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10 Oct LJIL Symposium Vol 25-3: Good Deeds of International Defendants: A Comment by Margaret deGuzman
[ Meg deGuzman is Associate Professor of Law, Temple University] This post is part of the Leiden Journal of International Law Vol 25-3 symposium. Other posts in this series can be found in the related posts below. Thanks to the Leiden Journal of International Law and to Opinio Juris for inviting me to contribute to this discussion of Jean Galbraith’s excellent article. Jean has identified an important issue about which the current literature on international sentencing is largely silent. In her characteristically clear and insightful prose, Jean demonstrates that the...
15 Nov Symposium on Erin Pobjie’s Prohibited Force: The Meaning of Article 2(4) of the UN Charter
...under article 103 of the UN Charter. These applications reflect that the potential utility of type theory lies not in providing the one correct answer in every specific instance but in opening dialogue and providing a shared language and framework to elucidate the meaning of prohibited force. This can advance its clarity and strengthen the norm, contributing to diplomatic efforts and the development of international law in new domains. But the prohibition of the use of force carries a symbolic meaning which should not be dimmed by a focus on...10 Oct LJIL Symposium Vol 25-3: Good Deeds of International Defendants: Grace, Goodness, Greed: Saving While Killing
[ Mark A. Drumbl is Class of 1975 Alumni Professor of Law & Director of the Transnational Law Institute, Washington and Lee University School of Law] This post is part of the Leiden Journal of International Law Vol 25-3 symposium. Other posts in this series can be found in the related posts below. International criminal law reclines upon simple binaries: good/evil – for instance – as well as authority/helplessness and perpetrator/victim. Victims, however, can victimize. And, correlatively, perpetrators can both kill and save at the same time. Perpetrators may do...12 Apr VJIL Symposium: Introducing Sungjoon Cho’s “Beyond Rationality: A Sociological Construction of the World Trade Organization” – A Critique of “Interpretation and Institutional Choice at the WTO” by Professors Shaffer and Trachtman
[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. Thank you to Opinio Juris and the Virginia Journal of International Law (VJIL) for putting together this discussion on my recent VJIL Article – “Beyond Rationality: A Sociological...
16 Sep Organizing Rebellion Symposium: Sex and Crime*
The latest contribution in our Organizing Rebellion symposium together with Armed Groups and International Law is up now at AGIL, entitled “Sex and Crime*” by Marco Sassòli. Have a look here!...09 Apr LJIL Symposium: Explaining and Justifying International Courts as Agents and Actors: Comments on von Bogdandy and Venzke’s ‘On the Functions of International Courts’
[Andreas Føllesdal is Professor at Norwegian Centre for Human Rights, University of Oslo] This post is part of our symposium on the latest issue of the Leiden Journal of International Law. Other posts in this series can be found in the related posts below. The expansive growth and influence of international courts, tribunals, and quasi-judicial bodies (ICTs) fuels well deserved interest across disciplines far beyond public international law, including political science and political philosophy. How are we to describe, explain, and assess this partial abdication of sovereignty by the main...