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20 Jul Symposium on Cyber, International Law and Artificial Intelligence in Armed Conflict: Military AI and Common Article 1 – From Accountability to Governance
...AI may assist States in discharging this obligation in several ways, for instance by improving situational awareness, facilitating target identification, supporting collateral damage estimation, enhancing military training and assisting military legal advisers. At the same time, if States choose to rely on AI systems in the conduct of military operations by their organs or agents, they remain under an obligation to ensure that those systems can be employed consistently with IHL. This has several important consequences. First, military personnel cannot reasonably be expected to employ AI consistently with IHL unless...04 Apr NYU JILP Symposium: How Much Weight Should Courts give to Defendants’ Rights in Determining Remedies for Prosecutorial Violations?
[Margaret deGuzman is an Associate Professor of Law Temple University Beasley School of Law.] This post is part of the NYU Journal of International Law and Politics Vol. 45, No. 1 symposium. Other posts in this series can be found in the related posts below. Thanks to Opinio Juris for inviting me to comment on Jenia Turner’s article and to Professor Turner for her excellent and thought-provoking work. Professor Turner’s article tackles an important problem that has plagued the ICC in its early days. When the ICC Trial Chamber ordered...
29 May Futureproofing Human Rights Symposium: Living up to Obligations Through the International Red Cross? A Critique of States’ Attempts to Shift Obligations When Addressing Missing Persons
...‘endorsed by the ICRC’. Therefore, while specifically tasked with reporting their actions in relation to their legal obligations, States often refer to activities that have been undertaken, not by them, but by the International Red Cross movement. In these instances, the states have never formally relegated their obligations to the International Red Cross movement. Even if they had, they would still be under an obligation to monitor and possibly regulate that actor, and make sure to meet their own obligations in the end. In the case of missing persons, one...19 May Symposium: Janelle Diller’s Response to Robert McCorquodale
[Janelle Diller is Paul Martin Sr. Professor of International Affairs and Law at the University of Windsor Faculty of Law (Canada), on leave from the International Labour Organization (ILO). Her views do not necessarily reflect the ILO’s positions.This is the fourth post in the Defining the Rule of Law Symposium, based on this article (free access for six months). The first is here, the second, here, the third here and the fourth here.]] By insisting on clarity in approaching the “rule of law” at the international level. Robert McCorquodale significantly...15 Oct Georgetown Journal of International Law Invites Proposals for Symposium on Global Anti-Corruption
For those of you working on anti-corruption papers, the following symposium might be just the place for you (Deadline November 1, 2009)....09 Apr Yale Journal of International Law, Vol. 34-1: Online Symposium
The Yale Journal of International Law (YJIL) is pleased to continue its partnership with Opinio Juris in this third online symposium. Today, Friday, and Monday we will feature three Articles published by YJIL in Vol. 34-1, which is available for download here. Thank you very much to Peggy McGuinness and the other Opinio Juris bloggers for hosting and joining in this discussion. Today, Pierre-Hugues Verdier (Boston University School of Law) will discuss his Article, Transnational Regulatory Networks and Their Limits. Verdier’s Article serves as a counterpoint to scholars who are...
04 May Symposium on the UNWCC: Introduction
Dr Amina Adanan initiated a conference on the 1943-1948 United Nations War Crimes Commission (UNWCC) involving both her own, Maynooth University School of Law and Criminology, and the Centre for International Studies and Diplomacy in SOAS. The online conference included presentations from scholars in a range of disciplines, including law, history, international relations and political science and was organised by Dr Adanan and SOAS’s Prof. Dan Plesch, and funded by the Royal Irish Academy. This blog symposium on the UNWCC is based on the conference papers from this event. The...
28 May Futureproofing Human Rights Symposium: Human Rights in the Era of Blockchain – A Polycentric Accountability Framework
...responsibility, actors like NGOs, corporations, and international organizations also play crucial roles. Yet key functions such as standard-setting and decision-making still follow a predominantly top-down logic, driven by states and international judicial or quasi-judicial bodies. This creates a system where decentralized participation coexists with hierarchical authority . There are several new developments of blockchain infrastructures that illustrate the relation between human rights accountability and blockchain nature. For instance, projects like the UN World Food Programme’s Building Blocks sought to enhance refugee aid distribution, while digital identity initiatives attempted to provide...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...