Search: Affective Justice: Book Symposium: A Response
01 Oct Book Symposium Investment Law: A reply to Prof. Tullio Treves’ comments
[Nicolas Hachez is a PhD student at the institute for International Law and Leuven Centre for Global Governance Studies and Jan Wouters is Professor of International Law and International Organizations, Jean Monnet Chair Ad Personam EU and Global Governance, and Director of the Leuven Centre for Global Governance Studies and Institute for International Law at the University of Leuven (KU Leuven).] First of all, we would like to thank Prof. Treves for his kind words on our chapter, and for his very interesting ‘think outside the box’ comments....29 Apr Lindseth Replies: Some Closing Thoughts on Power and Legitimacy
driven by a rationalist logic “outside of time,” one without a normative, social, and political history of its own. My book tries to take that history more seriously, seeking to refocus attention on the specifically legal-cultural (indeed, social-psychological) dimension of the process of institutional change. Such a refocusing requires, in the context of integration, an effort to understand how delegation came to be “experienced” as an appropriate foundation for administrative governance, not just in the 1950s but also before and after. But I hasten to add that my book is...23 Sep Oona Hathaway and Scott Shapiro’s New Book “The Internationalists”
I have a review up at the Washington Post. A great read....30 Aug Symposium on Occupation Law: The Necessary Non-Normativity and Temporal Indeterminacy of Occupation Law
[Eugene Kontorovich is a Professor at Northwestern University Pritzker School of Law. This post is part of an ongoing symposium on Professor Aeyal Gross’s book The Writing on the Wall: Rethinking the International Law of Occupation (CUP, 2017).] Prof. Gross’s excellent book The Writing on the Wall: Rethinking the International Law of Occupation presents a normative synthesis of international humanitarian and international human rights law design to provide an occupation law regime acutely focused on protected persons and the ensuring that the temporariness of the occupation. Gross’s honest embrace of...10 Apr Book Symposium: Interpretation — An Exact Art
[Philip Allott is Emeritus Professor of International Public Law at the University of Cambridge.] Interpretation of any text – religious, political, historical, scientific, literary, artistic, legal – raises profound philosophical problems. Interpretation of a legal text is in a class of its own, because it can have direct and substantial social effects, determining people’s lives. The philosophy of legal interpretation is the philosophy of a fundamental aspect of social existence. The philosophical problems of interpretation stem from the fact that interpretation is a re-presentation of a presentation of...06 Jul International Issues and Domestic Criminal Defense: A Guide For Practitioners
One of the ways to heighten student and faculty interest in international, comparative and cross-cultural legal issues is to examine those issues through the lens of traditional domestic topics. Nothing seems more “local” than criminal defense. The newly published Second Edition of “Cultural Issues in Criminal Defense,” edited by Linda Friedman Ramirez, an attorney in Florida, should put that assumption of locality to rest. The book is an off-the-shelf guide for practitioners, which the publisher describes as follows: Cultural Issues in Criminal Defense is an indispensable book for the criminal...06 Mar Exploring the Limits of International Human Rights Law
approach of Limits. First, the book largely ignores the effect of international human rights legal institutions (e.g., ad hoc and permanent courts) on a range of state and individual behavior. Second, by focusing almost exclusively on interstate behavior and international political institutions, Goldsmith and Posner fail to examine the domestic dimension of human rights compliance. Third, by minimizing the role of individuals, NGOs, corporations, and other non-state actors, the book paints a distorted picture of the current processes through which human rights norms are elaborated and enforced. Fourth, the book...