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19 Jan International Law as Behavior Symposium: TIME’S UP – Deadlines as Behavior in International Law
[Jean Galbraith is an Assistant Professor at the University of Pennsylvania Law School] One mechanism through which international law regulates the behavior of states and other actors is deadlines. Although little studied, deadlines appear throughout international law, especially in treaty regimes. Drawing on a future book chapter, in this post I describe some of the roles played by deadlines in international law. I also consider what insights research on the use of deadlines in domestic contexts might have for good and bad ways to use deadlines in international law. Uses...08 Dec Symposium on Ruti Teitel’s “Transitional Justice and Judicial Activism: A Right to Accountability?”
This week it is our pleasure to host a symposium on Professor Ruti Teitel’s article Transitional Justice and Judicial Activism: A Right to Accountability? (.pdf). After an initial post by Professor Tetitel, we will have comments by Dinah PoKempner of Human Rights Watch, Professor Cesare Romano of Loyola, and Professor Chandra Sriram of the University of East London. We are looking forward to the discussion!...09 Aug Events and Announcements: 8 August 2021
...August, 2021 on the acceptance of which, full papers shall be submitted by 11:59 PM on 30th November, 2021 (tentatively). All extended abstract submissions must be made through this form by 11:59 PM (Indian Standard Time) on 31st August, 2021. Authors are requested to visit the official website of the Journal for the detailed submission guidelines. In case of any queries, the editorial board can be reached at itlj[at]nliu[dot]ac[dot]in. GoJIL Symposium – “Does the Exception Swallow the Rule?: The Compulsory Settlement of EEZ Fisheries Disputes under Part XV of UNCLOS”: On 26 August, a GoJIL symposium will be held on the...
06 May Symposium: New Technologies and the Law in War and Peace
This week, we are hosting another book symposium on Opinio Juris. This time, we feature a discussion of William Boothby’s new book, New Technologies and the Law in War and Peace, published by Cambridge University Press. In addition to comments from William himself, we have the honor to hear from a list of renowned scholars and practitioners: Kobi Leins, Robert McLaughlin, Melissa de Zwart, Alejandro Chehtman, Rain Liivoja, Markus Wagner, Cassandra Steer, Rasha Abdul Rahim and Opinio Juris’ own Emeritus contributor, Chris Borgen. From the publisher: Policymakers, legislators, scientists, thinkers,...11 Apr VJIL Symposium: Introducing “Interpretation and Institutional Choice at the WTO”
[Gregory Shaffer is the Melvin C. Steen Professor of Law at the University of Minnesota Law School. Joel P. Trachtman is the Professor of International Law at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University.] 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, we would like to thank the Virginia Journal of International Law for inviting us to participate in this online discussion and...
01 Aug Symposium on Ljubljana – The Hague Convention on Mutual Legal Assistance: Critical Reflections – A Giant with Feet of Clay? Victims’ Right to Reparation in the MLA Convention
[Julie Bardèche is a French lawyer and a legal advisor at REDRESS , an NGO that pursues legal claims on behalf of survivors of torture in the UK and around the world to obtain justice and reparation for the violation of their human rights.] The author represented REDRESS at the Diplomatic Conference that led to the adoption of the Ljubljana-The Hague Convention. The right of victims of core international crimes to an effective remedy and to reparation is well-established both in international human rights and humanitarian law. In essence, a...
02 Apr Symposium on Military AI and the Law of Armed Conflict: Front- and Back-End Accountability for Military AI
...for an internationally wrongful act. In response, some have proposed stretching the law of superior/command responsibility to criminalize negligence by commanders, procurers, and others involved in the design and deployment of AI-enabled weapon systems, but this is a misguided and insufficient response. (Misguided because it threatens to further delegitimize international criminal law, insufficient because it would still not address all unintended civilian harms.) When civilians suffer the horrific consequences of armed conflict, they deserve redress. But neither international criminal law nor state responsibility provides any form of remedy when civilian...
06 May New Technologies Symposium: Introduction
[William Boothby is an Adjunct Professor of Law at La Trobe University, Melbourne. This post is part of our New Technologies and the Law in War and Peace Symposium.] That the pace of technological advance has quickened markedly in recent years is well recognised. That the law struggles to keep up is frequently pointed out. Rather than wring one’s hands and blame whose responsibility it is to make the law, it is interesting in a more positive sense to look at the initiatives that are under way or that seem...02 Mar YJIL Online Symposium: “The Laws of War and the ‘Lesser Evil'”
...but maybe IHL has a little hesitancy to give sufficient credibility to those statements of one or the other side of the forces. What about alternative methods like a bullhorn. The suspected Palestinian militant once on notice has any of a number of responses available in either case including trying to hold everyone in the building hostage to raise the civilian cost of the military operation in the form of collateral damage. I am just not convinced that the technique suggested protects civilians in a better way than the rule...