Search: Affective Justice: Book Symposium: A Response
17 May A Response to Dianne Otto by Gina Heathcote
book, The Law on the Use of Force: a Feminist Analysis (Routledge, 2011) where I argue: A prescriptive analogy assumes the correlation of domestic legal categories with international legal categories and, therefore, explains international legal justifications for violence by drawing upon domestic legal justifications for violence. In contrast, the conceptual analysis developed in this book does not assume the sameness of international and domestic legal structures instead, it seeks, to expose concepts developed in Western domestic legal orders that are assumed to exist in the international legal system. . ....03 Apr The US’s New Nuclear Posture Review: Blurring the Lines of Anticipatory Self-Defense
...a ‘means-end proportionality’ approach with the focus on restoring state’s defensive capacity, it is possible for a nuclear strike to be lawful, even if not commensurate to anticipated attack. To this end, the NPR implicitly assumes that a limited nuclear strike could be less destructive than a large scale conventional response. The employment of tactical nuclear weapons, which allow for the precise targeting, could be justified as a measure to halt the imminent attack, which, if occurring, would require much more destructive a response. It leaves us though with the...31 Jul The Specific Costs of Arbitrary Detention and Torture: A Response to Eugene Kontorovich
[Ariel Meyerstein received his J.D. from Boalt Hall (2006) and is currently a PhD candidate, Jurisprudence and Social Policy Program. His recent scholarship includes, “Between Law and Culture: Rwanda’s Gacaca and Postcolonial Legality,” 32 Law and Social Inquiry 467-508 (2007), “Transitional Justice and Post-Conflict Israel/Palestine: Assessing the Applicability of the Truth Commission Paradigm,” 38 Case Western Reserve Journal of International Law 281 (2007), “The Law (and Lawyers) as Enemy Combatant(s),” University of Florida Journal of Law and Public Policy (forthcoming).] In this reply, I do not want to take on...20 Oct YJIL Symposium: Response to Mark Wu
Anupam Chander I am grateful to Mark Wu for penning a thoughtful response to some of the ideas in “Trade 2.0.” I am fortunate to have such an expert commentator. Wu agrees with my aims, but worries that the political will may be lacking to effect my proposals. He also offers four other hurdles to implementation. I consider each concern below, beginning (in the interest of easy cross-reference) with the one he labels “first,” and concluding with a response to the political will objection. First, Wu is concerned that GATS...15 Jan Armed Conflict With Al Qaida?
...have had to correct some of them). I would like to comment that this approach to interacting with a member of one's government is very troubling to me. Essentially, I am receiving carefully developed position papers that seek to sound eminently reasonable from Mr. Bellinger to which a response is sought. Points that are immediately relevant are deferred to later in the week, yet I fully expect that they will not be addressed. I suspect that certain points have been included in this first post so that if a response...
07 Apr COVID-19 Symposium: Quantum Leaps of International Law
...a gradual linear way. These developmental shifts occur in response to crises perceived as being of concern to humanity as a whole. This post argues that the current global health crisis is a unique opportunity to ‘recondition’ the system to better reflect the increased global interconnectedness of people, organisations and states across the world. This momentum should not be lost. Moment of consensus Arguably, the entire architecture of the international global order is premised on consensus formed as a response to crises perceived as a threat to humanity as a...
26 Sep Jus ad Bellum Under Strain: The Illegality of the June 2025 Strikes and September’s Legal Risk Picture
...collapses upon scrutiny, because no Iranian armed attack on Israel had occurred or was imminent at the time Israel launched its bombardment. The well-settled rule under Article 51 (confirmed by the International Court of Justice in Armed Activities on the Territory of the Congo (DRC v. Uganda)) is that the right of self-defense arises only in response to an actual armed attack or, at most, an attack that is truly imminent. Israel’s situation does not meet this criterion. There was “no armed attack by Iran against Israel occurring on June...
21 Feb Climate Change and Human Rights: A Comparative Analysis of the German and Belgian Climate Cases
[Charlotte Renglet is a PhD candidate working on climate litigation and indigenous peoples’ rights at the Faculty of Law and Criminology of the Vrije Universiteit Brussel. Prof. Dr. Stefaan Smis is the Head of the Department of Public Law at the Faculty of Law and Criminology of the Vrije Universiteit Brussel and a part-time Reader in International Law at the University of Westminster.] [This work was supported by the Research Foundation – Flanders (FWO – Research project G079120N).] In the absence of an adequate political response to climate change, a...