilians. Mona’s main point is that the mandate to use force...
25 Apr Symposium on Boyd van Dijk’s Preparing for War: Introduction
Over the coming five days, we are happy to host a book symposium on Boyd van Dijk’s new book, Preparing for War: The Making of the Geneva Conventions, published by Oxford University Press. In addition to comments from van Dijk himself, we have the honor to hear from this list of renowned scholars and practitioners: Eyal Benvenisti, Andrew Clapham, Doreen Lustig, Katharine Fortin, Karin Loevy and Alonso Gurmendi. From the publisher: “The 1949 Geneva Conventions are the most important rules for armed conflict ever formulated. To this day they continue...
01 Nov Third Annual Symposium on Pop Culture and International Law: Judgment at Nuremberg – Capturing the Complexities of Mass Atrocity Trials on Film
...(1980, dir. Bruce Beresford), focus on the pressures faced by soldiers can cause them to commit war crimes as well as the kaleidoscope of perspectives on justice that swirl around warfare; others, like Argentina, 1985 (2022, dir. Santiago Mitre), explore how political and social forces can shape a country’s efforts to hold to its own leaders accountable. For this symposium, I’ve chosen to focus on Judgment at Nuremberg (1961), a film that, despite its age, powerfully highlights many of the nuances and complexities surrounding the trial of mass atrocities. Judgment...03 Oct Book Symposium Investment Law: The International Minimum Standard of Treatment of Aliens and Administration of Domestic Regulation under WTO and Investment Protection Law
[Dr Anastasios Gourgourinis is Lecturer in Public International Law at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens Faculty of Law, and Research Fellow at the Academy of Athens] Let me start by extending a warm thanks to Freya Baetens for her overall care, diligence and patience as the editor of Investment Law within International Law: Integrationist Perspectives, the publication of which is very timely and indeed. I am also grateful to Opinio Juris for hosting this Book Symposium, as well as to Anne van Aaken, who I am privileged to...15 Apr The Federalist Society’s 2012 National Security Symposium
Those of you who, like me, missed this year’s Federalist Society Symposium on National Security can now watch all of the events on-line here. The event was held April 5 in DC and included a morning panel on terrorist-related detentions, interrogations and trials, a lunchtime address by former Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff, and an afternoon panel on potential cybersecurity legislation. Participants included Vincent J. Vitkowsky, Nathan A. Sales, Charles D. Stimson, Stephen I. Vladeck, Benjamin Wittes, Glenn M. Sulmasy, Jamil N. Jaffer, Sharon Bradford Franklin, Matthew J. Eggers, and...09 Aug Events and Announcements: 8 August 2021
...August, 2021 on the acceptance of which, full papers shall be submitted by 11:59 PM on 30th November, 2021 (tentatively). All extended abstract submissions must be made through this form by 11:59 PM (Indian Standard Time) on 31st August, 2021. Authors are requested to visit the official website of the Journal for the detailed submission guidelines. In case of any queries, the editorial board can be reached at itlj[at]nliu[dot]ac[dot]in. GoJIL Symposium – “Does the Exception Swallow the Rule?: The Compulsory Settlement of EEZ Fisheries Disputes under Part XV of UNCLOS”: On 26 August, a GoJIL symposium will be held on the...27 Oct Testing the Limits of International Law: Symposium at Univ. of Georgia, Oct. 28-29
Peter Spiro and Dan Bodansky at the University of Georgia Law School are hosting a symposium this weekend to discuss and critique Jack Goldsmith and Eric Posner’s informative and provocative book, The Limits of International Law. I discussed the book’s central thesis — that international law is merely a reflection of states acting rationally to pursue their interests in relation with other states — in an earlier post. In addition to Goldsmith and Posner, papers are being presented by Philippe Sands (London), David Golove (NYU), Kal Raustiala (UCLA), Andrew Guzman...