Looking back at the week that was, Opinio Juris bloggers covered a number of news-related issues. Several provided commentary on the release of the US Senate's Torture Report. Prior to its release, Kevin expressed disbelief at a post by ACLU Director Anthony Romero urging blanket amnesty for those responsible for torture, and as soon as it became available, Jens announced the report's availability and...
Your weekly selection of international law and international relations headlines from around the world: Africa The International Criminal Court has withdrawn charges of crimes against humanity against Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta, a decision met with mixed reaction. Suspected rebels stabbed and hacked to death at least a dozen people in a village in northeastern Democratic Republic of Congo on Saturday, a local government...
Events The Centre of Excellence for International Courts (iCourts) and PluriCourts - Centre for the Study of the Legitimate Roles of the Judiciary in the Global Order is hosting a high-level summer school for PhD students working on international law and with a special interest in interdisciplinary studies of international law and its social and political context. We particularly welcome students and scholars who are writing...
Your weekly selection of international law and international relations headlines from around the world: Africa Gambia's foreign minister said the West African country would sever all dialogue with the European Union and rejected what he said were attempts by the bloc to use its aid budget to force Gambia to revoke a tough new law against homosexuality. A peacekeeping force in Darfur had...
Events The International Bar Association has announced the IBA Annual Conference on International Criminal Law:International Legal Challenges for 2015 taking place 31 January-1 February 2015 at the Peace Palace in The Hague. More information, including registration and the program, can be found here. ALMA and the Radzyner School of Law of the Interdisciplinary Center (IDC) Herzliya would like to invite you to...
This Thanksgiving week saw several posts of note on Opinio Juris. We hosted a Mini-Symposium on the latest article by James G. Stewart, The Turn to Corporate Criminal Liability for International Crimes: Transcending the Alien Tort Statute. First, Samuel Moyn discussed the ambitious past of corporate regulation, to which Stewart responded in hopes that the ideas set forth by both would...
Your weekly selection of international law and international relations headlines from around the world: Africa Caught in a forgotten war between rebels and government forces and beset by bandits who roam the lawless roads, villagers in Darfur say their lives can scarcely get any worse if Sudan insists on international peacekeepers leaving their region. Transitional leaders in Burkina Faso have agreed on a new...
This week we will host a mini-symposium on James G. Stewart's latest article, The Turn to Corporate Criminal Liability for International Crimes: Transcending the Alien Tort Statute. James has been an Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Law at Allard Hall, University of British Columbia, where he as been since 2009. Previously he was an Associate-in-Law at Columbia Law School...
Events italyspractice.info is a website aimed at collecting, categorising and translating into English the practice of the Italian government on issues of international law. Only five months after its appearance, it has registered approximately 7,000 views from all over the world and gathered more than 560 followers. The authors of italyspractice.info firmly believe in this project and their purpose is to...
Over the past week on Opinio Juris, we again enjoyed a lot of different perspectives from our guest bloggers, beginning with Rob Howse, whom Kristen introduced as this week's featured guest blogger. He highlighted the return of neo-conservativism in Washington, reminded us of Alexandre Kojève's being a neglected figure in the history of international law and also discussed the breakthrough at recent WTO talks and...
Your weekly selection of international law and international relations headlines from around the world: Africa The Nigerian army has driven out Boko Haram insurgents from Chibok, the home of over 200 schoolgirls who were abducted by militants of the Islamist group in April, an army spokesman said. Somalia's al Shabaab militants said they fired mortar bombs at the presidential palace in Mogadishu on...
Events ASIL-IEcLIG Co-Chairs, Elizabeth Trujillo (Suffolk University Law School) and Jason Yackee (University of Wisconsin Law School), are happy to announce the upcoming ASIL--International Economic Law Interest Group's Biennial Research conference, on "Reassessing International Economic Law and Development: New Challenges for Law and Policy," taking place on November 13-15, 2014. It is hosted by ASIL Academic Partner University of Denver Sturm College of Law, in collaboration with...
