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25 Nov Selling Our Wares in the Marketplace of Ideas
John Knox Two thoughts. First, the search nearly always starts with Google, but it doesn't end there -- if a searcher finds references to your book, won't he or she then be able to obtain the book itself easily? Second, are you safe in assuming that the book won't be completely searchable online within the next few years? Either way, I don't think books are going to be obsolete in the near future. Devon Whittle Why not just publish a book but also distribute it as an eBook? Roger Alford...22 Jun A Review of Andrew Guzman’s Overheated
I read my friend Andrew Guzman’s book Overheated: The Human Cost of Climate Change with great interest because I know Guzman is exceedingly capable at communicating complex ideas in an accessible format. He’s done that throughout his career, and Overheated is no exception. Like Hari Osofsky, I commend the book to our readers. Before you teach the law of climate change, give your students the facts by assigning portions of this book. The science behind climate change is one of those issues that is beyond the comprehension of most intelligent...
01 Apr Symposium on Military AI and the Law of Armed Conflict: Introduction
...Seoul, and we hope insights from this symposium can shape our understandings in advance of this important meeting and others like it. The symposium kicks off with a pragmatic reflection on ‘A Risk Framework for AI-Enabled Military Systems’ by Lieutenant General (Ret.) Jack Shanahan, who builds on his extensive military experience to suggest a five-tier risk hierarchy for developing and employing AI in military contexts. The second post from Rebecca Crootof shares her insights and experience with the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), explaining the inner workings, current...
05 Aug Introduction to the Symposium on The Principle of ne bis in idem in International Criminal Law by Gaiane Nuridzhanian
...in idem in the ICC cases related to the situations in Africa. Dr. Nandor Knust at UiT-The Arctic University of Norway provides thoughtful reflections on the role of ne bis in idem in the transitional justice processes. My response to these contributions concludes the symposium. I am most grateful to my colleagues for their excellent contributions and to Opinio Juris for hosting this book symposium on The Principle of ne bis in idem in International Criminal Law. Full list of symposium contributions: Introduction to the Symposium on The Principle of...
25 Oct International Law and Popular Culture Symposium: Introduction
Opinio Juris, in collaboration with Rachel Jones, who some of you will recognize as the person behind NYU’s Institute for International Law and Justice Twitter handle (@nyuiilj), is happy to host what we believe to be the first symposium on “International Law & Pop Culture” in the IL blogosphere. Fittingly, this symposium would not have been possible without the existence of social media and Twitter, where the initial idea was hatched, half joking, half serious, several months ago. Upon Rachel’s initiative, and believing in the potential of the topic, we...
24 May Lawmaking Under Pressure Symposium: An Introduction
...My historical analysis also engages rich ongoing debates among international lawyers and international historians about the contested origins of international law and institutions. Just as I strove to write a book that makes disciplinary and interdisciplinary contributions, this joint symposium between Opinio Juris and Armed Groups and International Law is meant to reflect this productive exchange across scholarly sensibilities. I am deeply honored and humbled by the willingness of a such an excellent cast of rising and established scholars of International Relations, International History, and International Law, as well as...06 Jul LJIL Symposium Vol 25-2: Beyond Constitutionalism? – A comment by Daniel Halberstam
[Daniel Halberstam, Eric Stein Collegiate Professor of Law and Director, European Legal Studies Program, University of Michigan Law School. External Professor, College of Europe, Bruges] This post is part of the Leiden Journal of International Law Vol 25-2 symposium. Other posts in this series can be found in the related posts below. Nico Krisch’s justly award-winning book thoughtfully elaborates on an approach to global governance that he sometimes calls “radical pluralism.” His basic point is that politics, not law governs the relationship among the different legal systems and regimes. Beyond...03 Oct Book Symposium Investment Law: A Reply to Gabrielle Marceau
[Dr Mary E. Footer is Professor of International Economic Law at the University of Notthingham, School of Law.] First of all my thanks to Freya Baetens and Opinio Juris for hosting the Book Symposium on Investment Law and for giving me the opportunity to post details of my chapter. I would also like to thank Gabrielle Marceau for her generous praise of my piece but more importantly for her instructive comments. In response I shall pick up on one of her comments concerning the issue of “cross-fertilisation” of WTO jurisprudence...24 Jun Book Symposium: “The Democratic Foundations of Policy Diffusion” by Katerina Linos
This week, we’re hosting a symposium on The Democratic Foundations of Policy Diffusion: How Health, Family and Employment Laws Spread Across Countries, a new book by Katerina Linos (Berkeley Law). Here is the publisher’s description: Why do law reforms spread around the world in waves? Leading theories argue that international networks of technocratic elites develop orthodox solutions that they singlehandedly transplant across countries. But, in modern democracies, elites alone cannot press for legislative reforms without winning the support of politicians, voters, and interest groups. As Katerina Linos shows in The...22 Apr Joint Opinio Juris-EJIL:Talk! Book Symposium this week
This week we are working with EJIL:Talk! to bring you a symposium on Karen Alter‘s (Northwestern) book The New Terrain of International Law: Courts, Politics, Rights (Princeton University Press). Here is the abstract: In 1989, when the Cold War ended, there were six permanent international courts. Today there are more than two dozen that have collectively issued over thirty-seven thousand binding legal rulings. The New Terrain of International Law charts the developments and trends in the creation and role of international courts, and explains how the delegation of authority to...