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19 Sep Organizing Rebellion Symposium: The Second-Fiddle Perpetrators–Non-State Génocidaires
[Melanie O’Brien, Senior Lecturer in International Law, University of Western Australia, is an award-winning IHL teacher and Vice-President of the International Association of Genocide Scholars. Her research focuses on genocide and human rights. This is the latest post in the co-hosted symposium with Armed Groups and International Law on Organizing Rebellion .] Tilman Rodenhäuser’s book analyses non-state armed groups in international humanitarian law (IHL), human rights law and international criminal law (ICL). Rodenhäuser is ideally placed to consider this topic, with a background of having worked for NGO Geneva Call...11 May Symposium on Israeli Settlements
AJIL Unbound has just posted the contributions to a symposium entitled “Revisiting Israel’s Settlements.” The contributors are all superb: Eyal Benvenisti, Pnina Sharvit Baruch, David Kretzmer, Adam Roberts, Omar M. Dajani, and Yaël Ronen. The true highlight, though, is the essay that accompanies the symposium and will be published in the next issue of the American Journal of International Law: Theodor Meron’s “The West Bank and International Humanitarian Law on the Eve of the Fiftieth Anniversary of the Six-Day War,” which can be downloaded for free. Meron’s essay revisits the...
22 Aug Symposium on The Sentimental Life of International Law: Introduction
I am delighted to announce that this week Opinio Juris will be hosting a symposium on Gerry Simpson‘s wonderful new book “The Sentimental Life of International Law.” Here is Oxford University Press’s description: The Sentimental Life of International Law is about our age-old longing for a decent international society and the ways of seeing, being, and speaking that might help us achieve that aim. This book asks how international lawyers might engage in a professional practice that has become, to adapt a title of Janet Malcolm’s, both difficult and impossible....
17 Apr Symposium on International Conflict and Security Law: A Research Handbook – Introduction
[Dr. Sergey Sayapin is Professor at KIMEP University´s School of Law (Almaty, Kazakhstan).] On behalf of the editors, let me thank Opinio Juris for kindly hosting this book review symposium on International Conflict and Security Law: A Research Handbook. Our sincere thanks are due to Professor Kevin Jon Heller, Ms Ameera Ismail, Ms Aphiwan Natasha King, and the entire Editorial team at Opinio Juris for their excellent support. We were lucky to assemble an outstanding team of 64 contributors representing all major legal systems of the world and literally all...
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...12 Nov The Oxford Guide to Treaties Symposium: Evidence of “Secondary” Fragmentation
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....14 Apr Virginia Journal of International Law, Vol. 49-3: Online Symposium
in the broader international literature as to how streamlined criminal proceedings play into a larger transition towards an adversarial system. Lewis examines the sea change in Taiwan’s criminal justice system and the lessons that it offers to three audiences. Nigel Li and Professor Jaw-perng Wang will serve as respondents. Li is a prominent lawyer and legal scholar in Taiwan and Jaw-perng Wang is a professor of law at National Taiwan University. We encourage you to join in the discussion online this week. When the symposium concludes, we hope that you...
03 May Soldier Self-Defense Symposium: Self-Defense in Armed Conflicts–The Babel Tower Phenomenon
means that the overlap between self-defence and IHL is greatly reduced compared to the “jus ad bellum approach” under (a). For instance, the use of force by an enemy combatant in an international armed conflict is lawful and therefore the use of force in response would only be governed by IHL; the criminal law concept of self-defence cannot justify the use of force in response. It is however unclear whether the same is true in relation to the use of force by a civilian directly participating in hostilities or a...
07 Jun Symposium on Reproductive Violence in International Law: Reproductive Violence Against the Rohingya – A Perspective on Myanmar
[ Wai Wai Nu , originally from Myanmar, is the Founder and Executive Director of the Women’s Peace Network. Grant Shubin is a Senior Legal Advisor with the Global Justice Center.] 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...
06 Jun Symposium on Reproductive Violence in International Law: Glimpses of Reproductive Violence in the ECCC – Forced Breeding, Destruction of Maternal Healthcare, and ‘Ritualcide’
[ Boravin Tann is a researcher and lecturer at the Center for the Study of Humanitarian Law based at the Royal University of Law and Economics (RULE), Cambodia. Rosemary Grey is a Senior Lecturer at Sydney Law School, The University of Sydney.] 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...