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19 Sep Organizing Rebellion Symposium: Crimes Against Humanity Committed by Non-State Actors. How Much ‘Organizing’ Do They Require?
The latest contribution in our Organizing Rebellion symposium together with Armed Groups and International Law is up now at AGIL, entitled “Crimes Against Humanity Committed by Non-State Actors. How Much ‘Organizing’ Do They Require?” by Mathias Holvoet. Have a look here!...
31 Aug Critical Pedagogy Symposium: “Thus Saith the Euro-America Validation Cathedral”– The Task of Challenging and Changing the Narrative of Eurocentric International Law in Africa
...demands, online blogs help widen the scope of scholarship, affording students and scholars the opportunity to present their ideas in real time. On account of their wide reach, blogs provide authors with the confidence that their works will be closely read and elicit attention from peers and other interested parties. As research has shown, these blog articles enjoy more readership than journal articles and book chapters. Constructive feedback could also assist the writer in developing the blog article into a full-length paper where traditional modes of scholarship (articles and books)...
20 Sep Organizing Rebellion Symposium: Context or Abstract? A Victim-Centric Approach to Understanding Key Elements of Crimes Against Humanity
The latest contribution in our Organizing Rebellion symposium together with Armed Groups and International Law is up now at AGIL, entitled “Context or Abstract? A Victim-Centric Approach to Understanding Key Elements of Crimes Against Humanity” by Adejoké Babington-Ashaye. Have a look here!...05 Mar HILJ Symposium: International Versus Domestic Law: Supremacy, Surrender, or Co-existence?
This post is part of the Harvard International Law Journal Volume 54(1) symposium. Other posts from this series can be found in the related posts below. Ashley Deeks’ Article, “Consent to the Use of Force and International Law Supremacy,” is a deeply provocative and thoughtful work that makes two very important contributions to international legal scholarship. First, she exposes and explores a latent ambiguity in the role consent plays in the use of force context. Second, and more ambitiously, Deeks proposes invalidating consensual agreements to uses of force (and other...
01 Nov Symposium on the ECCC: The Healing of Survivors of the Khmer Rouge Tribunal – Reflection and Recommendation From a Cambodian Psychologist
...others who may include psychiatrists, medical doctors, religious healers, family members and the community, and includes institutional supports like legal and social support measures if needed. The approach is often to start with small things. And the small things make a big difference. Healing is Important In my experience from the beginning of my engagement with the justice and healing of survivors through ECCC process, I have successfully tried many approaches where people can find those healing approaches through books, documentation and documentaries about judicial and non-judicial reparation projects. One...29 Mar Symposium Paper 3: Legislator of Last Resort: The Security Council’s Emerging Role in WMD Proliferation Crises
Abstract The questions asked by the organizers of this symposium on recent challenges facing public international law—whether international law is “too weak to make a difference” or whether its institutions are “invasive to the point of being undemocratic”— and the specific challenges mentioned by way of example (“terrorism, hegemony, illegitimacy”) all converge in the topic of this paper: an inquiry into the proper role of the Security Council in addressing ongoing nuclear, biological, and chemical proliferation crises. Put simply, the challenge of bringing WMD proliferation under control is complicated by...12 Apr VJIL Symposium: Sungjoon Cho Answers to Kelly, Shaffer, and Trachtman
[Sungjoon Cho is currently a Visiting Professor of Law at Northwestern University School of Law. He is also Professor of Law and Norman and Edna Freehling Scholar, Chicago-Kent College of Law.] This post is part of the Virginia Journal of International Law Symposium, Volume 52, Issues 1 and 2. Other posts in this series can be found in the related posts below. First of all, I would like to thank Profs. Shaffer, Trachtman and Kelly for their valuable comments my Article, “Beyond Rationality: A Sociological Construction of the World Trade...