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14 Sep China, Taiwan and International Law: A Symposium in Honor of Professor Hungdah Chiu
...after I entered the legal academy). In any event, I will be participating in this symposium by sharing some of my recent research on China and international courts. But there are much better reasons to attend as well. See below. The program will kick off October 5, 2011 at 5:30pm in the Ceremonial Courtroom at UM Carey Law with a lecture delivered by the senior American expert in East Asian law, Professor Jerome Cohen, followed up on October 6 by a lunchtime lecture by the former Chairman of the National...
25 Sep Symposium Exploring the Crime of Ecocide: Accountability for Environmental Destruction–Ecocide in National and International Law (Part I)
[Tarini Mehta is Assistant Professor of Environmental Law, Assistant Dean of Student Affairs and Director of the Environmental Law and Science Advocacy Forum at Jindal School of Environment & Sustainability, O.P. Jindal Global University, India.] [This symposium was convened by Shirleen Chin, founder of Green Transparency. Shirleen was inspired by attending an Expert Working Group on international criminal law and the protection of the environment at the Promise Institute for Human Rights at UCLA School of Law in Spring 2020. See here for the original Opinio Juris symposium which emerged...
27 Oct International Law and Popular Culture Symposium: International Law and the Theatre – An Interview with Playwright Anchuli Felicia King
[Anchuli Felicia King is a playwright, screenwriter and multidisciplinary artist of Thai‑Australian descent, whose plays have previously been produced at the Royal Court, Studio Theatre and Sydney Theatre Company.] In a symposium about international law and popular culture, it would be remiss for us at Opinio Juris not to solicit contributions from the other side of the divide – that is, from those making said “popular culture” and how they perceive the relationship between their art and international law. For this blog post, we conducted an interview with Anchuli Felicia...
24 Sep Symposium Exploring the Crime of Ecocide: Rights of Nature and Ecocide
[Anastacia Greene is an Immigration Clinical Fellow with the Intimate Partner Violence Assistance Clinic (IPVAC) at the Levin College of Law.] [This symposium was convened by Shirleen Chin, founder of Green Transparency. Shirleen was inspired by attending an Expert Working Group on international criminal law and the protection of the environment at the Promise Institute for Human Rights at UCLA School of Law in Spring 2020. See here for the original Opinio Juris symposium which emerged from that meeting.] Rights of Nature Legal Theory The “Rights of Nature” theory recognizes...23 Jul Symposium on Mann, Humanity at Sea
I’m delighted to call readers attention to a symposium next week on my friend Itamar Mann’s new book, Humanity at Sea: Maritime Migration and the Foundations of International Law, which was just published by Cambridge University Press. Here is the 411: This interdisciplinary study engages law, history, and political theory in a first attempt to crystallize the lessons the global ‘refugee crisis’ can teach us about the nature of international law. It connects the dots between the actions of Jewish migrants to Palestine after WWII, Vietnamese ‘boatpeople’, Haitian refugees seeking...
24 Sep Symposium Exploring the Crime of Ecocide: Can Deforestation Amount to Ecocide?
[Shirleen Chin is the Head of Advocacy & Strategic Partnerships for the Stop Ecocide Foundation , based in The Hague, that runs the “Stop Ecocide: Change the Law ” Campaign.] [This symposium was convened by Shirleen, who was inspired by attending an Expert Working Group on international criminal law and the protection of the environment at the Promise Institute for Human Rights at UCLA School of Law in Spring 2020. See here for the original Opinio Juris symposium which emerged from that meeting.] In July 2019, President Jair Bolsonaro of Brazil said, “Brazil...
23 Sep Symposium Exploring the Crime of Ecocide: Climate Change Crisis in the Pacific–What Role Can International Criminal Law Play?
[Dr. Joseph D. Foukona is a Pacific Law and History Scholar, an Assistant Professor at the University of Hawaii Manoa.] [This symposium was convened by Shirleen Chin, founder of Green Transparency. Shirleen was inspired by attending an Expert Working Group on international criminal law and the protection of the environment at the Promise Institute for Human Rights at UCLA School of Law in Spring 2020. See here for the original Opinio Juris symposium which emerged from that meeting.] Pacific Island countries remain vulnerable to climate change crisis amid the global...16 Jan Symposium on Asia and International Law
The forthcoming issue of the European Journal of International Law will feature an article by Professor Simon Chesterman, the Dean of the National University of Singapore’s Faculty of Law, entitled Asia’s Ambivalence About International Law and Institutions: Past, Present and Futures. This week, Opinio Juris and EJILTalk will hold a joint symposium on the two blogs on Professor Chesterman’s article. The article’s abstract explains: Asian states are the least likely of any regional grouping to be party to most international obligations or to have representation reflecting their number and size...
16 Apr Symposium on Confronting Colonial Objects: Introduction
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...29 Mar Symposium: Cogan Reply to Pauwelyn
[Jacob Cogan is Assitant Professor of Law at the University of Cincinnati and a contributor to the Opinio Juris On-line Symposium] My thanks to Professor Joost Pauwelyn for his thoughtful comments, to Opinio Juris for inviting me to participate in this online symposium, and to the Yale Journal of International Law for publishing my essay on Noncompliance and the International Rule of Law. In the essay, I argue that noncompliance is a necessary component of the international legal system. In so doing, I take issue with the majority view of...