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18 Jun Berman Book Discussion: Paul Berman’s “Global Legal Pluralism”
We’re delighted this week to host a discussion of Paul Schiff Berman’s “Global Legal Pluralism: A Jurisprudence of Law Beyond Borders” (Cambridge University Press). Paul is the Dean and Robert Kramer Research Professor of Law at George Washington University Law School. This is a rich and broadly argued book (Paul confesses to being a “lumper,” I think in the best sense). From the jacket: We live in a world of legal pluralism, where a single act or actor is potentially regulated by multiple legal or quasi-legal regimes imposed by state,...02 Dec Extraterritorial Application of Human Rights Treaties: An Overview
I am very grateful for the opportunity to discuss my book on EJIL: Talk! and Opinio Juris, as am I grateful to the commentators on both blogs for taking the time to read and discuss it. In this introductory post I’ll try to outline the book’s main arguments and themes and my approach generally in analysing a very complex topic. The book is divided into five chapters. The first, introductory chapter sets out the scope and purpose of the whole study. It defines the notion of the extraterritorial application of...17 Feb Dubinsky on The Death of Treaty Supremacy
the increasingly broad and deep scope of international law. Others in this symposium have discussed the book’s value in terms of its historical analysis, constitutional interpretation, and its practical value to human rights litigators. As this on-line symposium draws to a close, it is important to note that the Death of Treaty Supremacy opens up new avenues for research. For example, David Stewart observes that “the story of our Constitution is largely one of judicial adaptation and reinterpretation in light of changed circumstances.” In response to the book’s “problem []...02 Feb Greenburg: “Bush Will Not Get Another Supreme Court Appointment”
her book. As Jonathan Varat said yesterday, it’s hard to imagine that a book about the Supreme Court could be a page turner, but this one is. Indeed, right now it is one of the top fifty books for sale on Amazon. UPDATE: You can watch the Pepperdine book presentation here. It features Jan Crawford Greenburg and includes commentary about her book by Jesse Choper (Boalt Hall), Jonathan Varat (UCLA), Ken Starr (Pepperdine) and Doug Kmiec (Pepperdine). Her comment that President Bush will not get another Supreme Court appointment is...02 Mar OUP/OJ Book Club, Richard Gardiner’s Treaty Interpretation
As I mentioned last week, we’re pleased to host Richard Gardiner (University College London) for the next three days for a discussion of his book, Treaty Interpretation. In addition to comments by our regular contributors, we’ve invited several distinguished treaty experts to respond to his work, including Isabelle van Damme (Clare College, Cambridge), Malgosia Fitzmaurice (University of London, Queen Mary), and Jan Klabbers (Helsinki). Some of our guest experts will be commenting on the book itself, others may choose to comment on the comments. In either case, we’re looking forward...24 May Book Discussion “Outsourcing War and Peace”: Laura Dickinson responds to Stanger, Pearlstein, Walker, Horton and Borgen
[Laura Dickinson is the Oswald Symister Colclough Research Professor of Law at the George Washington University Law School in Washington DC.] This is the final 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. Thank you all for your insightful comments and for engaging in such a productive debate about this difficult issue. I have just a few additional thoughts. Allison Stanger raises the important question of whether...
14 Jan What Domestic Lawyers Can Learn from International Law About Remedies
[Kent Roach, CM, FRSC is Professor of Law at the University of Toronto and the author of 15 books including Remedies for Human Rights Violations: A Two-Track Approach to Supra-National and National Law (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2021).] I am grateful to Kristen Boon for her thoughtful engagement with my new book and the remedial dilemmas that she poses and examines. This confirms my sense as someone who has studied and litigated remedies for human rights violations in domestic law that domestic lawyers have much to learn from international lawyers...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...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....