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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...
31 Aug Introduction to the Symposium on Visual Investigations: Best Practice in Collaboration and Community-led Approaches
...that Opinio Juris is hosting a symposium on our frontline work over the past year – 2025 – 2026. We curated these articles to reflect upon the emergence of new collaborations and strategies within visual investigations, particularly from the Global Majority. Our symposium consists of a series of blogs authored by WITNESS colleagues, community partners, and collaborators, highlighting the development of tools and techniques that have significantly enhanced community-led approaches to accountability. These approaches include using LLMs for audiovisual analysis, community-based visual investigations, and owned digital archives documenting state violence,...28 Aug Symposium: Aeyal Gross’s “The Writing on the Wall”
of Occupation (CUP, 2017). The book develops ideas that Aeyal discussed on Opinio Juris — in a symposium on the functional approach to occupation — more than five years ago. So it’s fitting that we discuss his book on the blog now! We are delighted to welcome a number of commenters, including Eliav Lieblich (TAU), Valentina Azarova (Koç) (who also contributed to the earlier symposium), Diana Buttu (IMEU), and Eugene Kontorovich (Northwestern). Aeyal will respond to the comments at the end of the symposium. We look forward to the conversation!...05 Sep Emerging Voices Symposium 2016 Comes to a Close
The summer is coming to a close and so is our fourth annual Emerging Voices Symposium. We have featured fantastic posts from emerging scholars, practitioners and students over the course of the summer and a roundup follows of what it is that they have covered. Alexandra Hofer started our 2016 edition off with her post on assessing the role of the European Union as an enforcer of international law in the Ukranian crisis, concluding that both the EU and Russia ought to change their practices in order to escape the...07 Feb Harvard International Law Journal, Vol. 52(1): Online Symposium
The Evolution of Hostile Takeover Regimes in Developed and Emerging Markets: An Analytical Framework by John Armour (Oxford), Jack B. Jacobs (Justice, Delaware Supreme Court) & Curtis J. Milhaupt (Columbia) . This article traces the development of national regulatory responses in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Japan, and proposes an analytical framework that is then extrapolated to provide insights on emerging markets including China, India, and Brazil. A response will be provided Zen Shishido (Hitotsubashi University, Japan). Finally, on Friday, we will conclude with Universal Exceptionalism in International...08 Nov The Oxford Guide to Treaties: An Opinio Juris Symposium
with examples of how modern treaties are drafted. Thus, the last section of the book includes 350 treaty excerpts on 23 treaty topics ranging from how to deal with multiple language treaty texts to the use of simplified amendment procedures (for those looking for a longer introduction to the project, see here). Since the book is consciously treatise-like in its coverage, this symposium has opted for a slightly different format than the norm. In lieu of comments on the book’s thesis, over the next few days we will use The...
05 Jun Symposium on Reproductive Violence in International Law: A New Era of Accountability for Reproductive Violence at the ICC?
[Valeria Babără works as Legal and Advocacy Officer with the Women’s Initiatives for Gender Justice , where she monitors and researches developments on the prosecution and adjudication of gender-based crimes, and contributes to legal publications including ‘ The Hague Principles on Sexual Violence ‘ and ‘ Judicial Approaches to SGBC at the ICC ‘.] This post forms part of the Opinio Juris Symposium on Reproductive Violence in International Law, in which diverse authors reflect on how the International Criminal Court and other jurisdictions have responded to violations of reproductive health and...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...05 Apr NYU JILP Symposium: Policing International Prosecutors Concluding Remarks
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 would like to once again extend our deepest gratitude to Opinio Juris for providing us with such a wonderful forum to host this symposium. Thank you to all of the scholars who contributed insightful commentary, and especially to Jenia Turner for her thought provoking article. We hope this symposium helped to advance the dialogue about the complicated issues...
16 Jun Symposium on the 1951 Refugee Convention at 75: Introduction
...relevance of the 1951 Convention relating to the Status of Refugees (and/or its 1967 Protocol). While we should say, as it is practice, that the contributions may not necessarily always reflect UNHCR’s views, they provide a much-needed kaleidoscope of opinions to support the work of promotion and protection of the 1951 Convention. We are therefore extremely grateful for the precious contributions of all the authors of this Symposium. In the following contributions to this Symposium, the Director of UNHCR’s Division of International Protection and Solutions, Elizabeth Tan will outline how...