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06 Aug Complementarity, Catalysts, Compliance Symposium: Why Catalysis is the Wrong Metaphor
...idea is never really examined in the earlier sections, which are structured as inquiries into top-down court-catalyzed influence. Given the high quality of De Vos’ writing and analysis, given the rigor of the case studies, and given the compelling conclusion of his book in which he reconceives international justice as a plural, multi-cited project with influence flowing in many directions, one looks forward to his next book. Perhaps that one could start with De Vos’ concluding insights and examine how courts, too, changes in response to interactions with other actors....05 Oct New Article on Reid v. Covert, and My Question re Extraterritoriality and the Constitution
...here at OJ in an extensive series of posts when it was published in 2009; the other discussion I’ve looked at is Bobby Chesney’s article on targeting Awlaki, but it is focused on international law questions.) Yet that book does not directly take up the Awlaki question, either. In large part, this is because it is a book about the effect of territoriality, and control of territory, on Constitutional application. Written before targeted killing was on the table of public debate, Kal’s book addressed an important, but separate question, the...
14 Feb Symposium on Rewriting Histories of the Use of Force: On “Unproblematic Eurocentrism” and the Rewriting of International Law
...the other” and makes express reference to the fact that the selection of these manuals factored three criteria: “impact, chronology and geography”. In terms of impact, “[c]are was taken to include the most influential textbooks”, like Wheaton, Bluntschli, Calvo, Martens and Oppenheim. Chronologically, the book covers a century, between 1815 and 1914. In terms of geography, the book covers manuals from England, France, Germany, Italy, Spain, Russia, the United States, Argentina, Peru, and Bolivia (pp. 16-17). It is these criteria for inclusion that spark most of my questions and hesitations....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....