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09 Aug Call for Papers: Third Annual Symposium on Pop Culture & International Law
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...
24 Oct 2nd Annual International Law & Pop Culture Symposium: Introduction
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...
20 Jul Symposium on Cyber, International Law and Artificial Intelligence in Armed Conflict: Legal Reviews of Military AI – Essential but Insufficient
...Conflict (CyCon) (see earlier post) and have since developed that analysis into a book chapter, forthcoming in the volume International Law and Artificial Intelligence in Armed Conflict: The AI–Cyber Interplay (see the introduction to this symposium). This post explains our central finding: that legal reviews of military AI capabilities are essential, but that on their own they are insufficient. Legal reviews are essential for two reasons: they are required by international law, and, in the absence of an international verification regime, they operate as a confidence-building measure. They are insufficient...
01 Apr COVID-19 Symposium: COVID-19 Responses and State Obligations Concerning the Right to Health (Part 1)
that connection, assessing whether State responses to COVID-19 are human rights compliant also involves an assessment as to whether they respect, protect and fulfill the right to health, not to mention the right to life. Although an issue not treated in this post, we would note that the tensions between measures to address this public health emergency and human rights, observed by commentators in this symposium and elsewhere, may also potentially give rise to conflict between different rights. In Part 1 of this post we address the general obligation of...09 Apr LJIL Symposium Vol 26-1: Introduction
[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...
21 Jun Symposium: Civil Liability Claims for Business-Related Human Rights Abuses – Opening New Frontiers
...academia and legal practice to participate in the online symposium to discuss the wider implications of recent civil liability developments in the law and policymaking of corporate responsibility to respect human rights and identify the remaining gaps in the law. The first part of the symposium featured two webinars on the scope of the parent company’s duty of care and access to justice barriers in civil litigation. The organisers are grateful to the speakers and the audience for the engaging and knowledgeable discussions and thorough analysis of the underlying issues...
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...