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17 Sep Organizing Rebellion Symposium: A Multi-Faceted Study of Armed Groups and International Law
[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,...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...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...
15 Nov Symposium on Erin Pobjie’s Prohibited Force: The Meaning of Article 2(4) of the UN Charter
...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)...03 Oct Book Symposium Investment Law: The International Minimum Standard of Treatment of Aliens and Administration of Domestic Regulation under WTO and Investment Protection Law
[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...25 Mar Book Symposium on “Economic Foundations of International Law” by Eric Posner and Alan Sykes
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...04 May Gary Solis Discusses New Book at ASIL
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...19 Jun Berman Book Discussion: Beyond the Boundaries of Berman’s Global Legal Pluralism
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...
20 Jan Q&A: The Times and Temporalities of Human Rights
...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...27 Jun Linos Book Symposium: Comments by Harlan Cohen
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...