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13 Aug Symposium on Prosecuting Asia-Pacific Crimes: Universal Jurisdiction Under the Future Crimes Against Humanity Convention
...of Asian states, have been explored by Aakash Chandran in this symposium (and here). UNGA resolution 79/122 of 2024 now sets out a framework for formal negotiations until 2029 (possibly 2030). States had until April this year to submit written comments on the ILC DAs. In June, proposals for amendments by about 65 states, plus the EU, were made public. While this is not the last opportunity, this moment enables a snapshot of where many states stand. Comparatively fewer contributions were submitted by Asia-Pacific states: three each from East Asia, and...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...
14 Sep Transitional Justice Symposium: A Video Tribute to Ruti Teitel from Justice Albie Sachs
This week we are hosting another great online symposium, this time on the 20th anniversary of Ruti Teitel’s seminal book, Transitional Justice, (OUP, 2000). The book’s abstract: At the century’s end, societies all over the world are moving from authoritarian rule to democracy. At any such time of radical change, the question arises: should a society punish its ancien regime or let bygones by bygones? Transitional Justice takes the debate to a new level with an interdisciplinary approach that challenges the very terms of the contemporary debate. Teitel explores the recurring question of how regimes...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...
02 Apr Symposium on Military AI and the Law of Armed Conflict: Front- and Back-End Accountability for Military AI
...history,” in part because it focuses on “DARPA hard” (*cough**mindbogglingly implausible**cough*) research, like growing plants that sense national security threats (Advanced Plant Technologies (APT)), enabling scalable quantum computers (Optimization with Noisy Intermediate-Scale Quantum (ONISQ)), and exploring space-based biomanufacturing methods to convert astronaut waste into useful materials (Biomanufacturing: Survival, Utility, and Reliability beyond Earth (B-SURE)). As relevant to this symposium, DARPA is at the forefront of U.S. military AI research and development. To address AI’s general inability to extrapolate from one scenario to another, the Science of Artificial Intelligence and Learning...25 Mar Book Symposium on “Economic Foundations of International Law” by Eric Posner and Alan Sykes
This week we’re hosting a symposium on Economic Foundations of International Law, the new book by Eric Posner and Alan Sykes. Here is the abstract: The ever-increasing exchange of goods and ideas among nations, as well as cross-border pollution, global warming, and international crime, pose urgent questions for international law. Here, two respected scholars provide an intellectual framework for assessing these pressing legal problems from a rational choice perspective. The approach assumes that states are rational, forward-looking agents which use international law to address the actions of other states that...