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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...
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...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...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...
12 Sep Libya and International Justice Symposium: The EU is Also Responsible for the Death of Migrants and Refugees in Libya
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...05 May Jus Post Bellum Symposium: Jus Post Bellum–The Value of an Interpretive Conception
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...07 May Jus Post Bellum Symposium: Jus Post Bellum, Lex Pacificatoria, and Transitional Justice
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...03 Jan H-Diplo Roundtable on David Bosco’s “Rough Justice”
H-Diplo, part of H-Net, recently hosted a virtual roundtable on David Bosco’s excellent book Rough Justice:The International Criminal Court in a World of Power Politics, published by Oxford last year. Erik Vroeten introduced the roundtable, and Sam Moyn, David Kaye, and I submitted reviews. David then wrote a response. Here is a snippet from Erik’s introduction: It is my pleasure to introduce the distinguished and diverse set of reviewers of this timely and important book. Samuel Moyn embeds Bosco’s book in a longer history of the tensions between power and...