Search: Affective Justice: Book Symposium: A Response
24 Jun Linos Book Symposium: Comments by David Zaring
...a long way towards convincing me, but there are some other implications and cavils worth noting: I view this as an (already!) seminal contribution to how comparative law and the transplant process works. But the book has important prescriptions for international law as well, as Linos shows in her conclusion. For one thing, it justifies the efforts to pass global conventions, even nonbinding ones pointing to best practices: endorsements from international organizations can leverage political support for world-bettering policies. Second, where some view international law as rather undemocratic, the story...10 Dec Interview: Martti Koskenniemi on International Law and the Rise of the Far-Right
...the things that my readers already know are true. But above all, I am just writing a history of international law (laughs). Is your new book a response to your oeuvre? Is it a continuation of how you were thinking before? We are the narrators of our lives but not the final authorities on them. Other people narrate our lives differently, and maybe with more insight. I am older than I was with those previous books, and old men write history (all laugh). But the first book was a really...
24 Apr Symposium: The Responsibility to Protect in Libya and Syria–Reflections
[Yasmine Nahlawi is an independent researcher specialising in R2P and its applicability to the Syrian and Libyan conflicts. She holds a PhD in Public International Law from Newcastle University, LLM in International Legal Studies from Newcastle University, and BSc in Political Science from Eastern Michigan University.] I would like to begin my response post by expressing my deepest gratitude to the distinguished reviewers of my book, Shannon Raj Singh, Anjali Manivannan, and Jessica Peake, for bringing in their diverse and insightful perspectives while reviewing ‘The Responsibility to Protect in Libya...
01 Jun The Importance of IHL Dissemination and Domestic War Crimes Prosecutions in Ensuring Respect for International Humanitarian Law
[Karolina Aksamitowska is a Swansea University Research Excellence Scholar at the Hillary Rodham Clinton School of Law, Swansea University, Wales, UK.] The book that is the focus of this symposium, Ensuring Respect for International Humanitarian Law, is an important contribution to international law and practice. Generating respect for international humanitarian law (IHL) is one of the most difficult challenges faced by humanitarian actors nowadays and the book edited by Eve Massingham and Annabel McConnachie constitutes essential reading for academics and practitioners wishing to understand the many different aspects of the...20 Oct Kim Priemel, “The Betrayal: The Nuremberg Trials and German Divergence”
as well as most legal scholars. The book also does something almost unprecedented: tell the story of the IMT and NMTs together, which is necessary for understanding both. The book’s only competitor in that regard is Telford Taylor’s wonderful book The Anatomy of the Nuremberg Trials: A Personal Memoir — but Taylor’s book is, as the title indicates, a memoir, not an “objective” legal history. Anyone interested in Nuremberg, international criminal law, or transitional justice will want to pick up a copy of The Betrayal. To appropriate Larry Solum: read...
14 Nov Symposium on Erin Pobjie’s Prohibited Force: Use of Force as Family Resemblances – A Cautionary Take
...commentary. However, Erin Pobjie notes, cases at the “lower end of the intensity spectrum” present serious difficulties insofar state authorities are usually reluctant to position themselves where both the facts and the law are deeply uncertain. (In turn, most institutional and academic efforts have been concerned with the notion of an armed attack, a subset of all the violations of the prohibition to use force, given its momentous implications, most notably the fact that it unlocks an armed response in self-defense.) The book thereby develops a framework to better account...17 May Book Discussion “Outsourcing War and Peace”: Intelligence Contracting and the Ballad of Dewey Clarridge
This is the third day in our discussion of Professor Dickinson’s book Outsourcing War and Peace: Preserving Public Values in a World of Privatized Foreign Affairs. Links to the related posts can be found below. Following-up on my earlier post on the difficulty of changing contracting practices by executive agencies, I thought I’d highlight a few quotes from a January 2011 NY Times article about Dewey Clarridge. Clarridge has had a long and storied career in and out of the CIA. He (proudly) claims responsibility for having the idea to...25 Jul War and Peace in Israel
...Contemporary Jerusalem. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1991. *Rose, John. The Myths of Zionism. London: Pluto Press, 2004. *Saad-Ghorayeb, Amal. Hizbu’llah: Politics and Religion. London: Pluto Press, 2002. *Said, Edward W. The Question of Palestine. New York: Vintage Books, 1979. *Said, Edward W. The End of the Peace Process: Oslo and After. New York: Vintage Books, 2001 ed. *Said, Edward W. and Christopher Hitchens, eds. Blaming the Victims: Spurious Scholarship and the Palestinian Question. London: Verso, 1988. *Sayigh, Yezid. Armed Struggle and the Search for State: The Palestinian National Movement,...