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12 Dec 2012 ASIL Annual Meeting: Confronting Complexity

...otherwise hear. Among others, we hope to bring in people from other fields – science, technology, entrepreneurship, philanthropy, etc. – who might broaden our understandings of what’s possible. We are already working on some exciting speakers for the Annual Meeting (stay tuned), and if successful, we hope this will become an ongoing ASIL feature. We welcome your thoughts on good candidates. The Annual Meeting will be held March 28-31, 2012 at the Fairmont Hotel in Washington, DC. Registration is here. We hope you’re getting excited for it. We certainly are!...

12 Apr Two ASIL Calls for Papers Closing Next Week!

Two calls for papers for ASIL events are closing on April 15 and April 20 Second Annual ASIL Research Forum October 20-21, 2012, Athens, GA The American Society of International Law calls for submissions of scholarly paper proposals for the ASIL Research Forum to be held at the University of Georgia School of Law on October 20-21, 2012. The Research Forum, a Society initiative introduced in 2011, aims to provide a setting for the presentation and focused discussion of works-in-progress by Society members. All ASIL members are invited to attend...

29 Mar ASIL Cables: 2012 Grotius Lecture

Our friends at ASIL Cables have posted Joanne Mariner‘s summary of the yesterday’s 2012 Grotius Lecture at the ASIL’s 106th Annual Meeting: Jakob Kellenberger, the President of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), kicked off ASIL’s 106th Annual Meeting with a stirring reaffirmation of the value of international law. Delivering the Grotius Lecture on the meeting’s opening day, Kellenberger spoke of the role of international humanitarian law—the law of war—in reducing the harms caused by armed conflict. While acknowledging that international humanitarian law cannot by itself end wartime...

10 Dec Weekday News Wrap: Monday, December 10, 2012

Today is International Human Rights Day; 64 years ago, the UN Declaration of Human Rights was signed. The Empire State Building in New York will be illuminated in blue today to honor the work of Human Rights Watch. Also today, and with the end of the year fast approaching, Amnesty International has released its year in human rights for 2012. The 18th Conference of the Parties to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change concluded in Doha, Qatar, with an agreement to extend the Kyoto Protocol until 2020, and on...

02 Dec Upcoming Events: December 2, 2012

Upcoming Events The next session of the Joint International Humanitarian Law Forum takes place on December 5, 2012 at the IDC Radzyner School of Law. Dr. Ben Clarke will discuss his new article “Beyond the Call of Duty: Integration of International Humanitarian Law in Video Games and Battlefield Training Simulators”. More information can be found here. Calls for Papers The International Community Law Review has issued a call for papers for a special issue of its 2013 volume, to be edited by Professor Duncan French (University of Lincoln) and Dr....

17 Mar Weekend Roundup: March 10-16, 2012

...of the Leiden Journal of International Law, two (1, 2) examining the ICJ’s Nicaragua judgment 25 years on and a third on the modes of liability in international criminal law. We hope you feel inspired by what you have read on Opinio Juris this week. If you are, the call for papers for the International Law Weekend 2012 to which Peggy McGuinness drew our attention here may interest you. We’d like to thank all our guest contributors for their efforts this week and wish all our readers a nice weekend!...

24 Apr Weekday News Wrap: Tuesday, April 24, 2012

...to return to their homes for a decade. In a bit of good news, the number of global piracy incidents is down by almost a third in the first quarter of 2012; however, the risk in Nigeria grows. Bosnia has charged three men with terrorism for the attacks on the US Embassy in Sarajevo last year. UN Office on Drugs and Crime head, Yury Fedotov, said that global crime is one of the world’s “top-20 economies.” At least one source is reporting that North Korea will be ready “soon” to...

13 Nov Weekday News Wrap: Tuesday, November 13, 2012

...18 new countries, one of which is the United States, to a three-year term on the Human Rights Council beginning January 1, 2013. The Appeals Chamber of the ICTY has announced that the judgment in Prosecutor v. Gotovina & Markac will be issued on 16 November 2012. NATO has said it is “ready” to help Turkey deal with Syria. Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan said his country should consider bringing back the death penalty, a decade after Ankara abolished capital punishment as part of reforms aimed at European Union membership....

23 Jun Weekend Roundup: June 16-22, 2012

...Roger Alford discussed how extraterritorial application of the US Foreign Corrupt Practices Act could jumpstart anti-corruption prosecution in other OECD countries, and Julian Ku posted about Germany v Greece in the Euro 2012. Peter Spiro asked whether the pending Supreme Court ruling on Arizona’s SB1070 will make any difference and whether Julian Assange will live out his days in the Ecuadorian Embassy in London. Peter also pointed to the plight of persons of South Sudanese descent residing in Sudan who have become stateless after South Sudan’s secession. As always, Kevin...

29 Sep Weekend Roundup: September 22-28, 2012

...over, despite the April 3, 2012 update by the OTP. Another guest post, by Polina Levina and Kaveri Vaid, argued that the allegations of torture in a recent Human Rights Watch report qualify as war crimes under the Rome Statute, and are thus relevant for the OTP’s preliminary investigation into the situation in Afghanistan. Our journal symposia are also back after the Northern Hemisphere summer break. The Harvard International Law Journal kicked off with a symposium on “The Democratic Coup d’Etat“, an article by Ozan Varol. The article argues that...

31 Mar Weekend Roundup: March 24-30, 2012

This week many of our readers will have attended ASIL’s 106th Annual Meeting. If you weren’t in Washington DC, we brought you Harold Hongju Koh’s statement regarding Syria (with the possibility to comment here). Deborah Pearlstein drew conclusions for further research from the panel on international humanitarian law and international human rights law. Via ASIL Cables, you could also read Joanne Mariner’s summary of the 2012 Grotius Lecture and Tai-Heng Cheng’s interview with James Crawford. In the wake of the Supreme Court’s decision in Kiobel to reopen the argument on...