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22 Mar

[Leila Nadya Sadat is the James Carr Professor of International Criminal Law and the Director of the Whitney R. Harris World Law Institute at the Washington University School of Law. sadat@wustl.edu. This essay was initially prepared at the request of FIU Law Review for its micro-symposium on The Legal Legacy of the Special Court for Sierra Leone by Charles C. Jalloh (Cambridge, 2020). An edited and footnoted version is forthcoming in Volume 15.1 of the law review in spring 2021.] Head of State immunity: Chapter 8 sets out the legal...
22.03.21 | |

07 May

[Rob McLaughlin is a Professor of Military Security Law and Director of the Australian Centre for the Study of Armed Conflict and Society at UNSW Canberra.This post is part of our New Technologies and the Law in War and Peace Symposium .] As Bill Boothby has observed in New Technologies and the Law in War and Peace, ‘It is…difficult to determine what the future seems likely to look like in terms of further technological evolution and in terms of changes in regulations and other legal and policy provision to address...
07.05.19 | |

15 Apr

[Beth Van Schaack is the Leah Kaplan Visiting Professor in Human Rights at the Law School and a Visiting Scholar at the Center for International Security & Cooperation at Stanford University. Please don’t miss Patryk I. Labuda’s symposium post at Justice in Conflict.] The relationship between the United States and the ICC has been characterized by change more than continuity. Over the years, and across U.S. presidential administrations, these interactions have vacillated between a wary arms-length posture to constructive support and cooperation to overt hostility (see the ABA’s timeline here)....
15.04.20 | |

27 Mar

John Yoo and I will be discussing our new book, Taming Globalization, tomorrow night, Wednesday, March 28, 2012 from 6-8 p.m., at the The New York Athletic Club, 180 Central Park South New York, New York in an event hosted by the Federalist Society. Anyone who is interested is welcome to attend! For those of you on Long Island (and I know there must be at least a couple out there) we are holding a similar event at Hofstra Law School, Room 308 on Thursday, March 29 from 6-8 p.m....
27.03.12 | |

14 Jan

Over the coming ten days, we are proudly kicking off the new year with our first book symposium of 2019 on Kubo Mačák‘s new book, Internationalized Armed Conflicts in International Law, published by Oxford University Press. In addition to comments from Kubo himself, we have the honor to hear from this list of renowned scholars and practitioners: Laurie Blank, Bill Boothby, Susan Breau, Katharine Fortin, Elvina Pothelet, Anne Quintin, Tamas Hoffmann and our own Priya Pillai and Alonso Gurmendi Dunkelberg. From the publisher: This book provides the first comprehensive analysis...
14.01.19 | |

01 Jan

...International Law and Politics, and the Harvard International Law Journal. We had book discussions on Anupam Chander’s book The Electonic Silk Road, Freya Baetens’ edited volume on investment law within international law, Jeffrey Dunoff’s and Mark Pollack’s edited volume on international law and international relations theory, Katerina Linos’s book The Democratic Foundations of Policy Diffusion: How Health, Family and Employment Laws Spread Across Countries , Eric Posner and Alan Sykes’s book The Economic Foundations of International Law, and Curtis Bradley’s book International Law in the U.S. Legal System. We also...
01.01.14 | |

08 May

Next week we’ll be hosting a discussion of our own Peter Spiro’s Beyond Citizenship: American Identity After Globalization (Oxford University Press). As readers of this blog know, Peter has many wonderful insights into the way that citizenship and national identity interact in a globalizing environment. (His latest post on Pamela Anderson is just the latest lighthearted example of his much larger project). The book uses citizenship practice as a lens on national identity, with discussions of birthright citizenship, naturalization, and plural citizenship, as well as of citizenship’s place in defining...
08.05.08 | |

06 Jul

[Daniel Halberstam, Eric Stein Collegiate Professor of Law and Director, European Legal Studies Program, University of Michigan Law School. External Professor, College of Europe, Bruges] This post is part of the Leiden Journal of International Law Vol 25-2 symposium. Other posts in this series can be found in the related posts below. Nico Krisch’s justly award-winning book thoughtfully elaborates on an approach to global governance that he sometimes calls “radical pluralism.” His basic point is that politics, not law governs the relationship among the different legal systems and regimes. Beyond...
06.07.12 | |

02 Dec

...ECtHR caselaw in the area of extraterritoriality that Marko exposes in his book serves as a reminder of the delicate balance that any rights adjudicator must strike between adherence and respect for its rulings and the institutional bounds set out for it by the treaty states. While the delegations problems are not unique to international human rights institutions, they raise different concerns and dangers than do other international judicial delegations. The experience of the U.S. Supreme Court on the extraterritoriality of American constitutional rights (see Kal Raustiala’s fine book, discussed...
02.12.11 | |

16 Sep

[Richard H. Steinberg is Professor of Law at the University of California. Los Angeles; Visiting Professor of International, Comparative & Area Studies at Stanford University; and Director of the Sanela Diana Jenkins Human Rights Project.] I am grateful for Ian Hurd’s thoughtful comment on my book chapter partly because it supports my claim that that everyone borrows from the realist tradition. Moreover, Hurd’s comment inadvertently recapitulates a narrow structural realist view of international law (recalling the associated dysfunctional debate of the 1980s) that I intended my chapter to supersede, offering...
16.09.13 | |

16 Sep

...a basis for attacking the feasibility of much of the normative work that espouses changing the status quo in international law. In IL, a field that remains driven largely by normative agendas, realists constantly raise annoying facts and analyses that spoil the party. Finally, realists don’t see nearly as much customary law in the world as most international lawyers who aspire to build a more legalized world order. What’s not to hate? This book chapter argues that realism remains very much alive, not only because international lawyers have kept it...
16.09.13 | |

08 Feb

I’d find it difficult to think of a book more deserving of the ASIL certificate of merit than Anthea Roberts’ Is International Law International? This is especially so because this is a book about international lawyers, rather than about the law as such; it is a foray into a sociology of our profession, examining in particular to what extent that profession is really a common or shared one. The book explores many themes – internationalism v. parochialism, centre/periphery dynamics, the need for more rigorous empiricism rather than casual reliance on...
08.02.18 | |