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16 Oct Book Discussion Informal International Lawmaking: Conceptual Approaches
...what legal regime, if any, is applicable to them. This, in turn, leads to the third connotation of “informal”: the sense, real or perceived, that it dispenses with or circumvents the formal strictures, controls and accountability mechanisms of formal law. This goes to the heart of IN-LAW: Even though it may be a more effective way of solving cross-border problems, is it, ultimately, an end-run on democracy (more on this by Jan in a third post)? Part I of the book offers conceptual approaches to IN-LAW from different perspectives: legal...28 Jan Ben Wittes’ New Book, ‘Detention and Denial’
OJ’s friend and frequent interlocutor, Ben Wittes (of Lawfare blog, the Brookings Institution, and member of the Hoover Task Force on National Security and Law), has a new book out of Brookings Institution Press, Detention and Denial: The Case for Candor after Guantanamo. It has been out since late December, but I just got a chance to finish reading it. I’m a huge fan, which will surprise no one familiar with my thinking about Ben’s work as well as about Guantanamo policy. Detention policy fatigue has set in and positions...27 Jul Book Discussion: Kal Raustiala’s “Does the Constitution Follow the Flag?”
Opinio Juris is pleased to be hosting over the next three days a discussion of Professor Kal Raustiala’s new book, “Does the Constitution Follow the Flag? The Evolution of Territoriality in American Law” (OUP 2009). Professor Raustiala is a professor of law at UCLA and also director of the UCLA Ronald W. Burkle Center for International Relations. He has written broadly in both international law and international relations, and this outstanding new book reflects his deep engagement in both fields: In this novel history of territoriality in American law and...13 Jul Technology, Speech, Hate, Virtuality … and the Path of the Law
[Mark A. Drumbl is the Class of 1975 Alumni Professor of Law and Director, Transnational Law Institute at Washington and Lee University.] Atrocity Speech Law is a hefty book. It is, as Professor Gordon himself describes it, a ‘tome’. Atrocity Speech Law is rigorous and ambitious: packed with information, breathtakingly detailed, brimming with integrity, and vivified by important themes of law reform. In contrast to the absurd invective it seeks to deter, Gregory’s arguments are measured and modulated, poised and principled. Although Gregory has invested so much in this book,...04 Jan OUP/OJ Book Discussion — When Cooperation Fails: The International Law and Politics of Genetically Modified Foods
Tommorrow, Opinio Juris is pleased to host a one-day discussion of the new book by Gregory Shaffer and Mark Pollack, When Cooperation Fails: The International Law and Politics of Genetically Modified Foods (Oxford, 2009). Sungjoon Cho and Rebecca Bratspies will join us with guest commentary. For those interested in joining what promises to be a great discussion, here’s the abstract: The transatlantic dispute over genetically modified organisms (GMOs) has brought into conflict the United States and the European Union, two long-time allies and economically interdependent democracies with a long record...18 May Book Discussion “Outsourcing War and Peace”: Contractor Accountability as a Barrier to SOFAs
[Scott Horton is a Contributing Editor of Harper’s Magazine and a Lecturer-in-Law at Columbia Law School.] This is the fourth day in our discussion of Professor Dickinson’s book Outsourcing War and Peace: Preserving Public Values in a World of Privatized Foreign Affairs. Links to the related posts can be found below. It’s useful generally to turn the accountability issue on its head and to view the question from the sovereign’s perspective. Laura’s book takes a view of this question largely from the perspective of a single sovereign, the United States....07 Feb The Parochialism of Western Cosmopolitanism in a Competitive World Order
[Professor Anthea Roberts of Australian National University is the author of numerous publications, including the topic of our joint symposium this week: Is International Law International? This is the first of several posts over the next two days on the argument in her book and reactions to it.] We are familiar with the question: Is international law law? In my new book, I ask instead: Is international law international? Not particularly, is my answer—at least, not in the way that it tends to be conceptualized by international law academics in...03 Sep Eric Posner’s New Book Is Out
more about it and, who knows, perhaps OJ should have a mini-symposium or some such. (While I am noting Eric-related things, he has a new comment up at Volokh commenting on Duncan’s earlier question here at OJ about 1Ls taking public international law, and to which he says an emphatic ‘no’.) Here is the book description from Amazon: The first months of the Obama administration have led to expectations, both in the United States and abroad, that in the coming years America will increasingly promote the international rule of law—a...
13 Jul Intervention in Civil Wars Symposium: A Tour de Force on Intervention in Civil Wars by Chiara Redaelli
scholarly attention. Concluding thoughts Chiara deserves all the praise coming to her for writing such an accessible, comprehensive and well-researched tome on Intervention in Civil Wars. The book does not shy away from taking strong positions on perennial discussions among international lawyers and develops a sophisticated argument that nicely ties together her research conclusions. It will become mandatory reading for all international lawyers trying to wrap their heads around this complex topic. But do not take my word for it. Buy and read her book, you will not regret it!...19 Jun Berman Book Discussion: International Law That Actually Matters
[David Zaring is Assistant Professor of Legal Studies and Business Ethics at the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School] This post is part of our symposium on Dean Schiff Berman’s book Global Legal Pluralism. Other posts can be found in Related Posts below. Paul Berman is rethinking the global legal system with reference to both the plurality and the narrowness of modern community. That is, although we are subjects of a state, international law is driven often by the relationships that have little to do with borders or the usual blood...