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05 Apr NYU JILP Symposium: New Thoughts about Barayagwiza: Reactions to Policing International Prosecutors
[James G. Stewart is an Assistant Professor at the University of British Columbia. He is also presently a Global Hauser Fellow at New York University 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. In September 2000, I began work for appellate judges at the International Criminal Tribunals for Rwanda (ICTR) and the former Yugoslavia. Soon after arriving, I quickly came upon a decision the...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...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...
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...
26 May Futureproofing Human Rights Symposium: When the Center Cannot Hold – Grey Zones in “The Age” of Accountability
...spaces as well as their communities of origin. Peripheralization of borders –one of borders built-in features– allows states to be selectively present (for instance, through extreme securitization and border controls), while at the same time absent when needed (for instance, when it comes to protecting people in mobility trying to enter these borders). Here, too, voids are filled by private actors, as evidenced by smuggling accounts in the Mediterranean or testimonies from migrants at the Darién Gap, El Petén in Central America and the Mexico–U.S. border, where individuals are even...03 Apr HILJ Online Symposium: The Next Step
[Michael Waterstone is the Associate Dean for Research and Academic Centers and J. Howard Ziemann Fellow and Professor of Law at Loyola Law School Los Angeles.] 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. I am grateful that the Harvard International Law Journal and Opinio Juris have asked me to write a response to The Democratic Life of the Union: Toward Equal Voting Participation for Europeans with Disabilities, written by Janos Fiala-Butora,...28 Jun YJIL Symposium: The Seal Products Dispute and the Boundaries of Trade Law
[Simon Lester is the President of WorldTradeLaw.net and a trade policy analyst at the Cato Institute.] 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. Over the past two decades, there has been an effort by many trade law academics and others to define the boundaries of international trade rules in a way that disciplines trade restrictions, while allowing sufficient policy space for governments to regulate in legitimate ways. Rob...
25 Aug Rohingya Symposium: The Rohingya Cases before International Courts and the Crime of Genocide
[Melanie O’Brien is Senior Lecturer in International Law at the University of Western Australia, and Second Vice-President of the International Association of Genocide Scholars.] As part of the Opinio Juris symposium, “The impact and implications of International law: Myanmar and the Rohingya”, this post looks at the potential impact and implications of the International Court of Justice (ICJ) and International Criminal Court (ICC) cases on the crime of genocide. Is there anything specific about the Rohingya cases in these two courts that may in some way develop the definition of...
23 Aug Symposium on Informers Up Close: Journeys – Engaging with Informers Up Close
...entire project. And now these themes indeed suffuse this symposium in that they resonate through the words of all four commentators Our book bobs and weaves between academic writing and journalistic exposition. Academic hangovers compel us to define and delimit. Halfway through the project, once the empirical research in the archives was complete, and our file-stories drafted, we hit a point of inflection. Should we just stop there? Should we simply publish the file-stories, with modest historical background to situate the reader in Communist Czechoslovakia, and leave the rest unspoken?...21 Oct Book Symposium: The Electronic Silk Road by Anupam Chander
This week, we are pleased to host a symposium on The Electronic Silk Road (Yale University Press) by Anupam Chander (UC Davis). The publisher’s description is: On the ancient Silk Road, treasure-laden caravans made their arduous way through deserts and mountain passes, establishing trade between Asia and the civilizations of Europe and the Mediterranean. Today’s electronic Silk Roads ferry information across continents, enabling individuals and corporations anywhere to provide or receive services without obtaining a visa. But the legal infrastructure for such trade is yet rudimentary and uncertain. If an...