I am delighted to announce the publication of a new AJIL unbound symposium on the Reputation of International Organizations. Responding to Kristina Daugirdas's excellent article in the American Journal of International Law on reputation and the consequences of recent sexual exploitation and abuse problems. Contributors from law and political science assess the effect of new technologies, immunities,...
[Caleb H Wheeler is a lecturer in law at Middlesex University London and his first book, The Right To Be Present At Trial In International Criminal Law was published by Brill in 2018.] French filmmaker Sophie Toscan du Plantier was discovered beaten to death outside her holiday let in the village of Schull, Ireland on 23 December 1996. Suspicion soon fell on Ian Bailey, a man living nearby. Following...
[Lorenzo Gasbarri is a Research Fellow in Public International Law at Bocconi University and Junior Editor of the Oxford Database on the Law of International Organizations.] One of the complex legal issues arising from the Al-Bashir case concerns the international relevance of the conduct of a member state in the context of its international organization: how to qualify the conduct of an ICC...
[Dr. Tamar Megiddo is a Research Fellow at the TraffLab Research Project at Tel Aviv University Faculty of Law.] To suggest in 2019 that international law scholarship remains statist may immediately lift some eyebrows. Although international law scholarship had traditionally embraced a state-centric approach, many have assumed that the field has long left statism behind. In my article Methodological Individualism, forthcoming in the Harvard International Law Journal, I...
Our Fifth Annual Emerging Voices Symposium starts later today. It features contributions from doctoral students and early-career academics or practitioners writing about a research project or other international law topic of interest. The Symposium will feature several posts per week and will run for the next few weeks. We hope you’ll join the conversation! ...
Reema Omer is a Legal Adviser for the International Commission of Jurists (ICJ). Last week, the International Court of Justice (ICJ-CIJ) delivered its much-awaited judgment in the Kulbhushan Jadhav case. As expected in a case with India and Pakistan as the contesting parties, nationalist sentiment, – as opposed to a dispassionate assessment of the verdict – motivated much of the reaction...
Rocío Quintero M. is a Legal Adviser with the Latin American Programme of the International Commission of Jurists After more than six years of negotiations, the Colombian government and the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia—People's Army (FARC-EP from its acronym in Spanish) reached a peace agreement in November 2016. Unlike other previous peace negotiations in Colombia, victims’ rights were a major focus of the negotiations. In...
[Raphael Schäfer & Kanad Bagchi are research fellows at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law in Heidelberg Germany. This is part two of a two-part post. Part I can be found here.] On the Question of Remedies Arguably, it is here that the case assumed critical importance not just for jurisprudence of international law as such but also for the parties...
[Raphael Schäfer & Kanad Bagchi are research fellows at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law in Heidelberg Germany. This is the first part of a two-part post.] As the International Court of Justice (ICJ/Court) began to hand down its decision on the Jadhav case, it became almost certain that the ruling will be on predictable...
[Alonso Illueca is a lawyer and adjunct Professor of International Law at Universidad del Istmo] On July 12, 2019, Panama announced its decision to withdraw its flag from any vessel violating “sanctions and international legislation”. This decision resulted in the removal of 59 ships (mostly tankers) from Panama’s shipping fleet due to their link with the Islamic Republic of Iran (“Iran”)...
Paula Baldini Miranda da Cruz is a Lawyer, LLM Adv. Studies in Public International Law at Leiden University (Netherlands). Ph.D. candidate at Leiden University (Netherlands) and Rafael Braga da Silva is a Lawyer, LLM University for Peace and United Nations Interregional Crime and Justice Research Institute (UNICRI) (Italy) and LL.M. Adv. Studies in Public International Law at Leiden University Netherlands). In...
[Lena Riemer just finished a year as a Fox International Fellowship at Yale University and is currently a PhD Candidate at the Free University of Berlin writing on the prohibition of collective expulsion in public international law.] In June 2019, US President Donald Trump announced a migration agreement with Mexico which reportedly provides for “a regional approach to burden-sharing in relation to the...