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Would a Multilateral Investment Court be Biased? Shifting to a treaty party...
I have recently been pondering a common complaint voiced against the EU and Canada’s proposal for a multilateral investment court, which is that it would be biased against investors because all of the...
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Forcible Humanitarian Action in International Law- part I
Part I of a Two-Part Post There is a widespread myth amongst international lawyers. This is the apparently unshakeable proposition that forcible humanitarian action is clearly unlawful. Any changes to...
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Forcible Humanitarian Action in International Law- part II
Part II of a Two-Part Post Interpreting Article 2 (4) of the UN Charter According to the concept of representation noted in Part I, forcible humanitarian action is not intervention or a prima facie...
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The Data-Driven Future of International Law
Data is not only fueling the economy, but has also become an increasingly important driver of empirical legal research. Three reasons are chiefly responsible for this. First, the internet, better...
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A Possible Approach to Transitional Double Hatting in Investor-State Arbitration
In a recent ESIL Reflection, Malcolm Langford, Daniel Behn and Runar Hilleren Lie examine “The Ethics and Empirics of Double Hatting” in investor-state arbitration. (For the full article, see the...
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Book Discussion: Itamar Mann’s “Humanity at Sea: Maritime Migration and the...
The blog is happy to announce that over the next few days, we will host a discussion of Itamar Mann’s ‘Humanity Sea: Maritime Migration and the Foundations of International Law‘. Itamar is a senior...
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Encounters and their Consequences: A Review of Itamar Mann’s “Humanity at Sea”
Humanity at Sea explores the outer frontiers and inner tensions of human rights law in its treatment of migrants who, intercepted at sea, challenge the interpretive boundaries of international law as...
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Review of Itamar Mann’s ‘Humanity at Sea’
Itamar Mann’s Humanity at Sea is bold, engaging, and wide-ranging. Perhaps most importantly, it is not afraid to confront standard clichés about the conceptual underpinnings and normative architecture...
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Tarnished Hospitality: Reflections on Itamar Mann’s ‘Humanity at Sea’
What men, what monsters, what inhuman race, What laws, what barbarous customs of the place, Shut up a desert shore to drowning men, And drive us to the cruel seas again. The above verse, recounting...
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Itamar Mann Concludes the Discussion on “Humanity at Sea”
This symposium brought together four of my favorite scholars to engage with Humanity at Sea, and I couldn’t be more thankful. I learned a great deal from each of the reviews and entirely agree with...
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International Law or Comity? Exploring whether Grace Mugabe can successfully...
Background Facts On 14 August 2017 various news sites reported that Grace Mugabe, the wife of President Robert Mugabe of Zimbabwe had assaulted a young woman. A court hearing to obtain a statement from...
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The Fifth Transatlantic Workshop on International Law and Armed Conflict:...
Over the coming weeks, three blogs – Intercross, EJIL:Talk!, and Lawfare – will host a joint blog symposium on International Law and Armed Conflict. The series will feature posts by some of the...
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The scope of ICC jurisdiction over the crime of aggression: a different...
In his post of 26 June 2017 Dapo Akande asks: “Are nationals of states that do not ratify or accept the Kampala amendments, and which also do not opt out of ICC jurisdiction as provided for in those...
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Joint Blog Series on International Law and Armed Conflict: Ashley Deeks on...
The second post in our joint blog series arising from the 2017 Transatlantic Workshop on International Law and Armed Conflict, ‘Common Article 3 and Linkages Between Non-State Armed Groups’- by Ashley...
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ICRC Commentary of Common Article 3: Some questions relating to organized...
This post is part of the joint blog symposium hosted by EJIL:Talk!, Lawfare and Intercross and arising out of the 5th Transatlantic Workshop on International Law and Armed Conflict held at the...
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Sir Elihu Lauterpacht: A Celebration of His Life and Work
A memorial symposium celebrating the life and work of Sir Eli Lauterpacht was held at the Faculty of Law in Cambridge on Friday, October 13, 2017, followed the next day by a memorial service in the...
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Remaking the World towards ‘Fair and Reciprocal Trade’? The Case for (More)...
Geopolitical changes were on full display last week at multiple economic summits in Asia, where red carpet pageantry converged with the dramatic publicity of States brokering new deals at the regional...
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B. S. Chimni’s “Relatively Autonomous” International Law
Note from the Editors: We conclude 2017 with a roundtable discussion of the second edition of Professor B.S. Chimni’s International Law and World Order: A Critique of Contemporary Approaches. Given...
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Reading Chimni’s International Law and World Order: The Question of Feminism
Note from the Editors: We conclude 2017 with a roundtable discussion of the second edition of Professor B.S. Chimni’s International Law and World Order: A Critique of Contemporary Approaches. Given...
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A Marxism for International Law
Note from the Editors: We conclude 2017 with a roundtable discussion of the second edition of Professor B.S. Chimni’s International Law and World Order: A Critique of Contemporary Approaches. Given...
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