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20 Aug Symposium on Informers Up Close: Weaponizing the Populace
parallels. I thought about it also because what Drumbl and Holá offer in this book is both a deep dive and a sweeping panorama as they note in their introduction to this symposium. This book is a richly researched catalog of informing in Czechoslovakia, and it is an analysis of informing more broadly. It is a critical examination of the treatment of informers after the fall of Communism and a critique of the moral goals and the moral failures of transitional justice processes. It is a study of individual lives...24 Jun Linos Book Symposium: Response to Larry Helfer and David Zaring
[Katerina Linos is an Assistant Professor of Law at Berkeley Law] I am thrilled that Opinio Juris has chosen to host a symposium on The Democratic Foundations of Policy Diffusion, and has lined up an amazing group of international law scholars to comment on different parts of the book. Special thanks to An Hertogen, Roger Alford, and Peggy McGuinness for all of their work in putting together this symposium. Today, I am honored to receive comments from Larry Helfer and David Zaring. Larry Helfer’s work on international legal theory, human...
29 Mar Book Symposium: Justice in Extreme Cases–Criminal Law Theory Meets International Criminal Law, by Darryl Robinson
We’ve got yet another great symposium coming your way this week, this time featuring a discussion on Darryl Robinson’s latest, Justice in Extreme Cases: Criminal Law Theory Meets International Criminal Law, (Cambridge, 2020). From the publisher: In Justice in Extreme Cases, Darryl Robinson argues that the encounter between criminal law theory and international criminal law (ICL) can be illuminating in two directions: criminal law theory can challenge and improve ICL, and conversely, ICL’s novel puzzles can challenge and improve mainstream criminal law theory. Robinson recommends a ‘coherentist’ method for discussions...
08 Apr The Next ICC Prosecutor: A Joint Opinio Juris and Justice in Conflict Symposium
Conflict. We will kick off the joint symposium with posts by Luis Moreno-Ocampo, the first Prosecutor at the ICC, and by David Crane, the first Prosecutor at the Special Court for Sierra Leone. We will then publish a number of posts each day next week, some at Opinio Juris and others at Justice in Conflict. We encourage readers to read the posts at both blogs – and to tell us what you think! Update (20 April 2020): Here is a list with all the posts in the symposium, with links....01 Aug Opinio Juris Symposium: Thoughts in Response to Professors Flaherty and Kent
it. This says nothing about Adams’ power had France attacked the U.S. The Tripoli incident in 1801 is the first clear episode raising the issue, and the book discusses it at some length. (Professor Kent and I have different interpretations of it, but the bottom line is that Jefferson’s cabinet – Madison included – approved an offensive response, Jefferson ordered an offensive response, the navy made an offensive response, and Congress, informed of the navy’s instructions, raised no objection). So in the response-to-attack issue, I don’t mean to devalue post-ratification...
09 Sep Libya and International Justice Symposium
options for justice and accountability are available and which would most appropriately address atrocities of the past and those that continue to be perpetrated? Over the next week, Justice in Conflict (JiC) and Opinio Juris will co-host a symposium that delves into these questions and sheds light on ongoing atrocities and political violence waged in Libya. Contributors will outline why Libya finds itself in the violent political quagmire that it is in today. Options for justice that will explored include the creation of an independent investigative mechanism, additional action by...12 Mar Introduction to Symposium on Transplanting International Courts: The Law and Politics of the Andean Tribunal of Justice
[Karen J. Alter is a Professor of Political Science and Law at Northwestern University and a Permanent Visiting Professor at iCourts. Laurence R. Helfer is the Harry R. Chadwick, Sr. Professor of Law at Duke University, and Permanent Visiting Professor at iCourts.] This Opinio Juris blog engages our findings about the Andean Tribunal of Justice, published in our book Transplanting International Courts: The Law and Politics of the Andean Tribunal of Justice (Oxford University Press, 2017). Our book is a deep exploration of a fairly obscure international court, which is...29 Mar Symposium: Gordon Reply to Drumbl
(or indeed preferable) for international criminal adjudication. In this sense, I could not agree more with Professor Drumbl’s calls for incorporation of indigenous and traditional systems of justice into the international model. I would caution, however, that to the extent the wells of traditional, indigenous justice have been poisoned by a culture of impunity, we should always keep our focus on the due process features mandated by bedrock principles of human rights. In my article, I point out that experts have generally classified justice systems into three separate categories: domestic...
14 Dec Book Symposium: Justice as Message
institutional actions, performative aspects of criminal procedures, and repair of harm. He argues that expressivism is not a classical justification of justice or punishment on its own, but rather a means to understand its aspirations and limitations, to explain how justice is produced and to ground punishment rationales. This book is an invitation to think beyond the confines of the legal discipline, and to engage with the multidisciplinary foundations and possibilities of the international criminal justice project. After Carsten introduces the symposium, we have fantastic posts lined up by Diane...
01 Nov While Pursuing International Justice at the ICC, the US and UK Must Ensure Justice at Home
Amnesty International, for the UK to conduct “an effective and transparent investigation into the allegations made against the UK Special forces in Afghanistan, that delivers justice for victims and holds the perpetrators accountable.” Also, predictably, nothing has happened. These new allegations against the UK Special forces come at a time when there are renewed and invigorated commitments to international justice. Just recently, the call by the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC) for additional funding for the situation in Ukraine was met with an overwhelmingly positive response from Western...