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31 Mar HILJ Online Symposium: Anthea Roberts Responds to Martins Paparinskis
[Anthea Roberts is an Associate Professor at the London School of Economics and Political Science and a Professor of Law at Columbia Law School.] This post is part of the HILJ Online Symposium: Volumes 54(2) & 55(1). Other posts in this series can be found in the related posts below. I want to thank Opinio Juris for hosting this symposium and Martins Paparinskis for taking the time to comment on this article. I highly respect Paparinskis’ work in the field, so I am grateful for his substantive engagement. I have...31 Mar HILJ Online Symposium: On the Love of Hybrids and Technicalities
[Martins Paparinskis, DPhil (Oxon), is a Lecturer in Law at the University College London.] This post is part of the HILJ Online Symposium: Volumes 54(2) & 55(1). Other posts in this series can be found in the related posts below. I am grateful to the UCL LLM class of International Law of Foreign Investment for clarifying my thinking on some of these matters. A natural reaction to such an elegant and erudite article is to offer unqualified praise to its author. While not easily, this reaction should be resisted, as...
01 May Beyond Territoriality: Symposium on Jurisdictional “Hooks” for (Extraterritorial) Human Rights Obligations – Human Rights Relationships Across Borders in the Triple Planetary Crisis
...would avoid framing these scenarios as raising extraterritoriality concerns, and instead adopt terminology that draws attention to the relationships at issue, such as ‘transnational’ regulation. After all, transnational or multinational corporate enterprises are not typically described as extraterritorial corporations. As explored by Caroline Omari Lichuma in this symposium, the relational approach extends well to human rights and environmental due diligence legislative initiatives. Moreover, it could inform the reach of corporate due diligence understood as a direct obligation under international law, as advocated in this symposium by Gamze Erdem Türkelli. Questions...
22 Mar SCSL Symposium: The Important Contributions of the Special Court for Sierra Leone on Amnesties and Immunities–Reinforcing Foundational Principles of International Criminal Law, Part I
[Leila Nadya Sadat is the James Carr Professor of International Criminal Law and the Director of the Whitney R. Harris World Law Institute at the Washington University School of Law. sadat@wustl.edu. This essay was initially prepared at the request of FIU Law Review for its micro-symposium on The Legal Legacy of the Special Court for Sierra Leone by Charles C. Jalloh (Cambridge, 2020). An edited and footnoted version is forthcoming in Volume 15.1 of the law review in spring 2021.] The book that is the centerpiece of this micro-symposium, The...02 Apr HILJ Online Symposium: Greg Shill Responds to Christopher Whytock
[Greg Shill is a Visiting Assistant Professor at the University of Denver Sturm College of Law.] This post is part of the HILJ Online Symposium: Volumes 54(2) & 55(1). Other posts in this series can be found in the related posts below. I thank Professor Christopher Whytock for engaging with the ideas in my article, Ending Judgment Arbitrage: Jurisdictional Competition and the Enforcement of Foreign Money Judgments in the United States, 54 Harv. Int’l L.J. 459 (2013), and the Harvard International Law Journal and Opinio Juris for hosting this symposium....22 Jul American Journal of International Law Symposium Starts Today
We are pleased to host the American Journal of International Law on-line symposium on the lead articles of the new issue of the AJIL, which were written by Leila Sadat (Washington University) and Eyal Benvenisti (Tel Aviv University). Today and tomorrow there will be a discussion of Leila Sadat‘s article, Crimes Against Humanity in the Modern Age. The précis of her piece explains that: This article analyzes the centrality of crimes against humanity prosecutions to the International Criminal Court’s fulfillment of its mandate to prevent and punish atrocities committed in...02 Feb The Legitimacy of Western Views of Human Rights: The Barnes Symposium at the University of South Carolina
I will speaking tomorrow at the Barnes Symposium held at the University of South Carolina Law School. The symposium as a whole will discuss the legitimacy of western views of human rights and will have participants from all over the world, both in person and via video conference (a list of speakers is found here). I myself will focus on my little piece of this conversation – the use of international human rights treaties to interpret the U.S. Constitution. If we have any (friendly) readers in the USC community, I...23 Aug Online Symposium: Conclusion
Many thanks to Eric Posner and Adrian Vermeule for agreeing to participate in this online symposium about their book “Terror in the Balance.” As Julian put it, “their analysis is helpful for advancing the debate over balancing national security and individual rights” and may well “inspire critics to shift their efforts from complaining about the current administration and executive power and toward a thoughtful defense of the alternative.” Thanks are also in order to our guest contributors Louis Fisher and Bobby Chesney, as well as our own permanent contributors Kevin...
07 Jun Symposium on Reproductive Violence in International Law: Beyond Sexual – Reproductive and Obstetric Violence in Russia’s Aggression against Ukraine
[Kateryna Busol is a Ukrainian lawyer and an Associate Professor at the National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy] 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 reproductive autonomy. The symposium complements a one-day conference to be held on 11 June 2024, in which legal practitioners, scholars, activists, and survivors will meet in The Hague and online to share knowledge and strategies for addressing...