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21 Mar Symposium on Early Career International Law Academia: Introduction
that we and our excellent contributors gained with time and experience. That is how this symposium emerged – it took a village to assemble this “road map for early career scholars” and we are incredibly grateful for everyone who took their time to participate in this project. The breadth and depth of responses evidence both the anxieties but also the generosity, patience, and creativity of the ‘invisible college’. The first half of the symposium, hosted by Opinio Juris, opens with a post by Eliav Lieblich who offers a nuanced yet...
20 Jul Symposium on Cyber, International Law and Artificial Intelligence in Armed Conflict: Introduction
...alongside the forthcoming volume – invite a broader question. As AI becomes embedded in the technological environment in which military operations are planned, conducted, and supported, can existing rules be interpreted and applied in ways that preserve their effectiveness, or are new norms needed? While the contributors answer that question in different ways, they share the view that the growing reliance on AI in armed conflict must remain subject to the rule of law at the international level. The Symposium The symposium opens with Marco Roscini’s examination of Common Article...
11 Nov Symposium on Erin Pobjie’s Prohibited Force: The Meaning of ‘Use of Force’ in International Law – Introduction
Tomohiro Mikanagi, focuses on the application of Erin’s theory to the acquisition of territory by force while Andrew Clapham tests the book’s central premise in light of so-called “anomalous cases”. On Thursday, the issue of “anomalous cases” is taken up again by Alejandro Chethman, and James A. Green reflects on Erin’s main proposition – the “Type Theory” approach to the meaning of use of force. The symposium closes on Friday, with Erin’s response. Before closing this introduction and inaugurating the symposium, I wated to acknowledge the fact that, despite our...
31 Aug Symposium: Saving Critical International Legal Pedagogy from Formalists, Reactionaries, and Pandemics
...and in a classroom facilitates. Many readers of this symposium are conversant with these concerns as controversies about the shift to virtual education proliferate. Unions are rightly alarmed. They grieve the workload implications, the colonisation of personal space, and the surreptitious push for stronger involvement of for-profit actors in the tertiary system. Many also deplore the hasty adoption of new pedagogical technologies as we aim to recreate physical classrooms online rather than think through digital pedagogy. Staff and students are guinea pigs in this neo-managerial bonanza. Throughout our symposium, some...
19 Dec The Visible C of the Invisible College: Classism and the International Legal Profession – Symposium Introduction
...with the ideas, problems, and proposals that the symposium brings forth. In so proceeding, its conveners are deeply cognizant of the positions of privilege that they each occupy—gender for one, class for the other, and whiteness for both. In a dialogue that can, and in some of the pieces included here, does, require a strenuous and wearisome amount of vulnerability on the part of its participants, this symposium seeks to walk the line between making meaningful contributions to the discourse surrounding classism in the international legal profession, and merely creating...26 Nov The UK Government’s Position on Unwilling & Unable
and unprecedented threat to international peace and security”, and called upon Member States to take “all necessary measures … to prevent and suppress terrorist acts committed specifically by ISIL… and to eradicate the safe haven they have established over significant parts of Iraq and Syria.” There is a clear legal basis for military action against ISIL in Syria. The legality of UK strikes against ISIL in Syria is founded on the right of self-defence as it is recognised in Article 51 of the UN Charter. The right to self-defence may...19 Sep A Pathway to Accountability for Syria? The Broader Implications of the ICC’s Findings on Jurisdiction over Cross-Border Crimes
civilian whose fundamental rights are breached can – if all other elements are met – be a victim of this type of crime.” Indiscriminate and disproportionate attacks against civilians in Syria, as well as unlawful detentions, restrictions on humanitarian aid, appropriation of property and a range of other crimes and violations of fundamental rights, have led to the flight of Syrians, largely civilians, from their homes. Just this week, the Commission of Inquiry on Syria released a report concluding that “forced displacements” occurred “pursuant to ‘evacuation agreements’ negotiated between warring...02 Apr Does the Libya Precedent Block a Syria Intervention?
on Syria have differed substantially from 1970 and 1973 in their terms. Moreover, from a practical perspective, it is by no means clear that the type of actions taken to protect Libyan civilians would have the same effect in Syria. I don’t know about the practical difference an intervention would make in Syria and Libya. But I notice Koh has elided the (fairly justifiable) complaint by China and Russia that NATO did not exactly stick to “protection of civilians” in its NATO intervention, which suggests they won’t buy that cover...
21 Jul Universal Jurisdiction: Arguments for a More ‘Universal’ Double Criminality Requirement in France
...ruling marks a victory for victims of international crimes, Syrian victims especially, and a validation of France’s promise to fight impunity (see here, here and here). As a precedent, the decision will have implications for the currently pending universal jurisdiction proceedings in France (e.g., Syria, Liberia, China, and Ukraine). In this blogpost, we analyse the double criminality saga before French courts. As the decision of the Court has limited itself to an assessment of (Syrian) national legislation, we further demonstrate that the standard of double criminality can be satisfied when...
16 Sep Organizing Rebellion Symposium: Four Points to Conceptualize Armed Groups under International Law
5. You want to know more? Follow the symposium and read the book! — I am truly honoured and grateful to all experts taking part in this blog symposium. I have read your work when writing the book, engaged with your arguments, and learned from you; you are among the scholars I admire most in your respective disciplines. I look forward to reading your views. I am especially grateful to Katharine & Ezequiel from Armed Groups and International Law, and Jessica from Opinio Juris, for organizing this symposium. Merci beaucoup!...