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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...
07 Sep Symposium: The 2nd Revised Draft of a Treaty on Business and Human Rights–Moving (Slowly) in the Right Direction
...ICJ has convened the blog symposium that starts with the present blog. Having a well-structured and conceptually coherent draft is an essential component of an international negotiation, but it is not everything. Like its predecessor, the 2019 Draft, the 2020 Revised version of the treaty is a positive step that contains welcome improvements that could be debated in a substantive intergovernmental negotiation. But, it is well known that so far there has been limited amount of negotiation among a critical mass of States, with some of what has taken place...28 Jun YJIL Symposium: Howse and Langille Respond to Comments on Permitting Pluralism
clarify our claims. We have also had the benefit of their own thinking and writing on this case in preparing our article. Finally, we would like to thank YJIL for organizing this Symposium. Response to Professor Perisin: Professor Perisin first suggests that the aim of the EU seal products ban is to protect the fox and mink industries within the EU. This raises the issue of how one ascertains whether the aim (or motive) of a measure is protectionist for purposes of WTO law. It would be helpful to understand...
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...
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...
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...
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....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...
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...
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...