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27 Sep Symposium on the Current Crisis in Myanmar: Legal Implications – An Introduction
...and the Asia Justice Coalition have partnered to bring to you this Symposium, “Current Crisis in Myanmar: Legal Implications”. Previously, in August 2020, both partners hosted the symposium, “The Impact and Implications of International Law: Myanmar and the Rohingya”, in which various aspects of the legal developments related to the Rohingya were canvassed. This year, the intention is to broaden the discussion, to include the current events in Myanmar, given their inescapable impact on questions of justice and accountability, not just for the Rohingya but also the rest of the...16 Jan Asia’s Ambivalence About International Law & Institutions: Introduction to Opinio Juris and EJIL:Talk! Mini-Symposium
...sad coda that the symposium also follows soon after the passing of one of the truly great international lawyers from Asia — Christopher Weeramantry, a Sri Lankan scholar who served as Vice President of the International Court of Justice. The full article is available here in draft form, the final version appearing later this month in EJIL. I am enormously grateful to the convenors of this symposium and the distinguished jurists who have agreed to participate. I look forward to their responses, from which I know I will learn much....27 May Symposium on the Law of the Sea and the Law of Responsibility
This week we are delighted to bring you a symposium exploring the intersection between the law of responsibility and the law of the sea. The motivation for this symposium is twofold: First, although there is long interaction between the law of the sea and the law of responsibility, the law of the sea has become an area where the intersection is of increasing importance. The posts this week will highlight the ways in which the law of responsibility is being invoked in current controversies involving marine species and resources like...26 Feb Symposium: The Assumptions of Koh’s Transnational Legal Process as Counter-Strategy
interesting and important questions and issues. In closing, I would like to try to explore the common themes raised in the essays, and suggest that they all relate to a potential paradox in transnational legal process, and a weakness in its utility as a counter-strategy, that Harold may want to address as he expands the article into a book. Recap To briefly re-cap the symposium, Harold’s article argued that actors inside and outside of the U.S. government are, and should be, leveraging the features of transnational legal process as a...20 Sep IL/IR Symposium: What Can IR Learn from IL?
[Jeffrey L. Dunoff is the Laura H. Carnell Professor of Law at Temple University Beasley School of Law and Mark A. Pollack is professor of Political Science and Jean Monnet Chair ad personam at Temple University] Many thanks to Opinio Juris – and to all of the Symposium participants – for a stimulating and informative discussion of the virtues and vices of international law and international relations (IL/IR) scholarship. The Symposium highlights some of the ways that IL/IR research has enriched our understanding of the making, interpretation, and enforcement of...20 Feb Georgetown Symposium: Corporate Responsibility and the Alien Tort Statute
Jordan Response... Thanks, and twenty U.S. Supreme Court cases have already recognized that corporations and companies can have duties and rights under treaty-based and customary international law. 51 Va. J. Int'l L. 977, 978 & n.2, 986-89 (2011), available at http://ssrn.com/abstract=1701992 Hopefully the Supreme Court Justices will follow the twenty cases....07 Mar New York University Journal of International Law and Politics, Vol. 44:2 Online Symposium
The NYU Journal of International Law and Politics is partnering once again with Opinio Juris for an online symposium. The symposium will correspond with the simultaneous release this week of our Vol. 44, No. 2 issue, featuring a ground-breaking piece by Professor James Hathaway, a world-renowned leader in refugee studies and director of Michigan’s refugee law program, and Jason Pobjoy, a Ph.D. candidate in Law at Gonville and Caius College, University of Cambridge and a visiting doctoral researcher at NYU. The article, Queer Cases Make Bad Law, serves as a...