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09 Sep

...on stories that concern powerful individuals, are novel or surprising, or contain an element of controversy or conflict. By alleging that western political figures are complicit in genocide and warrant investigation at the ICC, the complicity communications invoke these dimensions of newsworthiness to attract the public’s attention. However, the strategic use of Article 15 communications is not without its controversies. For example, when individuals and organisations make a communication and invoke international criminal law in response to mass violence, this might problematically inflate victims’ expectations that a legal response from...
09.09.24 | |

26 Jan

The Virginia Journal of International Law is delighted to continue its partnership with Opinio Juris this week in this online symposium featuring three articles recently published by VJIL in Vol. 49:2, available here . On Tuesday, Professor Vlad Perju of the Boston College Law School will discuss his article Reason and Authority in the European Court of Justice . Professor Perju’s article proposes a new vision for the European judiciary by presenting the striking case for politicizing the judicial discourse of the European Court of Justice. Contrary to the prevailing...
26.01.09 | |

26 May

This summer we will host our fifth Emerging Voices symposium, where we invite doctoral students, early-career academics and practicing lawyers to tell Opinio Juris readers about a research project or other international law topic of interest. If you are a doctoral student or in the early stages of your career (e.g., post-docs, junior academics or early-career practitioners within the first five years of finishing your final degree) and would like to participate in the symposium, please send a draft blog post somewhere between 1000-1500 words and your CV to opiniojurisblog...
26.05.19 | |

10 Sep

...Anne Orford’s re-reading of Foucault’s genealogical methodology, “making visible those things that are already visible”. This concept of visibility in ICL – and the praxis of making its central struggles visible – is a guiding theme to our contribution to a recent symposium in the Journal of International Criminal Justice (JICJ). What is called for in this post-critical moment, we argue, are methodological and conceptual experiments that centre the discursive and material embodiments of ICL common sense, as well as its contestation in various contexts. Abandoning  the search for deep...
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24 Feb

Out here at the University of Missouri-Columbia we are hosting a symposium this weekend (Feb. 25-26), “Reflections on Judging: A Discussion Following the Release of the Blackmun Papers.” The line-up of speakers includes judges (Duane Benton, 8th Circuit, Colleen McMahon, SDNY), scholars (Suzanna Sherry, Dan Farber, Ellen Deason, Ted Ruger, Greg Sisk, Larry Wrightsman, Joseph Kobylka, Chris Wells, Martha Dragich, Richard Reuben) and at least one Supreme Court watcher, Tony Mauro, discussing Blackmun’s legacy, what we mean by judging, and what makes for “good” or “bad” judges. Full details are...
24.02.05 | |

13 Oct

The Virginia Journal of International Law is delighted to continue its partnership with Opinio Juris this week in this online symposium featuring three articles recently published by VJIL in Vol. 49:1, available here. On Tuesday, James Hathaway, Dean of the Melbourne Law School, will discuss his article, The Human Rights Quagmire of “Human Trafficking”. Dean Hathaway’s article takes a critical look at the international community’s recent efforts to fight human trafficking through the Trafficking Protocol. Hathaway argues that the international fight against human trafficking is more fundamentally in tension with...
13.10.08 | |

16 Apr

It covers a number of areas, such as the material turn in legal history, the diverse ontology of objects, bio-colonialism and cultural extractivism, the construction of social identities through discourses on restitution, the relevance of transitional justice concepts to return of cultural objects or human remains (e.g., access to justice, truth-finding memorialization), and perspectives of affected communities on restitution processes. It brings together voices by established academics and emerging scholars, accommodates diverse perspectives and brings experiences from different regions (Africa, Latin America, Asia). The symposium consists of a number of...
16.04.24 | |

16 Sep

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:...
16.09.19 | |

18 May

[Chris Carpenter is a lawyer and researcher in international law. She holds a J.D. from the University of Pennsylvania Law School and a master’s from the University of Cambridge.] This piece is about imposter syndrome, which I encountered in beginning my master’s at the University of Cambridge. When I submitted an abstract for this symposium, countless memories spanning almost a decade in higher education sprung to mind: sexual harassment from faculty, the blatant sexism of an interviewer when applying to law school, the experience of sitting in constitutional law classes...
18.05.22 | |

12 Nov

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....
12.11.12 | |

02 Apr

[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....
02.04.14 | |

25 Jul

[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...
25.07.13 | |