Search: Affective Justice: Book Symposium: A Response
11 Apr MLR’s Annual Book Review Issue Released
Michigan Law Review‘s “2008 Survey of Books Related to the Law” is now available on-line. Two OJ’ers have review essays in the issue: yours truly, reviewing Mark Drumbl’s Atrocity, Punishment, and International Law; and Roger, reviewing Ron Krotoszynski’s The First Amendment in Cross-Cultural Perspective: A Comparative Legal Analysis of the Freedom of Speech. The issue also contains a number of essays that will interest international-law types, particularly John Yoo and Roger Delahunty’s review of Erich Maria Remarque’s All Quiet on the Western Front (!); Stephen Reinhardt’s review of Richard Posner’s...16 Mar Cheng Book Roundtable: Should ICJ Judgments Be Effective? (A Reply to Professor Cheng)
[Chester Brown is Associate Professor at the Faculty of Law, University of Sydney] Thanks to Professor Cheng for his thoughtful response. As a follow-up comment, this discussion should not conclude without mention of another hard case, being the International Court of Justice’s advisory opinion in Legality of the Threat or Use of Nuclear Weapons. In its advisory opinion of 8 July 1996, the ICJ (in)famously held that in view of the current state of international law, and of the elements of fact at its disposal, the Court cannot conclude definitively...21 Nov What Makes (International) Law Law? Liam Murphy
[Rob Howse is the Lloyd C. Nelson Professor of International Law at NYU and is guest blogging this week here at Opinio Juris. His first post can be found here; his second, here and his third here.] Today at NYU law we are having a panel discussion, and celebration, of my colleague Liam Murphy’s recent book, What Makes Law Law? (I’ll be racing down from Fordham University, where I’m talking about my own book, Leo Strauss Man of Peace). Liam’s work is important for international legal scholars, because-despite many good...23 Oct Book Symposium The Electronic Silk Road: New Trade Rules for Cross-Border Flows of Information?
...or individuals in (or even outside) their territory (e.g. a country forcing Facebook to hand over certain data or “spying” on data transferred over the internet). Are today’s WTO rules able to reign in these two types of government interventions with the toolbox of either rules on “trade in goods” or “trade in services”? Prof. Chander calls for two broad principles: technological neutrality and dematerialization, both basically stating that governments should, in principle, not make a distinction between trade that happens online (brick & mortar) and trade that happens offline....27 Mar PW Singer’s Wired for War Discussion at CTLab
Complex Terrain Laboratory, where several OJ people sometimes participate, is hosting an online discussion next week on PW Singer’s new book on robotics and war, Wired for War. We have mentioned this book in the past, and OJ has a number of posts on battlefield robotics in the last year or so. Singer is participating in the CTLab symposium and, having read his opening post, it looks to be fascinating. It is a terrific lineup of participants. That said, let me comment on why robotics is important to discussions here...22 Oct Paperback Edition of “The Nuremberg Military Tribunals”
I am delighted to announce that Oxford University Press has just published a paperback edition of my book, The Nuremberg Military Tribunals and the Origins of International Criminal Law. The paperback is priced at a very reasonable £25 — £45 cheaper than the hardback. Here again is the description: This book provides the first comprehensive legal analysis of the twelve war crimes trials held in the American zone of occupation between 1946 and 1949, collectively known as the Nuremberg Military Tribunals (NMTs). The judgments the NMTs produced have played a...10 Jul Worldviews, Grand Strategies, and Bumper-stickers
Thanks to everyone for what has been a very enriching discussion so far. I’d like to respond briefly to the thoughtful comments made by Peggy and Chris concerning what the story of these modern interwar years between 11/9 and 9/11 tells us about how to think about America’s role in the world – and whether that can be summed up in a simple phrase. It is quite right that, as we admitted at the outset, this book is in part an intellectual history of how Washington policymakers, politicians and intellectuals...07 Apr ASIL Book and Article Awards
The American Society of International Law recently awarded its annual certificates and prizes for scholarship in international law. A number of the winners have either been involved in OJ symposia or are friends of the blog, so I want to acknowledge their achievements here: Certificate of Merit in a specialized area of international law: Mark Osiel, “The End of Reciprocity: Terror, Torture, and the Law of War” (Cambridge Univ. Press 2009). Francis Deák Prize: Jacob Katz Cogan, “Representation and Power in International Organization: The Operational Constitution and Its...14 Apr How Law Students Shut Down the First GITMO Prison Camp
greatest of American values: freedom. The book has earned considerable critical acclaim — including being named one of the Top 10 non-fiction books of 2005 by the Kirkus Review — and is being adapted into a movie for Warner Brothers by Michael Seitzman, the screenwriter of last year’s North Country. BBC TV is also doing a major story on the book next week, so check your local listings! The book is available here, and anyone who is interested in getting in touch with Brandt should feel free to e-mail me....