Search: Affective Justice: Book Symposium: A Response
24 Oct Philippines Supreme Court Threatens Law Faculty With Contempt After Allegations of Judicial Plagiarism
Justice del Castillo had committed plagiarism and misuse of plagiarized works, holding that Justice del Castillo’s clerk/court researcher accidentally deleted the attributions, which could not have been detected since “the Microsoft word program does not have a function that raises an alarm when original materials are cut up or pruned.” The full text of the decision can be found here: http://sc.judiciary.gov.ph/jurisprudence/2010/october2010/10-7-17-SC.htm 7. The newest member of the Court, Justice Lourdes Aranal-Sereno, strongly dissented along with (Justice Conchita Carpio-Morales) from the Court’s findings and showed why plagiarism and misrepresentation was committed...08 May Important New Book on the Limits of International Criminal Law
As Mark writes, “[i]nternational criminal justice largely is operationalized through criminal tribunals. Courtrooms have gained ascendancy through adversarial third-party adjudication, conducted in judicialized settings, and premised on a construction of the individual as the central unit of action.” Mark rejects this “liberal-legal” model of international criminal law; in his view –- and this is the central thesis of his book –- “the preference for criminalization has prompted a shortfall with regard to the consideration and deployment of other legal, regulatory, and transformative mechanisms in the quest for justice,” such as...14 Nov Guest Post: Bidding for Justice
...and attempt to outsource the cost of justice, as with Senegal’s claim it would delay the trial of former Chadian President Hissene Habre pending receipt of roughly $38 million for the trial. As unpleasant as those options sound, the alternatives seem even worse. Laudable though the trial was on many levels, Munyaneza clouds more than clarifies the road ahead for international criminal justice. Instead, the way forward requires an uncomfortable discussion on reassessing due process norms and how much justice the international community can afford or impunity it can tolerate....14 Feb RIP Justice Antonin Scalia: The Misunderstood Internationalist
Like many lawyers who study constitutional law, I was saddened when I heard last night of the unexpected death of U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia. The internet being what it is, commentators have already offered their quick takes on Scalia’s substantial and multifaceted jurisprudential legacy (indeed, I think we’ve already moved on to debating his replacement). Most of these analyses have been fair, but I have been a little irritated with the glib and mostly inaccurate descriptions of Justice Scalia’s attitude toward international law. For instance, Rosa Brooks writes...
21 Mar Symposium on Early Career International Law Academia: Introduction
that we and our excellent contributors gained with time and experience. That is how this symposium emerged – it took a village to assemble this “road map for early career scholars” and we are incredibly grateful for everyone who took their time to participate in this project. The breadth and depth of responses evidence both the anxieties but also the generosity, patience, and creativity of the ‘invisible college’. The first half of the symposium, hosted by Opinio Juris, opens with a post by Eliav Lieblich who offers a nuanced yet...
31 Aug Symposium: Saving Critical International Legal Pedagogy from Formalists, Reactionaries, and Pandemics
...of the symposium. For now, I end with a lesson I’ve taken away from this symposium. As each contribution evidences, critical scholars have transformed international legal pedagogy from a site of transmission into one of innovation. Scholars across the Asian and African continents cultivate regional approaches to international law and its pedagogy; Black scholars pursue anti-racist teaching to counteract the prejudices subsumed within the regime; TWAIL scholars expose students to the profusion of critiques the authors of textbooks ignore; and the students of these same scholars mobilise and demand not...
19 Dec The Visible C of the Invisible College: Classism and the International Legal Profession – Symposium Introduction
...with the ideas, problems, and proposals that the symposium brings forth. In so proceeding, its conveners are deeply cognizant of the positions of privilege that they each occupy—gender for one, class for the other, and whiteness for both. In a dialogue that can, and in some of the pieces included here, does, require a strenuous and wearisome amount of vulnerability on the part of its participants, this symposium seeks to walk the line between making meaningful contributions to the discourse surrounding classism in the international legal profession, and merely creating...13 Feb The Death of Treaty Supremacy: An Invisible Constitutional Change–Introduction to Opinio Juris Book Symposium
[David Sloss is a Professor of Law at Santa Clara University.] I want to thank Opinio Juris for hosting a symposium on my new book, published last fall by Oxford University Press. I also want to thank the group of distinguished scholars who have agreed to offer their perspectives on The Death of Treaty Supremacy as part of this symposium. I very much look forward to their contributions. The book’s central claim is that an invisible constitutional revolution occurred in the United States in the early 1950s. From the Founding...07 Feb Introducing the Opinio Juris/ EJIL:Talk! Joint Symposium on Anthea Roberts’ “Is International Law International?”
We are thrilled to announce that over the next few days we will be co-hosting with EJIL:Talk ! a discussion of Anthea Roberts’ new prize-winning book Is Intern ational Law International? (Oxford University Press, 2017). The book has recently been awarded the American Society of International Law’s 2018 Certificate of Merit for “Preeminent Contribution to Creative Scholarship.” As the ASIL Book Awards Committee states: In this book, Professor Roberts takes us along as she chases the title’s question down an international law rabbit-hole to reveal a topsy-turvy world in which...
14 Dec Symposium: Walking the Fine Line between Apology and Utopia: A Reply to Trahan, Helal, and Schabas on A Duty to Prevent Genocide–Due Diligence Obligations among the P5
[Dr. John Heieck is a criminal defense lawyer in the US and an independent researcher of genocide and human rights studies.] I want to reiterate my thanks to Opinio Juris and the International Commission of Jurists for holding this thought-provoking symposium on my new monograph A Duty to Prevent Genocide: Due Diligence Obligations among the P5. I especially want to thank Professors Jennifer Trahan, Mohamed Helal, and William Schabas for their respective critiques of my book. All three scholars present serious commentaries on the challenges facing the operationalization of the...