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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...
11 Nov Symposium on Erin Pobjie’s Prohibited Force: Toward a Higher Level of Analytical Clarity – An Introductory Reflection on Erin Pobjie’s ‘Prohibited Force’
the law, which, perhaps understandably, the ICJ has refrained from providing in his Advisory Opinion in Legal Consequences. The book’s potential ‘to facilitate clearer analysis’ allows for a significant advance in strengthening the international legal order in one of its core components. For this reason alone, Erin Pobjie’s book deserves the closest attention of international lawyers worldwide. Opinio Juris is thus much to be commended to convene this symposium and I greatly look forward to reading the engagements with her book which shall form part of this scholarly conversation. ...23 Sep Book Symposium: Cyber War and the Question of Causation
Thanks to Kevin Govern and Duncan Hollis for providing the two previous posts (here and here) in this book symposium on Cyber War: Law and Ethics for Virtual Conflicts. In my post, I want to explore the difficulties arising from causal investigations in cyber attacks. Everyone knows that the increasing threat of cyber attacks will place immense pressure on the operational capacities for various intelligence and defense agencies. Speak with anyone in military operations (from several countries), and their lists of security concerns are remarkably similar: Russia, ISIS, and cyber...
02 Dec UNSC Veto Power Symposium: Voluntary Veto Restraint Initiatives as Evidence of the Global Community’s Disapproval of the Use of the Veto Power
[Milena Sterio is The Charles R. Emrick Jr. – Calfee Halter & Griswold Professor of Law at the Cleveland-Marshall College of Law and Co-Coordinator for Global Justice Partnerships at the Public International Law and Policy Group.] It is my pleasure to contribute this guest post to the Opinio Juris symposium about Professor Jennifer Trahans’s recent book, Existing Legal Limits to Security Council Veto Power in the Face of Atrocity Crimes. Professor Trahan’s book is a significant contribution to existing literature on the subject of the Security Council and the role...
16 Apr Symposium on Confronting Colonial Objects: A Panopticon of Colonial Cultural Heritage Taking and Return
approach of the book suggests? Unfortunately, those questions are hardly addressed in the book. However, these are not the only historical explorations in the book. In addition, chapter 7 on Colonial and Post-colonial Continuities in Culture Heritage Protection follows mainly a chronological scheme in the discussion of the international normative framework on cultural heritage restitution. The fragmented way to address each aspect on its own is, on the one hand, appealing: not only does it serve the argument by stressing different perspectives on the same issue, but it also distinguishes...25 Mar Posner and Sykes Book Symposium: Comment by Andrew Guzman
[Andrew Guzman is Professor of Law and Director of the Advanced Law Degree Programs at Berkeley Law School, University of California, Berkeley.] This is a superb book. I say this without the slightest bit of surprise, as that is what one would expect from these authors. In addition to the quality of the content, the book is all the more important because there is no comparable tour of international law from a law and economics perspective. I have disagreements with some of the content of the book – it would...
28 Apr Symposium on Boyd van Dijk’s Preparing for War: Preparing for War – Demythologising the Post WWII Years and Charting the Untraveled Paths of CA3
to hear whether van Dijk’s archival research sheds any further light on this question. More Work to Be Done? Like all the best books, van Dijk’s book raises a number of questions in the mind of the reader and identifies avenues for further research and analysis. While the book focuses on the UK, French, US, Soviet Union and ICRC delegations, its methodology raises curiosity about what was going on in the other delegations’ back rooms. His work also shows that many other States played key roles in the drafting of...