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22 Aug When Is a Judicial Decision an Abuse of Power?
...vulnerable groups who depend on nonjudicial governmental actors for full protection against injustice’ [I should note here that Sager understands constitutional justice as ‘far from exhaustive of all political justice’]. In short, under-enforcement amounts to a circumscription of judicial activity best characterized as ‘secondary action by the Court, action in service of the efforts of the nonjudicial actors to realize constitutional justice.' Again, while Sager is outlining a prescriptive model for us, I believe that in fact the Court has largely conformed to this model. When it has not, it...
19 Feb Justice for the Yazidis in the Ishaq Case by the Stockholm District Court – Part II
...well as national courts, including others that operate under the principle of universal jurisdiction. Such qualitative outcomes are the harvest of seeds which have been planted across the international criminal justice ecosystem and include: the dedication of curious and skilful prosecutors that do not shy away from looking across jurisdiction or collaborating with investigative mechanisms, such as IIIM-Syria and UNITAD (p.35-36). The consideration of the work of the Syria COI, Yazda and the International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH) and other European criminal justice authorities successfully facilitated through Eurojust contributed...
19 Mar What Lessons Can We Learn from the Prosecutor’s Election? Part I
52-53, 63, 173, and 183), not commissioned by the Assembly of States Parties, then resounded on deaf ears. The veil of silence around these issues was yet further penetrated through the Twitter campaign conducted by Women’s Initiatives for Gender Justice and Atlas, “Why I didn’t report”, which ran from 11 to 22 January 2021. During that campaign anonymous women from anonymous organizations engaged in the field of international criminal justice explained why they didn’t report allegations of misconduct against presumably more senior officials in the work place. These anonymous disclosures,...01 Mar “Future Perspectives on International Criminal Justice” Published
of humanitarian law – Antonio Cassese and the creation of the customary law of non-international armed conflict Tamás Hoffmann; 5. The international criminal legal process: towards a realistic model of international criminal law in action Christoph Burchard. Part II. Theorizing International Criminal Justice: 6. The two liberalisms of international criminal law Darryl Robinson; 7. International criminal law at the crossroads: from ad hoc imposition to a treaty-based universal system Kai Ambos; 8. In search of the ‘vertical’: towards an institutional theory of international criminal justice’s core Frédéric Mégret. Part III....01 Feb Go Read Jens’s New Book!
international law is the product of nation-states cooperating to escape a brutish State of Nature—a result that is not only legally binding but also in each state’s self-interest. I have had the pleasure of reading the book, and it’s tremendous. Many international-law scholars are (understandably) resistant to the caricature of international law presented by the Posners and Yoos of the world, but few have the theoretical chops to engage in the kind of imminent critique of “New Realism” that Jens provides. I hope the book gets the audience it deserves....14 Nov OUP/Opinio Juris Book Club: Mary Ellen O’Connell’s The Power and the Purpose of International Law
On Monday through Wednesday next week, Mary Ellen O’Connell, the Robert and Marion Short Professor of Law at the University of Notre Dame Law School, will join us to discuss her new book, The Power and Purpose of International Law. We are also very pleased that Beth Simmons, the Director of the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs and the Clarence Dillon Professor of International Affairs in the Department of Government at Harvard University, will also join us for the conversation. This book discussion will give us the opportunity to dig...14 Feb Final Thoughs on Discussion of How International Law Works
As this it my final post in connection with this discussion of my book, How International Law Works, I want to thank Opinio Juris for giving me this opportunity, and the commentators for so thoughtfully sharing their opinions. Much of the discussion has been about the methodology used in the book, and as I have had my say on that subject in my several prior posts I will not dwell on it now. Let me instead mention a couple of things that I hope the book has achieved or will...10 Apr Response to Blum Published
As readers will recall, I wrote a short response to Gabriella Blum’s wonderful essay on IHL and common-but-differentiated responsibilities for our inaugural Opinio Juris–Harvard International Law Journal symposium. HILJ has now published my much longer formal response. Here is an overview, from my introduction: Blum’s normative analysis of the desirability of CDRs in IHL is exceptionally powerful, and I agree with most of her conclusions. This brief response, therefore, is intended to be more constructive than critical. In particular, I want to raise five issues that I believe warrant further...23 Jun My Response to a Recent Attack on SOAS in The Spectator
...response here. And in case you are wondering, here is the final paragraph The Spectator refused to run: Only Hilton knows why he felt the need to portray SOAS so unfairly. But his flagrant disregard for the truth seems to indicate that he is more afraid of SOAS’s multiculturalism than he is of its supposed anti-Semitism. For those who long for a whiter, more Judaeo-Christian world, the vibrancy of SOAS can be a scary sight indeed. I hope you’ll read both the original article and my response. Comments most welcome!...10 Jul Guest Post: Self-Defence – Weapons, Lawful Commands, Duty to Retreat and Summary
...a poisoned bullet to protect yourself in self-defence? The Law of Armed Conflict (LOAC) prohibits the use of certain weapons. Under the Rome Statute and the Australian Commonwealth Criminal Code, it is a war crime to employ poison or poisoned weapons, prohibited gases, or prohibited bullets.In contrast, the law of self-defence does not specifically address the means of response to a threat, but rather merely requires the response to be necessary, reasonable and proportional. Under the Australian Criminal Code and the Rome Statute, there is no limitation on pleading self-defence...