Search: Affective Justice: Book Symposium: A Response
08 Aug Don’t evade ‘em, invade ‘em!
I harbored the faint hope that he would turn it down. To the contrary, the idea for him was love at first sight. His dissertation was so good that when it was published by Transnational Publishers, Inc., it came to define the field of humanitarian intervention in international law. Early evidence of this was the fact that the establishment folks in and around the American Society of International Law seemed to have taken a vow of silence about Fernando’s book. As late as 1991, a published symposium on Right versus...02 May Mark Osiel, The End of Reciprocity
University of Iowa law professor Mark Osiel – an old friend of mine and someone well known to many of us, particularly for his books and writing on mass atrocities – has a new book out, The End of Reciprocity: Terror, Torture, and the Law of War (Cambridge 2009). I’ve read it at pretty high speed – looking for some specific issues on targeted killing, mostly, but I still read it and the notes all the way through – and I want to highly recommend it to our readers. Incisive...17 Jul The Pre-Trial Chamber’s Dangerous Comoros Review Decision
...I how huge such subtleties actually are. Needn't be said that it matters when dealing with the most pivotal topic of peace in the world...that wars, death, destruction can result. I still think Mr. Heller, from a professional point of view, owes his readers a response to your comments. No response is not a resolution, and it leaves deeply caring readers dangling. Kevin Jon Heller Dr J, It's nearly 1:00 am in Melbourne, where I'm currently located, so I will post a substantive response to Hostage in the morning. In...
16 Feb Symposium on Rewriting Histories of the Use of Force: Mnemohistory and the Affective Life of International Law – A Method for the Madness
analysis. There are empirical limitations to this approach. Of course, gleaning the “core values” of the actors involved is difficult given that ethnographic observations and interviews with the participants is out of the question. I’m still on the fence about whether textbooks generate an accurate reflection of the state of the field, or is illustrative of its core identity, despite several interesting studies emerging in recent years; Anthea Roberts’s being the most prominent. This is for the simple reason that those writing international law textbooks tend to derive from a...