Search: Affective Justice: Book Symposium: A Response

There are a few anniversaries of note in 2022, which should prompt us to deeper conversations and more concerted action. It is the 10th anniversary of the forced Rohingya exodus from Myanmar, with 25 August marking the 5th Rohingya Genocide Remembrance Day. This year also marks the 20th anniversary of the entry into force of the Rome Statute, which established the International Criminal Court. This year, the intention of this symposium hosted by the Asia Justice Coalition and Opinio Juris is to bring renewed international attention to the growing and...

We hope you enjoyed this first Opinio Juris/LJIL Online Symposium. For those who want to prolong these debates in real life, while waiting for the next online symposium, the Leiden Journal of International Law (LJIL) will celebrate its 25th anniversary on 30 March 2012 during the American Society of International Law’s Annual Meeting. The journal will host a casual roundtable discussion featuring two articles in its latest and forthcoming issues, followed by Q&A and a cocktail reception. Here’s the programme: Introduction by LJIL editors-in-chief, Leiden Law Professor Larissa van den...

[Dov Jacobs is the Senior Editor for Expert Blogging at the Leiden Journal of International Law and Assistant Professor of International Law at Leiden University] This symposium launches our second year of collaboration with Opinio Juris, which we hope to be as fruitful as the first in combining the in-depth discussions that arise in the Leiden Journal of International Law with the dynamic online community of the blogosphere. In order to start the new year with a bang, we bring you, from Volume 26-1 of LJIL, two discussions of fundamental...

[Kjetil Mujezinović Larsen is Professor of Law, Director of Research, and Deputy Director, at the Norwegian Centre for Human Rights at the University of Oslo. He is the author of «The Human Rights Treaty Obligations of Peacekeepers» (Cambridge, 2012). This post is a part of the Protection of Civilians Symposium.] By way of introduction, let me state that I agree with Marten’s analysis of the legal obligations of peacekeepers. Therefore, rather than rehearsing the arguments raised by the other contributors to this Symposium, I want to address a concrete issue...

Over the coming ten days, along with the fantastic Armed Groups and International Law blog, we are happy to co-host a book symposium on Tilman Rodenhäuser’s new book, Organizing Rebellion: Non-State Armed Groups under International Humanitarian Law, Human Rights Law and International Criminal Law, published by Oxford University Press. In addition to comments from Tilman himself, we have the honor to hear from this list of renowned scholars and practitioners: Marco Sassòli, Katharine Fortin, Laurie Blank, Ezequiel Heffes, Daragh Murray, Melanie O’Brien, Mathias Holvoet, Sareta Ashraph, and Adejoke Babington-Ashaye. From the publisher:...

volume looked at a number of different secondary rules in the law of treaties and the law of state responsibility, to determine whether there was evidence of specific secondary rules present in non-proliferation law that depart from or conflict with general international legal rules, or with specific secondary rules present in other special regimes. See the info on the book at the CUP website here: http://www.cambridge.org/gb/knowledge/isbn/item6857823/?site_locale=en_GB You can also read some of the intro to the book here: http://www.cambridge.org/servlet/file/store6/item7092793/version1/9781107009714_excerpt.pdf Judge Simma gave the book a really nice back cover endorsement....

We are delighted to introduce the second online symposium issue of the Melbourne Journal of International Law hosted by Opinio Juris. This week will feature three pieces published in our most recent issue — issue 11(1). The issue was generalist in its focus and saw articles on topics as diverse as the law of space tourism, the right to cross-examine prosecution witnesses in international criminal courts and the nature of legal inquiry in the Mekong River basin. Three of the authors published in 11(1) will be contributing to this online...

Time for more self promotion… I will be speaking at a symposium being held this Friday, March 24 at my alma mater the Yale Law School on “The Most Dangerous Branch? Mayors, Governors, Presidents and the Rule of Law”. The symposium is about more than foreign affairs, but the foreign affairs component alone is pretty impressive (I’m not just saying this because of the well-known figures who will be participating, but because I’ve also seen the papers already). For a short preview of some of the foreign affairs issues we...

no record of those who submitted abstracts, save for the ones I committed to memory. For this mishap, I apologise. Blunders happen, of course, but it’s vexing when we appear cavalier with this topic, especially since we had received several invaluable abstracts. We are thus re-issuing our call for submissions for the symposium on racism and sexism in legal academia with revised dates (and a different submission email!). The team at Opinio Juris remains committed to running a stimulating symposium that helps us collectively reflect upon and tackle the oppressions...

[José Alvarez is the Herbert and Rose Rubin Professor of International Law at New York University School of Law and is the Co-Editor-in-Chief (along with Benedict Kingsbury) of the American Journal of International Law] As the new co-editor in chief of the AJIL, I, along with my co-EIC, Benedict Kingsbury, are very grateful to Chris Borgen and Opinio Juris for hosting this on-line symposium on the Journal’s April 2013 issue. We also thank the two authors, Eyal Benvenisti and Leila Sadat, for exposing themselves to this trial by fire. It...

It’s back! The editorial team at Opinio Juris is pleased to announce the call for papers for our Third Annual Symposium on Pop Culture and International Law.  We welcome pitches of up to 300 words on any topic relating to international law and popular culture (film, tv, books, video games, or more–get creative!). To be considered, please submit your pitch via email to Alonso Gurmendi and Sarah Zarmsky at s.zarmsky@essex.ac.uk by Friday 25 August 2023 at 17:00 UK time. Decisions will be communicated by 1 September 2023.  If selected, the...

For the average (Western) person, October might be synonymous with Halloween, but for us at Opinio Juris, October has now become International Law and Pop Culture Month. As readers may remember, last year we hosted the first edition of this symposium, in collaboration with our friend Rachel Jones, with great success. Back then, we set out rather ambitious objectives: “[W]e hope to imagine alternatives of what the world could be, offering many possible alternative visions of human beings, law, and justice; engage with students by making connections between popular culture...