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24 Nov We are Witnessing a Genocide Unfolding in Gaza: To Stop it, the ICC Prosecutor Must Apply the Law Without Fear or Favour
...of the Rome statute. The ICC Prosecutor’s mandate according to his office’s policy papers includes not only investigating and prosecuting but also monitoring the situations investigated by his office and performing an early warning function to deter and prevent international crimes. The Prosecutor’s public engagement on the situation in Palestine before October 7th was scarce, as no statements were issued on the situation in Palestine. Recently, the Prosecutor went to Rafah crossing in Egypt and filmed brief remarks, then held a press conference in Cairo without taking any questions from...30 Mar Events and Announcements: 30 March 2021
...submission for the Symposium on ‘Development Aid: Charity, or an Oppressive Tool of Inequality?’ This Symposium invites papers from scholars from the Global South and elsewhere who are interested in critical international law scholarship on development aid, with the ultimate goal of finding reformative solutions that will ensure self-reliance of the Global South. Interested scholars can contribute to the Symposium within the extended deadline of 5 April 2021. The details contributing to the blog can be found here. Events European Court of Human Rights’ Webinar on ‘Border Crossing and the...
20 Jul U.S. and Allied Involvement in the Russo-Ukrainian War: The Belligerent Status of NATO States and Its Implications
...crossing the “red line” of becoming a co-belligerent—a threshold that would “very clearly” be crossed by supplying Ukraine with tanks or aircraft. The Polish prime minister has similarly explained that Warsaw will not unilaterally transfer “offensive weapons” to Ukraine because “[Poland is] not a party to [the Russo-Ukrainian] war.” Legally, the belligerent status of several NATO states is significant because participation in an armed conflict alters a state’s legal relations with enemy belligerents and neutrals. Most importantly, the parties to an armed conflict possess expansive authorities to employ armed force...26 Aug Upcoming Events: August 26, 2012
Calls for Papers The Irish Yearbook of International Law has a call for papers for a special symposium issue regarding Climate Justice in International Law (Word document). Submission deadline is August 31, 2012. The University of Sydney is hosting a post-graduate conference on November 1-2, 2012 entitled Crossing Boundaries (Word document), open to post-grads in the Asia-Pacific region. Deadlines of abstract submission (no more than 250 words) is August 31, 2012 at 5:00 p.m. The Whitney R. Harris World Law Institute at Washington University School of Law is holding The...02 Jan The End of the United States – Coming in 2010
OK, I know the blogosphere has chewed over this article from the Wall Street Journal, and spit it out already, but I still can’t resist posting this WSJ graphic describing a Russian professor’s prediction about the end of the Union sometime in the middle of Obama’s first term (in which case he would be the reverse-Lincoln). I can see disunion in the future, but not quite along the lines here. Utah and Idaho going with California to join China? Alabama and Georgia joining Mexico? Kentucky in the E.U.?...10 Apr LJIL Symposium: Where to Find the Liberal Principles of Criminal Law
...some observers that these deeper principles of criminal law are so embedded in domestic criminal law that domestic systems get them right, while the international law system runs the risk of ignoring them. True, I might have said something along these lines in Reclaiming Fundamental Principles of Criminal Law in the Darfur Case, co-authored with George Fletcher back in 2005. However, one should not overstate the point. We are talking about deeper principles of criminal law – principles that ought to be deep and abstract enough to apply across all...12 Sep From Apology to Bazinga!: International Legal Rhetoric in Obama’s Speech and Putin’s Op-Ed
...the language of international law is used by both leaders. Putin’s argument plays on American fears and worries but it is framed in the rhetoric of international law. There are some scare lines, such as: “A strike would increase violence and unleash a new wave of terrorism.” There is a description of a “reeling” Afghanistan where “no one can say what will happen after international forces withdraw.” And, he adds, don’t forget the divisions in Iraq and Libya. It is not in “America’s long-term interest” to have U.S. military intervention...
17 Oct A Visible College, 2.0: Israel, Hamas, and the International Legal Community
...residents—as lawful self-defence against an armed attack, provided for in Article 51 of the UN Charter and long established as a rule of customary international law. Blogposts have been written, Tweets have been published, and I suspect, a few insults have been exchanged. Debate and disagreement are vital components of any academic discipline. As academics, we customarily position our own work in relation to the fault lines in existing scholarly debate, and we regularly ask our students to familiarise themselves with, and write about, key controversies in the subject area....15 Dec Ban Ki-Moon Sworn in as UN Secretary-General
Here is the text of the speech by new UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon. There are a few good lines from the speech, such as the following: Member States need a dynamic and courageous Secretariat, not one that is passive and risk-averse. The time has come for a new day in relations between the Secretariat and Member States. The dark night of distrust and disrespect has lasted far too long. We can begin by saying what we mean, and meaning what we say. We cannot change everything at once. But we...25 Jul International Law in the U.S. Supreme Court: Introduction
...and the post-war years to the century’s end (1946-2000). Part V examines the leading post-2000 cases in light of historical practice. Although the dividing lines between historical periods are concededly somewhat artificial, the book is deliberately designed to devote substantial attention to the period from the Civil War to the end of World War II, which seems somewhat under-examined by prior scholarship as compared to the Founding era and the modern period. Within the chronological periods, the book further subdivides the Court’s treatment of international law into substantive categories: treaties,...