Search: Affective Justice: Book Symposium: A Response
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...
31 Jan The ICJ Goes Viral: Transparency and Sensationalism in South Africa v. Israel
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 –...01 May John Yoo and the Justice Case — Post at Balkinization
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...04 Apr Justice Ginsburg and Secretary of State Rice at the ASIL; More on Citation to Foreign Sources by U.S. Courts
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...
01 Oct Symposium on Harold Hongju Koh’s New Book
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...05 May Book Symposium: Jus Post Bellum–Mapping the Normative Foundations
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...06 Apr Book Symposium: Interpretation in International Law–What’s In A Game?
...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...