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16 May Symposium on Systemic Racism and Sexism in Legal Academia: The Promise of Victory
...preserving academic freedom, and tackling racial profiling by campus security. They provide such a rich analysis that I didn’t want the essay to end. Upon reflection, it doesn’t; theirs is a call for continued creative and provocative engagement in an ongoing struggle. Most colleagues don’t know that the first course I taught was Feminist Legal Issues. I always felt a natural affinity for gender-based struggles. Class, race, and gender-based oppressions are incestuous, intersecting, multi-secting, and criss-crossing straight through each other. “The most disrespected person in America”, Malcolm X said, “is...
15 Oct The Global Risk in Trump’s AI Action Plan and the Need for Governance
...General Assembly, calling for action to develop “red lines” on AI development before the “window for meaningful intervention closes.” We agree. In this post we examine, first, how Trump’s AI Action Plan radically increases the risk posed by AGI by sparking a nationalistic competition in AI development, and by deliberately undermining domestic and international AI regulation; and second, why and how it is increasingly urgent that we develop global governance structures designed to address the specific risks associated with AGI. The AI Action Plan – National Dominance & Anti-Governance President...
25 Oct Framing Critique, on Celluloid and Paper
...team members are Black.” Moreover, Insider Magazine notes that “only 6.3% of [Oscar] nominations went to Black creatives, while 2.6% went to Latinx people and 1.4% went to Asian people.” As a result, most movies produced in Hollywood have adopted white and Western frames of reference for their storylines and characters. In fact, even when the movies discuss stories involving Black, Indigenous and/or other ethnic minority characters, they tend to fall in the “White Saviour” trope, where a white person is “the great leader who saves blacks from slavery or...
27 Feb The Proposed Amendments to the International Health Regulations: An Analysis
...of health care products for effective distribution to the recipients across States Parties’ (p. 12); ‘develop and maintain a database containing details of the ingredients, components, design, know-how, manufacturing process, or any other information required to facilitate health products required for responding to the potential PHEICs’ (pp. 12-13); ‘establish a repository of cell-lines to accelerate the production of similar biotherapeutics products and vaccines’ (p. 14); ‘develop appropriate regulatory guidelines for the rapid approval of health products of quality’ (p. 14); to (presumably) build institutional capacity to globally coordinate infodemic management,...26 Oct Weekly News Wrap: Monday, October 26, 2015
Your weekly selection of international law and international relations headlines from around the world: Africa At least 55 people have died and almost 100 were wounded after suicide bombings struck two mosques in different cities in northeast Nigeria, officials said. A senior al Shabaab commander and about 20 of his followers have pledged allegiance to Islamic State, the first move of its kind to emerge in the Somali militant group. Cameroonian soldiers drove Boko Haram insurgents back across the country’s northern border into Nigeria on Friday, a day after the...
15 Aug Emerging Voices: Sri Lanka’s Tamils Need Genocide Recognition and Innovative Justice Mechanisms
...by OISL, the first independent, international human rights investigation into the atrocities on the island, may have effectively excused the international community from promoting critical discourse, let alone political recognition, of genocide. Genocide appears in the report’s section on applicable international criminal law, which defines the elements of genocide and outlines Sri Lanka’s legal obligations under the Genocide Convention. It is mentioned only once more when the report recommends the domestic criminalization of genocide. The report is silent on genocide allegations as well as investigations and prosecutions thereof. Its omission...26 Mar International Law and Iran’s Seizure of UK Sailors
Iran’s seizure last week of 15 UK sailors for allegedly crossing into Iranian territorial waters is part of a very complex diplomatic story intertwined with Iraq, Iran’s nuclear program, and longstanding UK-Iranian tensions. But it also raises some international legal questions. For instance, were the UK sailors actually in Iranian waters? The UK sailors had authority from the Iraqi government and a United Nations Security Council Resolution to operate in Iraqi territorial waters to try to stop smuggling. But their authority plainly did not allow them to stray into Iranian...
04 Jan A Response to Mariniello About the Palestine Investigation
...A. Khan KC, concludes first visit to Israel and State of Palestine by an ICC Prosecutor: “We must show that the law is there, on the front lines, and that it is capable of protecting all” – 3 December 2023 Statement of the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court, Karim A.A. Khan KC, on the Situation in the State of Palestine: receipt of a referral from five States Parties – 17 November 2023 Prosecutor’s Op-Ed in The Guardian and various newspapers – 10 November 2023 Press statement from Cairo –...11 Aug Frozen Conflicts Unfreezing
...and described operations in arming the villages and creating defensive perimeters; also in attacking Georgian police and military units and stations, to drive them out of the area. Those guys struck me as very, very, very dangerous – but also completely disciplined as fighters. Out of the front lines, the militia forces on both sides were untrained or at best ill-trained, and fought while drunk and high. David Rieff, who was on that mission, and I walked around the parking lot in Sukhumi where the militia fighters assembled to go...07 Jun Obama’s Historic “Children of Abraham” Speech
...beyond the old system of imperialism, militant nationalism, and the balance of power. I cannot help but see the strong parallels with Obama. He has the genuine ability to speak directly to the people, and appeal to a better future, creating momentum for change that cannot be ignored by the stale leadership of the Middle East. Here is my outline of the seven key issues he discussed, together with the applause lines (averaging one per minute): Violent Extremism: We’re not at war with Islam, we are at war with extremists....