Search: Affective Justice: Book Symposium: A Response

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...

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;...

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...

[ Gregory Gordon is Associate Professor of Law, Associate Dean for Development and External Affairs and Director of the Research Postgraduates Programme at The Chinese University of Hong Kong Faculty of Law. He was formerly a prosecutor with the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda and the U.S. Department of Justice, Office of Special Investigations.] I am grateful to Opinio Juris, especially organizers Chris Borgen and Jessica Dorsey, for providing this amazing platform to have a discussion about my new book Atrocity Speech Law: Foundation, Fragmentation, Fruition. And I would like...

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....

I want to thank Tom for participating in this discussion; I have re-read the book as we have had this discussion, and it has provided great illumination on what the text is about. I have learned a great deal from the discussion and from the book. I apologize for coming late with this entry; it was hard to get to this until the weekend, and I wanted to be certain I had fully re-read the book – Tom, just when you thought the discussion was over … a late and...

...a point the book explores in considerable depth. But many of these deficits arise not only in informal organizations, but also in treaty-based forums like the European Union. Moreover, as I have observed in my own work, where we do see obvious democratic deficits, informal organizations are much more likely and capable of undertaking change than their hard law counterparts—from the G-20s usurpation of the G-7’s leadership role, to the formal inclusion of regional consultative bodies in the FSB’s new and revised 2012 Charter. Thus one of the book’s lessons,...

...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...

[Alejandro Chehtman is a Professor of Law at Universidad Torcuato Di Tella (Argentina) and Fellow at the Argentine National Research Council (CONICET).] In Lawmaking under pressure Giovanni Mantilla has written an indispensable book for anyone interested in, or working on the laws of armed conflict, international legal history, and the theory of international relations (IR). The book uncovers and critically examines the process through which the international community came to regulate internal (non-international) armed conflicts. It is not common to find a book so relevant so these many different audiences,...

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....

discussion and reception for the book tomorrow, December 1, and I take it that through some email list glitches, numbers of people (including me) did not get alerted. Although, alas, I have to teach last week of classes during the event tomorrow, I don’t think Vicki would mind my announcing the event – there’s a rsvp email at the bottom: Tuesday, December 1, starting at 3:30, on the 12th floor of the Gewirz center on the Georgetown Law campus, 600 New Jersey Ave., N.W., Washington D.C. The book party will...

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...