In association with the International Commission of Jurists

Search: Affective Justice: Book Symposium: A Response

17 Sep

[Katharine Fortin is a lecturer at the Netherlands Institute of Human Rights, Utrecht University, and teaches human rights law and international humanitarian law. She is the founder and co-editor of the Armed Groups and International Law blog. This is the latest post in the co-hosted symposium with Armed Groups and International Law on Organizing Rebellion .] It was hard to decide which parts of Tilman’s excellent book Organizing Rebellion to address in this post, as I have written on armed groups from the three perspectives that he covers – IHL,...
17.09.19 | |

15 Nov

...my book observe, article 2(4) is foundational to the international legal order, yet its application is complex and necessitates a clear, adaptable framework for contemporary challenges. The destabilisation of the geopolitical landscape, including conflicts in Ukraine and Gaza and recent US political developments with far-reaching implications, underscores the urgent need to reinforce shared international norms. My curiosity about jus contra bellum, kindled by Noam Lubell and ignited by Claus Kreß, led me to examine the meaning of its central provision: the prohibition of the use of force in article 2(4)...
15.11.24 | |

16 Sep

This week, we are hosting a symposium on Interdisciplinary Perspectives on International Law and International Relations: The State of the Art, edited by Jeff Dunoff and Mark Pollack. Jeff and Mark will introduce the book later today, but here is the abstract: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on International Law and International Relations: The State of the Art brings together the most influential contemporary writers in the fields of international law and international relations to take stock of what we know about the making, interpretation, and enforcement of international law. The contributions to...
16.09.13 | |

25 Mar

This week we’re hosting a symposium on Economic Foundations of International Law, the new book by Eric Posner and Alan Sykes. Here is the abstract: The ever-increasing exchange of goods and ideas among nations, as well as cross-border pollution, global warming, and international crime, pose urgent questions for international law. Here, two respected scholars provide an intellectual framework for assessing these pressing legal problems from a rational choice perspective. The approach assumes that states are rational, forward-looking agents which use international law to address the actions of other states that...
25.03.13 | |

03 Oct

[Dr Anastasios Gourgourinis is Lecturer in Public International Law at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens Faculty of Law, and Research Fellow at the Academy of Athens] Let me start by extending a warm thanks to Freya Baetens for her overall care, diligence and patience as the editor of Investment Law within International Law: Integrationist Perspectives, the publication of which is very timely and indeed. I am also grateful to Opinio Juris for hosting this Book Symposium, as well as to Anne van Aaken, who I am privileged to...
03.10.13 | |

20 Jan

...the ECtHR, to what Julia Dehm refers to as the ‘temporal unfitness’ of environmental human rights to ‘deliver temporal justice in the face of temporally transgressive environmental harms’ (p. 45), and the ‘temporal myopia’ of jus cogens norms (Mary H Hansel, ch. 10), to take some examples discussed in the book. At the same time, key international human rights bodies rarely confront temporality in explicit terms. How do you hope the book’s foregrounding of temporality might influence such actors? KM: The book views human rights bodies and actors as regularly...
20.01.23 | |

25 Mar

...Guzman and Pauwelyn). On almost every topic in international law—from the practical import of customary law to the repayment of “odious debt” to the laws of war—the economic perspective offers important insights into how international law actually works. At last there’s one book to introduce the basic concepts and illustrate their utility. Law students and academics, alike, will welcome Eric Posner and Alan Sykes’ Economic Foundations of International Law. This new book will likely gain most of its readership in law schools, but for scholars the book’s greatest value may...
25.03.13 | |

19 Jun

brilliant and eloquent weaving of Berman’s various scholarly threads. While the book concludes in part that law is “messy,” the book’s argument is quite neat, tight, and logical. Berman addresses and redresses the dominant critiques lobbed at his work over the years, showcases agility with interdisciplinary research, and demonstrates the value of legal scholarship that does not end with heavy-handed prescriptions. Like all books of this breadth, there is room for critique. Instead, in this post, I offer some broader thoughts on ways to push Berman’s outstanding work beyond its...
19.06.12 | |

27 Jun

right that democratic diffusion may be better suited to achieving economic and social rights than to right clear-cut violations of civil and political ones. But that simply suggests choosing other mechanisms, whether state-to-state compliance or domestic courts. One of the strengths of the book is its ability to rise above disciplinary and ideological battles and boundaries. As should be clear from prior comments, the book is hard to categorize. Is it a book about comparative law, international law, or domestic law? Is Linos a proponent of rationalism, constructivism, or liberal...
27.06.13 | |

04 May

Massachusetts Avenue, NW Washington, DC 20008 Metro: Dupont Circle ASIL’s Lieber Society and the ICRC are sponsoring a discussion with ASIL member Gary D. Solis about his new book, The Law of Armed Conflict: International Humanitarian Law, published by ASIL Publishing Partner Cambridge University Press. ASIL hosts events such as this book discussion on an occasional basis as an informational service to bring experts on current international law topics together with those who have an interest in them. The Law of Armed Conflict: International Humanitarian Law introduces law students and...
04.05.10 | |

19 Jun

This post is part of our symposium on Dean Schiff Berman’s book Global Legal Pluralism. Other posts can be found in Related Posts below. This is a great book, and I am almost completely on board with the orientation here. Paul is right on the money in navigating between the territorial sovereigntists on the one hand and the cosmopolitan universalists on the other. The critique of the universalists is especially key insofar as it persuasively rebuts a standard sovereigntist fallacy (along the lines of, the sovereign state may be imperfect,...
19.06.12 | |

26 Jul

will be directed to it as a first stop in getting their bearings. Judges may consult it. It is a very useful book. At a time when the Chief Justice of the United States complains that most legal scholarship is entirely irrelevant to practicing lawyers (echoing complaints by others), it is pleasing to have a genuinely useful book at which to point. Hurrah for useful and comprehensive academic books! At the same time, I must admit to feeling some frustration as I delved deeper into the book, a frustration that...
26.07.11 | |