Search: Affective Justice: Book Symposium: A Response
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?...
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...
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...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...
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...
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...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...
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. ...
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...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...