Search: Affective Justice: Book Symposium: A Response
09 Jul Symposium on Art, Aesthetics and International Justice: Honouring the Samians? Aesthetic Strategies of International Legitimacy in Three Athenian Decrees (IG II2 1)
Kantian disinterested judgment and Abhinavagupta’s theory of rasas, Aksenova builds a compelling case for what she terms “international justice 2.0”: a cooperative, experiential, and emotionally resonant model of global justice grounded in shared human faculties. She convincingly argues that an aesthetic process of perception—based upon the universality of affect—can serve as a new basis for legitimacy in international legal institutions, especially amid the fragmentation and pluralism that characterize today’s global order. One of her key insights —that “the ability to perceive (beauty) is truly universal” (pp. 15-16)— opens the possibility...
23 Sep Organizing Rebellion Symposium: Organizing Responses – A (Partial) Reply to the Blog Symposium
posts by a range of great scholars and practitioners, each raising important and though-provoking questions on and criticism of my book Organizing Rebellion. This leaves me with the intimidating task of ‘organizing responses’. While I will not be able to engage with each question or disagreement (and I must admit that I do not necessarily have answers to all issue), I will respond to some points (without suggesting that these are more important than others). In fact, each contributor would deserve a full post in response! Following the structure of...20 Aug Online Symposium: Eric Posner and Adrian Vermeule’s “Terror in the Balance”
Opinio Juris is very pleased to host for the next few days an online symposium on Eric Posner and Adrian Vermeule’s new book, Terror in the Balance recently published by Oxford University Press. The format for this symposium will be familiar to those who followed the symposium we held three weeks ago on Michael Ramsey’s book, The Constitution’s Text in Foreign Affairs. We will begin with a few posts introducing the broad outlines of the book. We will then have comments from experts who will address various aspects of the...
23 May Punishing Atrocities Symposium: Exploring Joint Criminal Enterprise
[Alexander Greenawalt is a Professor of Law at Pace University School of Law. This post is part of our Punishing Atrocities Symposium.] I am honored to provide this commentary on this terrific new book by Jonathan Hafetz. Let me begin by highlighting some of the things that make this publication a valuable contribution to the literature about International Criminal Law (“ICL”). First of all, the book is an extraordinary reference on international criminal tribunals. Someone who knows nothing about the field, will come up to speed very quickly while reading...
07 Aug Complementarity, Catalysts, Compliance Symposium: A Reply
[Christian De Vos is a Senior Advocacy Officer with the Open Society Justice Initiative. He engages in advocacy across the Justice Initiative’s areas of work, with a particular focus on international justice and accountability for grave crimes.] It has been a pleasure to read the six reflections shared over the course of this symposium. I am grateful to Opinio Juris for hosting the discussion and to the contributors who have so thoughtfully engaged with the text and whose own scholarship, advocacy, and insights were a source of inspiration for me as...
20 Apr Symposium: The Responsibility to Protect in Libya and Syria–Introductory Post
...protect’ (R2P) doctrine, and the outcome is my book ‘The Responsibility to Protect in Libya and Syria: Mass Atrocities, Human Protection, and International Law’. I am grateful to Opinio Juris for hosting this symposium on the book and to the reviewers Shannon Raj Singh, Jessica Peake, and Anjali Manivannan for taking the time to offer what I am sure will be insightful and thought-provoking reviews. In my book, I set out to achieve two distinct goals. First, I sought to uncover how much legal traction R2P holds, namely, through dissecting...16 Feb Another Dangerous Lawsuit — This One Involving a Former U.S. President
According to the Jerusalem Post, five purchasers of Jimmy Carter’s new book Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid have filed a $5 million lawsuit in federal court in New York against Carter and Simon & Schuster, the book’s publisher. The lawsuit alleges that the book violates New York consumer-protection laws by claiming to be a work of non-fiction (my emphasis): The five plaintiffs in the suit, readers of the book, want their lawsuit, which seeks compensatory and punitive damages, to be deemed a class action, meaning that the plaintiffs would be seen...12 Feb Criminal Libel for Publishing a Critical Book Review? Seriously?
is impossible to take seriously a journal that only publishes reviews of books its reviewers like. Shilling for a book is the publisher’s responsibility; the responsibility of a book-review editor is to commission a suitable expert to review the book and then to publish that review regardless of whether it is positive or negative. Despite the evident problems with France criminal-libel laws, I have enough faith in the French criminal-justice system to assume that Dr. Calvo-Goller’s complaint will go nowhere. And I know for a fact that Professor Weiler’s reputation...
25 Aug Symposium on The Sentimental Life of International Law: On Lateness, Style and Sentiment
...finished with it. This may be closest to the truth here for me, as engaging with this text (and its intertextualities) has been a sustaining intellectual pleasure. I’ve lingered with it far too long. Part of the task of a well written review, once expects, might be explain to a curious potential reader what they can expect to gain from reading the book. This presents a bit of a challenge in the present instance, not because the book is not a rewarding read, but that it resists certain kinds of...05 Apr NYU JILP Symposium: Response to the Commentary on Policing International Prosecutors
[Jenia Iontcheva Turner is a Professor at SMU Dedman School of Law.] This post is part of the NYU Journal of International Law and Politics Vol. 45, No. 1 symposium. Other posts in this series can be found in the related posts below. Many thanks to Opinio Juris and the NYU Journal of International Law and Politics for hosting the symposium and to Margaret deGuzman, Alex Whiting, Sonja Starr, James Stewart, and Kevin Heller for agreeing to read and comment on my article. I would like to use this opportunity...