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28 Jul

should have had article 5 tribunals to establish their non-POW status), but only as a static quantity that has to be navigated. In other words, the book looks at international law as an obstacle rather than as a tool. For Wittes, IL is something that can’t be ignored (this book, like others from the center and center right, has David Addington in its cross hairs). But there’s not even a suggestion that an appropriate parallel vehicle for addressing the challenge is found in international law. A likely response: well, we...
28.07.08 | |

06 Jun

of the prosecution in international criminal trials. As the first comprehensive study of an international legal actor whose decisions have widespread political repercussions, this book will be essential reading for all with an interest in international criminal justice. My chapter is the one mentioned above on completion issues; other contributors include Marieke Werde and Anthony Triolo (Resources); Luc Cote (Independence and Impartiality); Fred Megret (Accountability and Ethics); Kai Ambos and Stefanie Bock (Procedural Regimes); and David Re (Appeal). Anyone interested in international criminal tribunals should find the book extremely useful....
06.06.12 | |

14 Mar

...work. Interlocutors – If You Can Find Them Perhaps the central focus of the liberal approach to international courts, which informs Helfer and Slaughter’s 1997 article on supranational adjudication, Alter’s 2001 book on the ECJ, and her 2014 book The New Terrain of International Law, is the relationships than an IC cultivates with its various supranational and subnational interlocutors, including regional secretariats, national courts, government agencies, individual litigants, and jurist advocacy networks. These “compliance partners,” it is argued, are fundamental to the success of any IC, and Transplanting International Courts...
14.03.18 | |

23 Dec

Don’t worry, I will not be linking to any and all reviews of my book. (Only the good ones.) I mention this review — a review essay written by the distinguished scholar David Fraser at Nottingham (sub. req.) — because it uses my book as a springboard to discuss a number of important historiographic issues concerning World War II scholarship that readers may find interesting. Here is the abstract: This review article discusses the emergence of the subsequent proceedings before the US Military Tribunals from the shadows of the trial...
23.12.11 | |

02 Feb

over the direction of legal scholarship. As such, we should commend those courageous enough to venture into unfamiliar waters. Moreover, Buser’s intervention is both theoretically and methodologically valuable for TWAIL. In his book, he applies the theory to IR and to IL in novel ways. In Buser’s response to my comment—forthcoming at the end of this symposium on his book—I hope to hear some reflections on his use of TWAIL and how it helped advance his own scholarship. Where Buser falls short is at the same location that many critical...
02.02.21 | |

12 Mar

When I was just out of law school and desperately seeking advice as to what to write about, I turned to Professor Bradley for ideas. He recommended that I buy Louis Henkin’s treatise Foreign Affairs and the United States Constitution (a book I had somehow never heard of during my three years of law school). Amazon.com informs me that I followed Professor Bradley’s advice and bought the book on October 8, 1999. Thus, thanks to Professor Henkin (and Professor Bradley!), much of my early academic work was inspired by what...
12.03.13 | |

01 Feb

...view that the United States and “Europe” have dictated the terms of the global economy for too long. Set against this context, “Emerging Powers, Global Justice and International Economic Law” is a timely book, based on a doctoral dissertation which Andreas Buser defended at the Department of Law of Freie Universität Berlin and which he wrote under the supervision of Professor Heike Krieger and in the context of the Berlin-Potsdam Research Group on “The International Rule of Law – Rise or Decline?” Andreas Buser examines the potential contribution of four...
01.02.21 | |

12 Mar

Journal of International Law, the Yale Journal of International Law and the Harvard Journal of International Law, as well as by judges and counsel in the U.S. Supreme Court and federal appeals and district courts. You can see the rest of Professor Cheng’s impressive record here. Professor Cheng’s book is an ambitious contribution to the field of international legal theory, and, unlike many contributions to this field, the book is both lucid and insightful. We are thrilled to have a chance to discuss his book over the next few days....
12.03.12 | |

04 Feb

We are very pleased to introduce Walter Russell Mead to Opinio Juris readers to discuss his most recent book, God and Gold: Britain, America, and the Making of the Modern World. Walter Russell Mead is the Henry A. Kissinger senior fellow for U.S. foreign policy at the Council on Foreign Relations and one of the country’s leading students of American foreign policy. His book, Special Providence: American Foreign Policy and How It Changed the World (Alfred A. Knopf, 2004), was widely hailed by reviewers, historians, and diplomats as an important...
04.02.08 | |

21 Sep

We are very pleased to host from today through Friday an online symposium considering Chiara Giorgetti‘s book A Principled Approach to State Failure: International Community Actions in Emergency Situations (Brill 2010). Dr. Giorgetti, an attorney at White and Case and an adjunct professor at Georgetown Law Center, will be with us for the rest of the week, discussing various of themes from her book. Moreover, we will also be joined by Gian Luca Burci, the Legal Counsel of the World Health Organization; Greg Fox of Wayne State University Law School;...
21.09.10 | |

12 Apr

...than replaces traditional publications. Is the next great wave of legal scholarship going to be self-published books? I would not be surprised. Bob Mayer’s post today about self-publishing his latest book of historical fiction, Duty, Honor, Country, only reinforces that impression. Much of what he says could apply with equal force to books of non-fiction, including legal scholarship. Here’s a few choice excerpts: I appreciate the opportunity to blog here today, as it’s a very special occasion, not only being the 150th Anniversary of the start of the Civil War,...
12.04.11 | |

21 Oct

[Michael Birnhack is a Professor of Law at Tel Aviv University] Anupam Chander’s new book, The Electronic Silk Road is an admirable scholarly achievement. Chander draws our—the global community of cyberspace users—attention to the increasing globalization of information-based services. He discusses the pros and cons of what he calls cybertrade or Trade 2.0, or more specifically, net-work, with much clarity, drawing on a wide array of examples, ranging from North to South. The book provides a rich description and timely observations, as well as a sound and coherent set of...
21.10.13 | |