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[Darryl Robinson is an Associate Professor at Queen’s University Faculty of Law (Canada), specializing in international criminal justice.] I am deeply grateful to each of the scholars who have contributed to this symposium. Together they have produced a wonderful collection of insightful reactions. I also thank Opinio Juris, and in particular Kevin Heller and Jessica Dorsey, for hosting this exchange. Justice in Extreme Cases is about the criminal law theory of international criminal law (ICL). The project grows out of my PhD studies at Leiden University, and was given helpful...

[Sungjoon Cho is currently a Visiting Professor of Law at Northwestern University School of Law. He is also Professor of Law and Norman and Edna Freehling Scholar, Chicago-Kent College of Law.] 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. First of all, I would like to thank Profs. Shaffer, Trachtman and Kelly for their valuable comments my Article, “Beyond Rationality: A Sociological Construction of the World Trade...

...(Max Planck Institute Luxembourg for Procedural Law) , Vera Rusinova (National Research University ‘The Higher School of Economics’, Moscow), Bing Bing Jia (Tsingua University, Beijing). On Opinio Juris, the discussants will be Professors Paul Stephan (University of Virginia), Julian Ku (Hofstra Law School) and Marko Milanovic (University of Nottingham). . We are grateful to all of them for taking part in this discussion.The symposium will open with a post later today on both blogs by Anthea introducing her book. Readers are invited to join the discussion with comments on the...

[Eric Posner is Kirkland & Ellis Professor of Law and Aaron Director Research Scholar at the University of Chicago] This post is part of the Leiden Journal of International Law Vol 25-2 symposium. Other posts in this series can be found in the related posts below. Mario Prost and Alejandra Torres Camprubi’s article begins promisingly, with its criticism of IEL scholars’ “tacit disciplinary mindsets” which see international environmental law against all evidence as a “heroic and transformative project.” But while one would have expected the authors then to launch a...

[William W. Burke-White is Deputy Dean and Professor of Law at University of Pennsylvania Law School.] This post is part of the Harvard International Law Journal Volume 54(1) symposium. Other posts from this series can be found in the related posts below. Natalie Lockwood’s article, “International Vote Buying,” recently published in the Harvard International Law Journal, makes an important contribution to a set of understudied questions around the legality and appropriateness of international vote-buying. Lockwood quickly admits that international law itself says little about the legality of such vote buying...

This week, we are hosting a symposium on Interdisciplinary Perspectives on International Law and International Relations: The State of the Art, edited by Jeff Dunoff and Mark Pollack. Jeff and Mark will introduce the book later today, but here is the abstract: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on International Law and International Relations: The State of the Art brings together the most influential contemporary writers in the fields of international law and international relations to take stock of what we know about the making, interpretation, and enforcement of international law. The contributions to...

[Christian De Vos is a Senior Advocacy Officer with the Open Society Justice Initiative. He engages in advocacy across the Justice Initiative’s areas of work, with a particular focus on international justice and accountability for grave crimes.] It has been a pleasure to read the six reflections shared over the course of this symposium. I am grateful to Opinio Juris for hosting the discussion and to the contributors who have so thoughtfully engaged with the text and whose own scholarship, advocacy, and insights were a source of inspiration for me as...

[I. Glenn Cohen is an Assistant Professor of Law and the Co-Director of the Petrie-Flom Center for Health Law Policy, Biotechnology, and Bioethics at Harvard Law School.] 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. First, I would like to thank Opinio Juris for hosting this discussion on my recent Article in the Virginia Journal of International Law. Medical tourism–the travel of patients from one (the “home”)...

...North, other global South scholars and individuals who are involved in pushing critical theories and approaches have established important online portals in recent years. This includes, but are not limited to, AfronomicsLAW, Third World Approaches to International Law Review (TWAILR), Critical Legal Thinking, Teaching and Researching International Law in Asia (TRILA), and African Network of Constitutional Lawyers (ANCL). Some of these blogs are part of organisational and network activities and are, therefore, involved in organising seminars, conferences, workshops, symposium, webinars and other collaborative works. These blogs have widened the space...

...journals have emerged to explore international law from a range of angles (see, for example, here, here and here). We also observe soaring interest in international legal studies among students. Overall, it is the centring of Iranian interpretations that stands out, many of which cohere with Third World understandings of international law. Here, we refer to “Dialogue Among Civilizations” as proposed by former Iranian president Mohammad Khatami in 2001, as well as Iran’s active participation in Non-Aligned Movement and Asian-African Legal Consultative Organization (AALCO) meetings. Unfortunately, as this symposium seeks...

...symposium reflects on the ECCC’s trials, tribulations, and legacy. In this post, Christoph Sperfeldt and Rachel Hughes consider the ECCC’s reparations mandate. [ Christoph Sperfeldt is a Senior Lecturer at Macquarie University and the author of ‘Practices of Reparations in International Criminal Justice’ (Cambridge University Press, 2022).  Rachel Hughes is a Senior Lecturer at the University of Melbourne, who has previously written for Opinion Juris on the dangers of reclassifying victim information at the ECCC.] When the Supreme Court Chamber of the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia (ECCC)...