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Author: An Hertogen

08 Sep

At the start of the US academic year, Peggy welcomed Stephen Walt's recommendation, though not his reasons, that wannabe foreign policy wonks study international law, and Roger Alford posted about James Phillips and John Yoo's analysis of international and comparative law all-stars at the top 16 US law schools. The Republican and Democratic conventions also caught our bloggers' attention. Julian Ku posted about...

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26 Aug

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...

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12 Aug

Upcoming Events The Institute for Global Law and Policy is organizing its 4th Annual Workshop which will bring together 50-100 doctoral, post-doctoral scholars, and junior faculty in Doha, Qatar, from January 4-14, 2013. More information can be found here. Applications to participate should be submitted online by October 15, 2012. The event is intended to be cost-free for all selected participants. The ABA Section...

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11 Aug

It may be summer break in the US, but in Australia the academic year is in full swing with Kevin keeping the spotlight on Libya. First, he linked to his new essay on SSRN, entitled “The International Commission of Inquiry on Libya: A Critical Analysis.” Kevin also posted Saif Gaddafi's unsigned statement about the fairness of his trial in Libya, discussed the OPCD's response...

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04 Aug

This week on Opinio Juris we provided a forum to two guest posters, Gabor Rona and Michael W. Lewis, who continued their earlier conversation on targeted killing over at Lawfare. In his first post, Gabor asked whether the politicians and military leaders in charge of defining the criteria for targetability will take a more liberal attitude because their own risk is zero and argued...

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29 Jul

Call for Papers Transnational Dispute Management's call for papers for a forthcoming (January 2013) special issue on Corruption and Arbitration closes on Tuesday July 31. Melbourne Law School has issued a call for papers for its Fifth Annual Melbourne Doctoral Forum on Legal Theory, taking place in Melbourne on December 6-8, 2012. Abstracts of max. 500 words and biographies of 100 words should be...

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28 Jul

This week on Opinio Juris, we shared what our Readers' Survey taught us about our readers, and we implemented a widely requested new feature: the Opinio Juris Job Board. You can access the Job Board here or via the link on the right-hand sidebar. If the survey has left you wanting to know more about Opinio Juris, check out Chris Borgen's recent TV interview...

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23 Jul

Unless you have just started reading Opinio Juris or have been on a field trip in North Korea, you will have noticed that we recently held our first Readers’ Survey. We are very grateful to all 274 respondents who took the time to complete our questionnaire. Many also entered their name in the sweepstakes for the $100 Amazon voucher. We...

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21 Jul

This week on Opinio Juris, Julian Ku discussed how the announcement by two US Senators of their position against ratification of the UNCLOS, has effectively sunk ratification for this year, and argued that the next administration should seek out bilateral agreements to protect commercial exploitation of the seabed on the high seas. Deborah Pearlstein argued why the US, even if it is not at war...

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09 Jul

Dear Readers, thank you very much to all our readers who have already taken the time to complete our Readers' Survey. The survey closes at midnight on July 12, Pacific time, so we hope that those who haven't had a chance to complete it yet, will do so soon. Your feedback is important to us! At the end of the survey,...

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