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a dramatic function: not only that of “doing justice,” but that of “making justice seen” in a larger moral and historically unique sense’.   There are well-extolled virtues to having justice rendered publicly: transparency breeds trust, and a better understanding of the concrete proceedings and experience of justice. Virtually opening the doors of the Peace Palace puts a face on all actors involved, from lawyers to judges, on all sides, de-mystifying international justice and letting it enter the viewer’s reality. In this sense, even the small incidents we have witnessed –...

in the Pre-Trial Chamber’s assessment.  First, as a procedural matter, as mentioned, the Pre-Trial Chamber appears to have engaged in its own de novo review of “the interests of justice,” rather than reviewing submissions of the Prosecutor. Second, the Pre-Trial Chamber’s ruling conflicted with the plain language of the words “the interests of justice,” which sound something like “so that justice is done.”  It seems a perversion of the concept to dismiss an investigation that can lead to judicial proceedings “in the interests of justice.” Third, the Pre-Trial Chamber’s ruling...

its future influence on jurisprudence.So, once again, one must ask, why is that left wing of the Supreme Court willing to risk so much for so little? Is this all the sake for intellectual honesty? That seems to be a little ridiculous. We all are, after all, Supreme Court justices included, shaped by countless influences to be enumerated. To be consistent, should Justice Thomas explain how his status as an African American affects his jurisprudence while Justice O'Connor explains how her experience as a legislator explains her jurisprudence while Justice...

to his inevitable prosecution. I do not know enough about Yoo’s actions to venture a general opinion about their possible criminality. I do know something, however, about the Justice Case -– I am currently writing a book for Oxford University Press on the jurisprudence of that trial and the eleven other trials held in the American zone of occupation between 1946 and 1949, which are collectively known as the Nuremberg Military Tribunals (NMT). So I thought readers might be interested in a detailed look at what the Justice Case says...

article that eventually became this book. The new symposium is much more ambitious and will feature contributions from the following scholars: Susan Biniaz Laurie Blank Daphne Eviatar Shaheed Fatima Jean Galbraith Jenny E. Goldschmidt Sean D. Murphy Stephen Pomper Rita Simieon Rachel Stohl Dire Tladi Beth Van Schaack Mark Wu Sam Zarifi We will post Harold’s introduction tomorrow morning and the first comment tomorrow afternoon. We will then post two comments on the book each weekday until we run out of comments. At the end of the symposium — or...

debate in this Opinio Juris symposium. The book was written as part of a four-year research project on jus post bellum. The concept is steadily gaining ground in emerging scholarship, and we hope the fantastic contributions to this symposium will push that scholarship even further. We are grateful to the contributors to the symposium, to those who post responses, and to the readers. The basic idea of jus post bellum emerged in classical writings (e.g., Alberico Gentili, Francisco Suarez, Immanuel Kant) and has its most traditional and systemic rooting in...

...of Law at the University of Cambridge in 2013. The aim was to provoke fresh insights on a foundational topic. The result is a recently published book with Oxford University Press, Interpretation in International Law. The book is co-edited by Andrea Bianchi, Professor of International Law at the Graduate Institute, Geneva. A symposium of papers dealing with discrete interpretive topics from the conference also featured in the Cambridge Journal of International and Comparative Law. In his preface, James Crawford describes our book as ‘teeter[ing] intriguingly between interpretation in the way...

...mind mainly the situations in ex-Yugoslavia, Afghanistan, and the DRC; by the time I was completing it, I had shifted my focus to Libya, Ukraine, and indeed Syria. But the pattern seemed to hold, albeit to a differing degree and in various manifestations, to all of these conflicts and beyond. The book that is the subject of this symposium is, then, not a book about any of those conflicts individually, and yet it is, in a way, a book about all of them. It explores the internationalization of armed conflicts...

[Aeyal Gross is Professor of Law at the Tel-Aviv University Law School and Visiting Reader in Law at SOAS, University of London. In Fall 2017, he will be a Fernand Braudel Senior Fellow at the European University Institute. This post is the final post of the symposium on Professor Aeyal Gross’s book The Writing on the Wall: Rethinking the International Law of Occupation (CUP, 2017).] Nothing could be more rewarding for authors than to have experts on the topics discussed in their books sharing ideas, concerns, and critiques. I am...

[Hari M. Osofsky is Associate Professor and 2011 Lampert Fesler Research Fellow, University of Minnesota Law School and Associate Director of Law, Geography & Environment, Consortium on Law and Values in Health, Environment & the Life Sciences] This post is part of our symposium on Dean Schiff Berman’s book Global Legal Pluralism. Other posts can be found in Related Posts below. It is an honor and a pleasure to have the opportunity to participate in this conversation about Paul Berman’s exciting new book, “Global Legal Pluralism: A Jurisprudence of Law...

[Steve Charnovitz is Associate Professor of Law at GW Law] Economic Foundations of International Law is an introduction to and reference work on the economic approach to analyzing and understanding international law. The book seeks to summarize and highlight the existing literature and to provide an intellectual framework for future scholarship. In my view, this book succeeds in its purposes. The book is to be commended for its synoptic coverage of the entire spectrum of public international law. While some interesting topics are underemphasized (e.g., constitutional issues of international law),...

[Eliav Lieblich is Associate Professor at Buchmann Faculty of Law, Tel Aviv University.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).] Introduction Living up to its name, Aeyal Gross’s insightful new book engages critically with traditional assumptions of the law of occupation. As in his past work, Gross’s critique here is firmly rooted in traditions of legal realism, critical legal studies (CLS), and – in his constant attacks on binary legal categories –...