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15 Dec Justice as Message Symposium: Sending Out an SOS
yet know, and we may never be ready to know. All we can do is reflect, in the present, and it is here that Carsten’s work finds itself in its finest hour. Justice as Message: Expressivist Foundations of International Criminal Justice is a must read. It offers a brilliant compass to where expressivism may and may not lead. It has been a privilege to engage with Carsten’s work, and we all owe him not only congratulations, but also appreciations, for the effort, creativity, and comprehensiveness he brings to the subject....21 May Book Discussion “Outsourcing War and Peace”: Outsourcing and Organizational Culture
commander can seek “top cover” by talking to the lawyer assigned to that commander’s commander), and they can recommend that a commander invoke the military justice system in cases of abuse. As I note in the book: Military lawyers, embedded with troops in combat and consulting regularly with commanders, have internalized and seek to operationalize the core values inscribed in the international law of armed conflict, in particular the imposition of limits on the use of force. To be sure, the lawyers are not always successful, and it would be...25 Jul International Law in the U.S. Supreme Court
Thank you for the opportunity to comment on International Law in the U.S. Supreme Court, edited by Bill Dodge, Mike Ramsey and David Sloss. Mike has already described the book’s purpose and organizational structure in a post from this morning. My post focuses on some of the book’s overall strengths and perhaps weaknesses. Edited volumes are hard to do well, and are often little more than a hit or miss set of loosely connected essays. This book, by contrast, is extremely well-edited and the individual contributions are very carefully linked...07 Feb Opinio Juris Book Discussion: Andrew Guzman, “How International Law Works”
The fun continues at Opinio Juris next week, February 11-14, as we host an online discussion of Professor Andrew Guzman’s book, How International Law Works, which has just been published by Oxford University Press. Professor Guzman teaches at UC-Berkeley, Boalt Hall School of Law, where he directs the International Legal Studies Program. Guzman is a prolific scholar and this book makes an important contribution to international law theory by deploying the tools of rational choice to explain how and why international law affects the behavior of states. Professor Guzman will...21 Mar Book Review, Oxford Companion to International Criminal Justice
My book review of the Oxford Companion, edited by Antonio Cassese and many others, has just been published in the new issue of the American Journal of International Law. It’s a decent-sized review, almost 5,000 words, as befits a book that checks in at more than 1200 pages. I argue that the book is a magisterial achievement, one of the most important ever published on international criminal law, but suffers from two important flaws: it reflects an extremely prosecution-centric view of ICL, and it significantly overstates ICL’s coherence. (My favorite...25 Apr Book Discussion: Peter Lindseth’s Power and Legitimacy: Reconciling Europe and the Nation-State
for Advanced Studies as well as a lecturer at the Academy of European Law, both at the European University Institute (EUI) in Florence, Italy. The book weaves a textured analysis of the Europe’s institutional futures: A succession of crises has marked the last decade of European integration, leading to disorientation among integration scholars. Older frameworks for understanding have been challenged, while the outlines of new ones are only now beginning to emerge. This book looks to history to provide a more durable explanation of the nature and legitimacy of European...