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24 Jun Upcoming Events: June 24, 2012
...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. Transnational Dispute Management has issued a call for papers for a forthcoming (January 2013) special issue on Corruption and Arbitration. The deadline for submission is July 31, 2012. 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. ASIL’s Lieber...25 Jul Russia and the DNC Hack: What Future for a Duty of Non-Intervention?
...the most famous examples). As such, it’s difficult to say at present what relationship a State must have with nonstate hackers or hacktivists to bear responsibility for what they do. That may not be a bad thing overall, as one can imagine how a clear line might incentive States to proliferate behavior just short of crossing the line in lieu of being chilled from acting generally if the whole area is cast as a truly grey zone. That said, the ability to debate what international law requires in terms of...
08 Jun Conflict-Related Sexual Violence Symposium: UNODC’s Efforts to Address Challenges to Combat Trafficking in Persons, Especially for Sexual Exploitation
...UN Protocol’s definition has three core elements; act, means, and purpose of exploitation. While the term ‘trafficking’ evokes the image of border-crossing, the Protocol does not require any movement at all – indeed evidence to date suggests that internal trafficking is on the rise. The Protocol includes both ‘hard’ and ‘soft’ means of exploitation – from force or threat of force and abduction, such as seen with ISIS, to fraud, deception and abuse of a position of vulnerability. We know that emotional abuse and the humiliation of victims are two...23 Jul Symposium on Mann, Humanity at Sea
...to reach Florida, Middle Eastern migrants and refugees bound to Australia, and Syrian refugees currently crossing the Mediterranean, and then legal responses by states and international organizations to these movements. Through its account of maritime migration, the book proposes a theory of human rights modelled around an encounter between individuals in which one of the parties is at great risk. It weaves together primary sources, insights from the work of twentieth-century thinkers such as Hannah Arendt and Emmanuel Levinas, and other legal materials to form a rich account of an...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...
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...
26 Aug Rohingya Symposium: From Rhetoric to Justice–Ensuring a Gender Perspective in Accountability Proceedings for the Rohingya Genocide
[Akila Radhakrishnan (@akilaGJC) is the President of the Global Justice Center, where she directs GJC’s work to establish legal precedents protecting human rights and ensuring gender equality.] This August marks not only the 3rd anniversary of the start of the Rohingya genocide, but also the 6th anniversary of the start of the Yazidi genocide. Beyond starting in the same month, these two genocides share some key features, not the least of which is that both were conducted along highly gendered lines. In the two we see some similar patterns in...
06 Dec Symposium in Remembrance of Judge Antônio Augusto Cançado Trindade: A Formalist’s Defense of Judge Antonio Cançado Trindade
...opportunity to explore the intent behind the judge’s flexibility when it came to law as a method. Thinking of Cançado, I am reminded of Oswald Spengler who wrote in The Hour of Decision something along the lines of “in hatred there is a silent acknowledgment of the opponent”. While in adamant dissent with most of his views, I would not see my opinions towards the Brazilian jurist as ‘hateful’. I believe the term “collegial opposition” would be more suitable (to the extent that one can disagree with such an authoritative...20 Sep Adult Conversation on the Emergency Constitution
...their resolution are ultimately more about politics than law (in the current episode, low politics rather than high, lacking the attributes of “adult conversation” — Levinson’s term — that has accompanied historical analogues). Kevin offers up the survival rule as the more analytic measure of extra-constitutional action; Paulsen works from the same sort of premise, though on a much less exacting basis, drawing straight lines between the Emancipation Proclamation and the Bush Administration’s terrorist detention policies by way of legitimizing the latter. The exchange between Paulsen on the one hand...