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05 Feb International Economic Law Symposium: Response by the Author
...the choice of approach to global justice attracted some criticism by commentators. While Mohsen al-Attar argues that my book is both theoretically and methodically valuable for TWAIL, he also sees several shortcomings in particular with regard to its “Eurocentric tendencies” on approaches to global justice. Among the many important points raised, I limit myself to reflecting on two issues: My use of TWAIL and how it advanced my scholarship (as asked for explicitly by Mohsen) and the perceived neglect of post-colonial and distributional critiques of international economic law. TWAIL strongly...
21 Aug States of Justice Symposium: A Response
courts, commissions of inquiries, prosecutions, and trial verdicts at the heart of the justice agenda, obscures the troubling aspects and outcomes, and the normative foundations of “international justice.” Norms and institutions are perverted in the pursuit of narrow interests, at the detriment of “justice for victims.” Ultimately, the story of hope and progress that international criminal justice tells itself may indeed just be reflective of, what Mégret termed “the feeling that the [ICC]’s ultimate constituency is nothing but itself.” Maybe someday the Court will revisit its “archive of teleology and...
18 Sep Transitional Justice Symposium: Transitional Justice Decades On–The Dialogue Continues
sense. Colleen Murphy considers the line between transitional justice and everyday justice or injustice; transitional justice raises hard cases that any general theory of justice may also have to address. Dany Celermajer raises issues about the time frame of transitions and the implications for transitional justice, as does Manal Totry -Jubran. I wrote Transitional Justice in the context of dramatic regime changes, at the time appearing to be decisive and in bold strokes-from authoritarianism to democracy, crudely or broadly speaking. But could political transition be a long process of nevertheless...
07 Jul Introduction to the Symposium on Art, Aesthetics and International Justice: The New Geometries of International Justice
force for dialogue grounded in empathy and emotional intelligence. He integrates aesthetic journeys in teaching international law to elucidate the – often hidden – emotive dimension of the field. Students grapple with the message of universality via distinct educational channels. This gives additional moral weight to traditional legal texts and judgements. The Book’s Ambition in a Nutshell I will offer some responses to the authors in the final post for the symposium. In lieu of conclusions here, I would like to briefly summarize the core ambition of the book. My...
23 Sep Symposium on Protest and Legal Mobilization: Diasporic Pursuits of Justice in Sweden After the Yazidi Genocide
...continues in streets, rituals, and commemorative gatherings, where protest becomes a mode that spans legal, cultural, and affective dimensions. It is not merely a reaction to injustice but a proactive articulation of justice across multiple registers, from courtroom trials to public demonstrations, from mourning rituals to solidarity networks. Protest, therefore, does not stand apart from legal mobilization; rather, it forms a relational continuum of justice-seeking across transnational spaces, not as a linear progression or binary opposition, but as an interconnected field where legal and extra-legal claims reinforce one another. Within...
14 Dec Justice as Message Symposium: Message from the Author
organizing and hosting this symposium. I am delighted that such a fantastic team of commentators has agreed to contribute, including new voices and authors who have shaped the field or inspired the very idea of this book. Justice as Message started originally as a project about justifications of international criminal justice, which was part of habilitation process at Humboldt University’s Faculty of Law. It was gradually trimmed down to its core, namely an explanation of the various ways in which norms, institutions and agents convey social meaning and speak or...
01 Dec UNSC Veto Power Symposium: Doing Away with the Veto for Atrocity Crimes? Trimming the Edges of an Illegitimate Institution in Order to Legitimise It
[Dire Tladi is a Professor of International Law, at the University of Pretoria, a member of UN International Law Commission and its Special Rapporteur on Peremptory Norms of General International Law (Jus Cogens).] I am grateful to Jennifer for inviting me to contribute to this symposium on her book Existing Limits to Security Council Veto Power in the Face of Atrocity Crimes. When she first asked me to participate in the symposium in August of this year, my response to her was: “I took a while to respond because I...
18 Aug States of Justice Symposium: The Hazy Future of International Criminal Justice in Light of Africa’s Interaction with the ICC
...therefore not fail to be of benefit to scholars of international law generally, international criminal law and African studies. The monograph is arranged in a unique manner. From a section on Regimes of International Criminal Justice; States of Justice; Outsourcing Justice; the International Politics of Justice; The Limits of State Cooperation; The Court Is the Political Arena; to International Justice in a World of States, the author does an excellent job on flow and chronology. Each of these chapters engages with the scholarly literature and debates on the four themes...
25 May Affective Justice Symposium: Affective Justice Under Scrutiny–Introduction to the Forum
the power of its authority in the cooperation of state parties. Yet, empirical scrutiny reveals an absence of traditional mechanisms of force and sovereign power, which renders the study of the ICC’s force so fascinating. It is also this absence in African circuits that makes various Pan-Africanist responses critical to understand. In weighing various Pan-Africanist responses, we sense there is something else at play that Affective Justice seeks to uncover and illuminate. When I began fieldwork for Affective Justice in 2012, I was building on more than a decade of...
16 Sep Transitional Justice Symposium: On Transitional Justice
limits of what is possible continue to vex us all, captured in the janus faced image of justice that so distinctly pervades Ruti’s book. Transitional justice (book and idea) will be with us for a long time because both are needed to marshal the deep-seated need for acknowledgment, settlement, remedy and resolution in violent and repressive societies. Transitional Justice deserved all the recognition it gets at its twentieth anniversary and some of us are very glad to have had this book with us on our own transitional and justice journeys....