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Author: An Hertogen

26 Oct

This week on Opinio Juris, Ken contributed a post on legally distinct corporate entities and agency theory in Bauman v Daimler AG, Chris wrote about Russia's Realpolitik towards former USSR members that are seeking closer contact with the EU, and Deborah wrote about due process in targeting. Julian noticed how Russia had taken a leaf out of China's book by walking out of an...

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21 Oct

This week, we are pleased to host a symposium on The Electronic Silk Road (Yale University Press) by Anupam Chander (UC Davis). The publisher's description is: On the ancient Silk Road, treasure-laden caravans made their arduous way through deserts and mountain passes, establishing trade between Asia and the civilizations of Europe and the Mediterranean. Today’s electronic Silk Roads ferry information across continents,...

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20 Oct

Calls for Papers The Journal of World Investment and Trade (JWIT) is under new editorial responsibility starting with the first issue of 2014. It operates as a double-blind peer-reviewed journal and focuses on the law relating to foreign investment relations in a broad sense, including the law of investment treaties, investor-State dispute settlement, domestic law relating to foreign investment, and relevant...

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19 Oct

This week on Opinio Juris, Tomer Broude completed his trilogy on behavioral international law. Also continuing from last week was Carsten Stahn's rejoinder to Harold Koh on intervention and the use of force, and Jens Iverson's guest post highlighting the underlying commitments of Professors Stahn and Koh. We also published guests posts by Faiza Patel on the OPCW and by Adam Steinman on this week's SCOTUS oral...

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06 Oct

Events The Centre for Asian Legal Studies at the Faculty of Law, National University of Singapore, will be hosting the conference — Trials for International Crimes in Asia — on October 17-18, 2013. This will examine the legal issues arising from the tribunals convened in Asia to deal with crimes of international import - namely, aggression, war crimes, genocide, and crimes...

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05 Oct

This week on Opinio Juris, we organized a book symposium on Investment Law in International Law: Integrationist Perspectives, edited by Dr Freya Baetens. If you enjoyed the symposium, don't miss CUP's offer of a 20% discount for our readers. More details are here. Freya introduced the goals of the book, followed by comments by Laurence Boisson de Chazournes. On Tuesday, Nicolas Hachez and Jan Wouters...

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30 Sep

This week we are hosting a symposium on Investment Law Within International Law: Integrationist Perspectives, a brand new volume edited by Dr. Freya Baetens (Leiden - Law) and published by Cambridge University Press. Here is the abstract: Developments within various sub-fields of international law influence international investment law, but changes in investment law also have an impact on the evolution of other fields within international law. With...

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28 Sep

This week on Opinio Juris, Kevin welcomed Just Security to the blogosphere, but regretted the absence of a comments section.  Not one to be easily stopped, he went for inter-blog commentary instead with his response to Ryan Goodman's post on whether or not the US is at war with al-Qaeda. He also criticized the Special Court for Sierra Leone’s Appeals Chamber for its incoherent — and selective —...

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22 Sep

The Honourable Justice Dalveer Bhandari – one of India’s most distinguished jurists – will visit York University’s Osgoode Hall Law School from September 22 to 26. RSVP to events can be found here and here. The Vermont Journal of Environmental Law ("VJEL") at Vermont Law School is pleased to invite you to attend the 2013 Symposium entitled "Rising Temps and Emerging Threats: The Intersection of Climate Change...

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16 Sep

This week, we are hosting a symposium on Interdisciplinary Perspectives on International Law and International Relations: The State of the Art, edited by Jeff Dunoff and Mark Pollack. Jeff and Mark will introduce the book later today, but here is the abstract: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on International Law and International Relations: The State of the Art brings together the most influential contemporary writers in the...

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14 Sep

This week on Opinio Juris, we continued the discussion on Syria. Geoff Corn started the week by examining President Obama's options if Congress were not to enact an AUMF, a question that also occupied Peter who yearned for the good old days of unilateral presidential authority to initiated use of force. When the surprise Russian proposal to put Syria's chemical weapons under international control put the Congressional vote on hold, Kevin was not convinced that this twist had anything to do with the "credible threat" of a US unilateral strike. Chris asked to what extent the OPCW could be involved in the practical implementation of the proposal. Chris' post also pointed out how Russia has been more adept than the US at using international law rhetoric, a point he followed up on in a post comparing the international legal rhetoric in Obama's speech with that in Putin's NYTimes op-ed. The possible legal basis for action continued to fascinate us. Kevin wondered what motivated President Obama's new theory of customary international law, in which the percentage of the world's population that lives within the territory of a party to a treaty would determine whether the treaty gives rise to custom. Julian linked to a forthcoming article by Andrew Carswell on the possibility of General Assembly action based on the Uniting for Peace resolution. Following a comment by the White House Counsel that a strike would not be prohibited under international law, Julian wanted to know more about the theory on which the White House thinks a strike would be legal under international law. Make sure you catch the comment by Charlie Savage who interviewed Ms Ruemmler. Despite all these posts on Syria, we are not quite rebranding to Opinio Syriae just yet!
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12 Sep

Vladimir Putin felt compelled to talk directly to the American people about Syria. The diplomacy at the UN and in Geneva meanwhile continues. A new UN report by the Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the Syrian Arab Republic shows that both sides in the Syrian conflict have committed war crimes. Indonesia will not go along with a plan by Australia's Prime...

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