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18 Jun Contingency in International Law Symposium: How Could International Law Have Been Otherwise? A Rejoinder
[Ingo Venzke is Professor for International Law and Social Justice at the University of Amsterdam and Director of the Amsterdam Center for International Law (ACIL).] Our edited volume has asked a question that is deceptive in its simplicity: Could international law have been otherwise? One could expect the answer to be a resounding ‘yes’, given that no serious account is nowadays left that would consider legal developments to be somehow necessary. Of course, it is not so easy. The more one looks for contingency, the more it slips away, Michele...
02 May Beyond Territoriality: Symposium on Jurisdictional “Hooks” for (Extraterritorial) Human Rights Obligations – Reflecting on the Regulation of Global Value Chains and the Duties of States and Private Actors
...a recognized jurisdictional basis.’ Regardless of whichever side of this debate one falls on, there is a clear need to nuance contemporary understandings of extraterritorial obligations, or even depart from the idea of extraterritoriality in this context (as argued by some of the contributors to this symposium), in order to more robustly regulate private actors such as TNCs. For instance, Sara Seck poignantly illuminates the inadequacy of conceptualizing human rights obligations across borders in relation to environmental harms as extraterritorial and calls for a relational approach to understand transnational corporate...04 Apr NYU JILP Symposium: Policing International Prosecutors Introduction
This post is part of the NYU Journal of International Law and Politics Vol. 45, No. 1 symposium. Other posts in this series can be found in the related posts below. We are excited to collaborate again this week with Opinio Juris for an online symposium. The symposium will be a discussion of Jenia Iontcheva Turner’s article Policing International Prosecutors published in our Volume 45, No. 1 issue. Professor Turner’s piece analyzes the complex issue about how to “how to ensure that prosecutors are held accountable for their errors and...
17 Apr Symposium on Vedanta Resources Plc vs Lungowe
...scrutiny is the Court’s discussion and findings about the “proper forum” for the claim and the likelihood that claimants will have access to substantial justice in Zambia. The Court found that the proper place for the claims would be Zambia, but the risk that claimants would not have access to substantial justice in that forum convinced the Court to decide England was finally the proper forum. Gabrielle Holly says this should be seen as a cautionary note that may limit the prospects for some future claimants. The UK Supreme Court...
14 Oct International Organizations Accountability Symposium: An Introduction
with them. The introduction to the symposium is freely available here. We are delighted Opinio Juris is hosting a symposium on this fora this week – the authors will be contributing short blog posts on their work. The goal of the issue is to offer creative new ways to think about the issue of accountability of international organizations. It proposes to treat both the sort of systemic organizational failure evidenced in the mass torts cases and more localised but equally systemic problems of sexual abuse, as symptomatic of broader and...30 Jun Virginia Journal of International Law, Vol. 48-4: Online Symposium
The Virginia Journal of International Law will continue its partnership with Opinio Juris this week with an online symposium featuring three articles recently published in VJIL Vol. 48-4, available here. Our discussion on Tuesday will focus on the constitutional history of American empire at the turn of the twentieth century. In her article, “They say I am not an American…”: The Noncitizen National and the Law of American Empire, Christina Duffy Burnett (Columbia) revisits the historical events surrounding the Supreme Court’s decision in Gonzales v. Williams (1904), which relegated Puerto...28 Jun YJIL Symposium: Beyond the (Cute) Face of the Matter: Aims, Coherence and Necessity of the EU Seal Products Regulations
[Tamara Perisin is a member of the faculty of law at the University of Zagreb] This post is part of the Yale Journal of International Law Volume 37, Issue 2 symposium. Other posts in this series can be found in the related posts below. The article by Rob Howse and Joanna Langille on the EU Seal Products Regulations goes far beyond a case study on a challenged measure and pending dispute. The article places the WTO challenge in the context of the development of a regulator-friendly world trading scheme sensitive...26 Apr Events and Announcements: 25 April 2020
...to its regular offerings of high-level scholarly articles and legal development columns. For this purpose, we are currently looking for a Book Review Editor with at least 3 years of post-PhD experience (or equivalent) and, preferably, with previous editorial expertise. Women and non-Western scholars are particularly encouraged to apply. The Book Review Editor will be asked to evaluate incoming book reviews, as well as to identify recently published titles suitable for review and suitable reviewers. The Book Review Editor will work closely with the co-Editors-in-Chief (Prof. Régis Bismuth and Prof....01 Aug A Few Final Thoughts and the Problem of Un-Ringing Bells…
...so rather than dwell on this point, I want to briefly segue to a larger question that has plagued me from the beginning of this debate: are we to judge proposals like those in Ben’s book in a vacuum? Or, in contrast, should we see these proposals through the lens of the many egregious missteps the Bush Administration has taken in its conduct of the fight against terrorism over the past seven years? I ask this question because right after finishing Ben’s book, I read Jane Mayer’s new book, which...
04 Feb International Economic Law Symposium: An Epilogue to the Rise of Emerging Powers in the 2010s–The Turn to Geoeconomics in the 2020s
in developing countries’ struggle to preserve the flexibilities of the TRIPS agreement. In this post, I engage with Andreas Buser’s book by looking at what has followed the “rise of emerging powers”. The story recounted in the book has now moved to its next chapters. I make the following claims: (i) it is by now clear that the most consequential development for global economic governance has not been the “rise of emerging economies”, but the rise of China; and (ii) the terms in which the debate on the “rise of...