Search: Affective Justice: Book Symposium: A Response
10 Oct LJIL Symposium Vol 25-3: Good Deeds of International Defendants: A Comment by Margaret deGuzman
[ Meg deGuzman is Associate Professor of Law, Temple University] This post is part of the Leiden Journal of International Law Vol 25-3 symposium. Other posts in this series can be found in the related posts below. Thanks to the Leiden Journal of International Law and to Opinio Juris for inviting me to contribute to this discussion of Jean Galbraith’s excellent article. Jean has identified an important issue about which the current literature on international sentencing is largely silent. In her characteristically clear and insightful prose, Jean demonstrates that the...10 Oct LJIL Symposium Vol 25-3: Good Deeds of International Defendants: Grace, Goodness, Greed: Saving While Killing
[ Mark A. Drumbl is Class of 1975 Alumni Professor of Law & Director of the Transnational Law Institute, Washington and Lee University School of Law] This post is part of the Leiden Journal of International Law Vol 25-3 symposium. Other posts in this series can be found in the related posts below. International criminal law reclines upon simple binaries: good/evil – for instance – as well as authority/helplessness and perpetrator/victim. Victims, however, can victimize. And, correlatively, perpetrators can both kill and save at the same time. Perpetrators may do...12 Apr VJIL Symposium: Introducing Sungjoon Cho’s “Beyond Rationality: A Sociological Construction of the World Trade Organization” – A Critique of “Interpretation and Institutional Choice at the WTO” by Professors 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. Thank you to Opinio Juris and the Virginia Journal of International Law (VJIL) for putting together this discussion on my recent VJIL Article – “Beyond Rationality: A Sociological...09 Apr LJIL Symposium: Explaining and Justifying International Courts as Agents and Actors: Comments on von Bogdandy and Venzke’s ‘On the Functions of International Courts’
[Andreas Føllesdal is Professor at Norwegian Centre for Human Rights, University of Oslo] This post is part of our symposium on the latest issue of the Leiden Journal of International Law. Other posts in this series can be found in the related posts below. The expansive growth and influence of international courts, tribunals, and quasi-judicial bodies (ICTs) fuels well deserved interest across disciplines far beyond public international law, including political science and political philosophy. How are we to describe, explain, and assess this partial abdication of sovereignty by the main...
24 Nov Symposium: Open-Source Investigations Labs, Educational Approaches and Societal Impact
toward justice and accountability. In a world where truth and accountability are increasingly under threat, and where dis-and misinformation are on the rise, the need to understand the opportunities and challenges around open-source investigations for global justice has never been stronger. This conference brought together interdisciplinary experts from research and practice in order to explore key questions at the forefront of open-source investigations for global justice. Participants examined how open-source methods can drive meaningful accountability and redress for human rights violations and environmental harm, ensuring investigations lead to impact. Participants...
20 May Symposium: Punishing Atrocities through a Fair Trial: International Criminal Law from Nuremberg to the Age of Global Terrorism
This week, we are hosting another book symposium on Opinio Juris. This time, we feature a discussion of the new book by Jonathan Hafetz, Punishing Atrocities through a Fair Trial: International Criminal Law from Nuremberg to the Age of Global Terrorism, published by Cambridge University Press. In addition to comments from Jonathan himself, we have the honor to hear from a list of renowned scholars and practitioners: Mark Kersten, Gabor Rona, Sasha Greenawalt and Meg de Guzman. From the publisher: Over the past decades, international criminal law has evolved to become the operative...
17 Sep Organizing Rebellion Symposium: Translating the Organization Requirement into the Operational Context
The latest contribution in our Organizing Rebellion symposium together with Armed Groups and International Law is up now at AGIL, entitled “Translating the Organization Requirement into the Operational Context” by Laurie Blank. Have a look here!...09 Apr LJIL Symposium: A Reply to the Comments by Andreas Føllesdal and Ruti Teitel
[Armin von Bogdandy is Director at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law and Ingo Venzke is a Senior Research Fellow and Lecturer at the Amsterdam Center for International Law, University of Amsterdam.] This post is part of our symposium on the latest issue of the Leiden Journal of International Law. Other posts in this series can be found in the related posts below. We are truly grateful to Andreas Føllesdal and Ruti Teitel for their perceptive comments on our article, On the Functions of International...12 Apr VJIL Symposium: Doctor, Heal Thyself – A Commentary on Professor Sungjoon Cho’s Critique of Shaffer and Trachtman
[Claire Kelly is a Professor of Law at Brooklyn Law School.] 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. Thank you very much to Opinio Juris for this opportunity to comment on this set of Articles recently published in the Virginia Journal of International Law. To address rationalism’s failings, Professor Cho prescribes a constructivist or sociological lens in his Article, “Beyond Rationality: A Sociological Construction of the...
27 Jan GCIII Commentary Symposium: “Preparations Have Been Made in Advance”–GCIII and the Obligation to Respect and Ensure Respect by Preparing for Retaining POWS
[ Kelisiana Thynne is a Legal Adviser in the Advisory Services on IHL, Legal Division of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) . This is a post in our joint blog symposium exploring the new ICRC Commentary on the Third Geneva Convention (GCIII Commentary) ]. Respecting the Conventions in case of an armed conflict regularly presupposes that preparations have been made in advance (ICRC 2020 Commentary to GCIII, (all paragraph references in the blog are to this Commentary), para 178) [O]bligations in the Conventions may best be implemented during...