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15 Jan Book Discussion with Walter Russell Mead
Opinio Juris is pleased to announced that in cooperation with the Council on Foreign Relations we will be sponsoring a book discussion with Walter Russell Mead about his new book, God and Gold: Britain, America, and the Making of the Modern World. The book discussion will be held the week of February 4, and we wanted to announce it early to give our readers the opportunity to buy the book and participate in the discussion. In addition to Mead’s participation, we will have prominent guests as well as the participation...27 Jun NMT Book Published!
I am delighted to announce the publication of my book “The Nuremberg Military Tribunals and the Origins of International Criminal Law.” The book can be ordered from Oxford University Press here; Amazon should have it (at a whopping $8.78 discount) in the next few days. Here for the last time is the cover: Once again, I want to thank all of the Opinio Juris readers who have given me feedback on draft chapters and/or the layout of the book’s cover. Your contribution to the final product has been immeasurable. And...04 Aug Can the PA Ratify the Rome Statute? (A Response to Eugene)
Hostage Response...All that said, I agree with Eugene’s claim that the Palestinian Authority may not qualify as the government of Palestine — at least without the inclusion of Hamas. You both are obscuring the fact that the Justice Minister who filed the most recent declaration and complaint with the ICC was sworn in on 2 June 2014 as part of the new Unity Government backed by both the PLO and Hamas. Many reliable sources, including Haaretz, USA Today and Al Jazeera, reported that Netanyahu and the Israeli Security Cabinet used...04 Aug Colombia, the ICC — and a Twist!
that the ICC does not need to intervene in Colombia, because its threats to do so have encouraged the Colombian judiciary to increase its efforts to combat impunity, an effect known as “positive complementarity.” Here is the AMICC’s assessment: The Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court, by pressuring Colombia through statements and visits, seems to have boosted Colombia’s historically ineffective justice system. The Colombian Supreme Court is making an unprecedented effort and has had success in bringing to justice those responsible for the worse atrocities against human rights. Although the...
30 Mar Symposium on COVID-19 and International Law: Introduction
of analysis around a given topic area, we are delighted that the symposium is as broad as it is deep. Many of the authors in this symposium question whether international law, or its failure, is complicit in the COVID-19 crisis. Others ask how international law can or should respond to the pandemic. We hope the contributions will help catalyse the conversation beyond the parameters of this symposium. Moreover, we hope that these pieces will form part of a broader constructive response to COVID-19, to alleviate its impact, to prevent similar...
22 Sep Introduction to the Symposium on Protest and Legal Mobilization
...generate strong bodily and symbolic images, rule-of-law protests often struggle to find such resonance. Her reflections connect the symposium to broader debates on legal mobilization, framing protest as both political practice and engagement with constitutional values. Taken together, the symposium show how protest and legal mobilization are deeply intertwined across diverse contexts — from India to South Africa, Ghana to Sweden, the Netherlands to Georgia, and beyond. They reveal protest as a practice shaped by law but also as a force that redefines constitutionalism, human rights, citizenship, and justice, by...29 Mar Opinio Juris On-Line Symposium: Challenges to Public International Law
Several months back, Opinio Juris put out a call for papers for our inaugural on-line symposium to junior scholars. The theme was described as follows: As long as people have been writing about public international law, commentators have suggested that it is a system in crisis or somehow under stress. After a moment of optimism at the end of the Cold War, scholarship has returned to the challenges of international law. Opinio Juris is convening an on-line symposium to carefully consider just what these challenges may be: Terrorism? Hegemony? Illegitimacy?...16 Jun Comparative Constitutional Law: National Security Across the Globe, Conference at Pace
Bridget Crawford of Pace Law School and the Feminist Law Profs blog passes along the following call for papers for an upcoming symposium focused on comparative constitutional approaches to national security: Pace International Law Review 2009-2010 Symposium Call for Submissions Pace International Law Review is planning a symposium entitled Comparative Constitutional Law: National Security Across the Globe to be held in November of 2009. The day-long symposium will feature multiple panelists and guest speakers. The editors of Pace International Law Review invite proposals for articles, essays and book reviews from...
15 Mar Book Symposium: The Legal Legacy of the Special Court for Sierra Leone, by Charles Jalloh
Another great symposium is lined up for this and next week discussing Charles Jalloh’s monograph, The Legal Legacy of the Special Court for Sierra Leone (Cambridge, 2020). From the publisher: This important book considers whether the Special Court for Sierra Leone (SCSL), which was established jointly through an unprecedented bilateral treaty between the United Nations (UN) and Sierra Leone in 2002, has made jurisprudential contributions to the development of the nascent and still unsettled field of international criminal law. A leading authority on the application of international criminal justice in...
29 Mar Book Symposium: Justice in Extreme Cases–Criminal Law Theory Meets International Criminal Law, by Darryl Robinson
We’ve got yet another great symposium coming your way this week, this time featuring a discussion on Darryl Robinson’s latest, Justice in Extreme Cases: Criminal Law Theory Meets International Criminal Law, (Cambridge, 2020). From the publisher: In Justice in Extreme Cases, Darryl Robinson argues that the encounter between criminal law theory and international criminal law (ICL) can be illuminating in two directions: criminal law theory can challenge and improve ICL, and conversely, ICL’s novel puzzles can challenge and improve mainstream criminal law theory. Robinson recommends a ‘coherentist’ method for discussions...