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23 May

[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...
23.05.19 | |

20 Apr

...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...
20.04.20 | |

16 Feb

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...
16.02.11 | |

25 Aug

...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...
25.08.23 | |

12 Feb

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...
12.02.10 | |

05 Apr

[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...
05.04.13 | |

17 Apr

[Diane Marie Amann is Emily & Ernest Woodruff Chair in International Law and Faculty Co-Director of the Dean Rusk International Law Center at the University of Georgia School of Law.] Opinio Juris and Justice in Conflict deserve much credit for the rich discussion they have generated in anticipation of December’s election of the third Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court. The contributions to this joint symposium have touched upon a variety of issues. Several concerned the relationship of the Prosecutor to other powerful entities, including states parties like Kenya and...
17.04.20 | |

05 May

Greiff has argued measures that are weak in relation to the immensity of their task are more likely to be interpreted as justice initiatives if they help to ground a reasonable perception that their coordinated implementation is a multi-pronged effort to restore or establish anew the force of fundamental norms. Jus post bellum as integrity can recognise these mutually dependent conditions and constitutes a legitimate and coherent non-ideal conception of justice in the aftermath of war and conflict. The second reason relates to the effectiveness of a conception of justice...
05.05.14 | |

12 Sep

The European Union’s migration containment policy is trapping people in detention centres that are being targeted in the Libyan conflict. [Marwa Mohamed is Head of Advocacy and Outreach at Lawyers for Justice in Libya.  LFJL’s #RoutestoJustice programme works to promote the rights of migrants and refugees in Libya and to provide them with access to justice using domestic courts, regional human rights courts and mechanisms and international human rights mechanisms and tribunals. This is the latest post in our symposium with Justice in Conflict on Libya and International Justice. Salah...
12.09.19 | |

18 Feb

I rarely get excited about a new book before I’ve read it — but I’m excited about this one, Mark Lewis’s The Birth of the New Justice: The Internationalization of Crime and Punishment, 1919-1950. Here is OUP’s description: The Birth of the New Justice is a history of the attempts to instate ad hoc and permanent international criminal courts and new international criminal laws from the end of World War I to the beginning of the Cold War. The purpose of these courts was to repress aggressive war, war crimes,...
18.02.14 | |

09 Apr

managing the potential negative consequences of medical tourism. Cohen gives an overview of canonical accounts of global justice and their implications for state responsibility, helpfully demonstrating that different accounts of justice will provide different answers to questions of responsibility. In this way, Cohen’s article makes the case for continued research on theories of global justice and their implications for global health practices like medical tourism. Cohen’s article faces a limitation shared by others conducting research on the impacts of medical tourism, a global health practice that, while not new, has...
09.04.12 | |

07 May

capture what they feel they see going on in the interface of law and practice? As with any book, reading it comes together with other things you are reading and working on when you receive it. For my own part, the timing of the book, has come together with discussions we have been having in the Global Justice Academy, on Global Law, and Global Constitutional Law. Most recently, last Friday we debated the draft text of Neil Walker’s book on ‘Intimations of Global Law’ (forthcoming), where he examines the different...
07.05.14 | |