JOB: Postdoctoral Researcher – Law and the Uses of the Past (University of Helsinki) (DEADLINE: 15 December 2019)

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We learned that the University of Helsinki has an open position for a postdoctoral researcher in its “Law and the Uses of the Past” project. Here the call:

The University of Helsinki is the oldest and largest institution of academic education in Finland, an international scientific community of 40,000 students and researchers. In international university rankings, the University of Helsinki typically ranks among the top 100. The University of Helsinki seeks solutions for global challenges and creates new ways of thinking for the best of humanity. Through the power of science, the University has contributed to society, education and welfare since 1640.

The Faculty of Social Sciences is Finland’s leading research and education institution in the social sciences and also the most diverse in terms of its disciplines. In several research fields the Faculty belongs to the top 50 in the international rankings. The Faculty has a strong international profile both in research and teaching programmes. The number of academic staff stands at 450. Each year the faculty awards some 350 Bachelor’s degrees, 400 Master’s degrees, and more than 40 doctoral degrees. For more information on the Faculty of Social Sciences, please visit www.helsinki.fi/en/faculty-of-social-sciences.

The Faculty of Social Sciences invites applications for the position of

POSTDOCTORAL RESEARCHER

for a two-year fixed term period from 1 January 2020 onwards (or as agreed) to contribute to the subproject Law and the Uses of the Past of the Centre of Excellence (CoE) in Law, Identity and the European Narratives (EuroStorie, www.eurostorie.org).

The CoE is a part of the interdisciplinary Centre of European Studies. The purpose of the CoE is to launch a new, third generation inquiry that critically explores the emergence of narratives of Europe as responses to the crises of the twentieth century and how these narratives have shaped the ideas of justice and community in Europe. It studies the foundational stories that underlie the contested idea of a shared European heritage in law and culture, such as the ideas of rule of law, equality, tolerance, pluralism and the rejection of totalitarianism, and their relevance for current debates on identity and history.

In this context, the subproject Law and the Uses of the Past will study the emergence of the idea of a shared legal past in Europe as a key to future integration. The main purpose of the subproject is to explore the transformation of the self-understanding and the history of law in Europe, from the interwar years to the post-war integration. Central themes are, in addition to the notion of a shared past, the rise of European integration, Transatlantic links in legal scholarship and the emergence of human rights thought. As such, the subproject will focus on literature study and archival research with respect to a number of crucial thinkers in the historical development of a European legal past. Experience in conducting archival research and an expertise in any of the native languages of these thinkers is a plus.

An appointee to the position must hold a doctoral degree in a relevant field of (legal) history, political science, or equivalent. Moreover, he or she is expected to have the ability to conduct independent scientific research and possess the teaching skills required for the position. The period following the completion of doctoral degree must not exceed five years, excluding family leave and equivalent periods of absence. An appointee must be able to provide a clear contribution to the theme of the CoE and to its general development, together with full-time researchers, postdocs, visiting faculty, Ph.D. students, and graduate students working as research assistants. To fulfil the research requirements of the position, the applicant chosen is expected to be physically present on a regular basis and actively participate in the research and teaching activities of the CoE. An appointee is expected to contribute 2 months of the annual work time to joint projects at the CoE, develop her/his own and our common research agenda, and contribute to collective academic tasks such as teaching, seminars and joint academic papers. The teaching requirement is 5% of working time.

The annual gross salary range will be approx. 41,000 – 50,000 euros, depending on the appointee’s qualifications and experience. In addition, occupational healthcare will be provided. The employment contract will include a probationary period of six months.

Applicants are requested to enclose with their applications the following documents in English as a single pdf file:

1) A curriculum vitae (max 4 pages).2) A numbered list of publications on which the applicant has marked in bold her or his five key publications to be considered during the review. (You do not need to send copies of the publications themselves.)
3) A statement (max 2 pages) outlining how the applicant’s expertise could contribute both to research conducted at the CoE and to this specific subproject.
4) A research plan (max 6 pages) with an outline of how the study would contribute to the SP1 aims.

For instructions, please see https://www.helsinki.fi/en/faculty-of-social-sciences/faculty/applying-f....

Please submit your application through the University of Helsinki Recruitment System via the link Apply for job. Applicants who are employees of the University of Helsinki are requested to submit their application via the SAP HR portal.

Further information about the position, and about the research theme Law and the Uses of the Past, may be obtained (in English and Finnish) from Dr. Kaius Tuori (kaius.tuori@helsinki.fi).
In case you need support with the recruitment system, please contact recruitment@helsinki.fi.

Due date

15.12.2019 23:59 EET

More info here

(source: ESCLH Blog)

SYMPOSIUM: Hersch Lauterpacht and Otto Wächter: two law students at the University of Vienna (Vienna, 6 DEC 2019)

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Event abstract:

In 1919, two men enrolled at the University of Vienna’s Faculty of Law and later went on to pursue very different careers. Hersch Lauterpacht became one of the most eminent scholars of international law in the 20th century, holding the famous Whewell Chair at the University of Cambridge and being a member of the International Law Commission and Judge at the International Court of Justice. Otto Wächter, on the other hand, rose to the upper ranks of the Nazi party. Wächter was involved as an illegal Nazi in the 1934 assassination of Dollfuss in Vienna, later became Governor of Krakow and then Lemberg, and went on to become a commander in the Waffen-SS Division Galicia. In Lemberg, Lauterpacht’s town of origin, Wächter was responsible for the administration of the Holocaust, in which large parts of Lauterpacht’s family perished. Lauterpacht was a prosecutor at the Nuremberg trials, while Wächter was indicted for international crimes. However, Wächter died in 1949 while on the run. The keynote speech by Philippe Sands will juxtapose these different life paths, based on his book East-West Street and his new project The Ratline.

On the speaker:

Philippe Sands QC is Professor of Law at University College London and a practising barrister at Matrix Chambers. He appears as counsel before the ICJ and ICC and sits as an arbitrator at ICSID, the PCA and the CAS. He is author of Lawless World (2005) and Torture Team (2008) and several academic books on international law, and has contributed to the New York Review of Books, Vanity Fair, the Financial Times and The Guardian. East West Street: On the Origins of Crimes Against Humanity and Genocide (2016) won the 2016 Baillie Gifford (formerly Samuel Johnson) Prize, the 2017 British Book Awards Non-Fiction Book of the Year, and the 2018 Prix Montaigne. The sequel, The Ratline, will be published in 2020 and is also the subject of a BBC podcast. Sands is President of English PEN and a member of the Board of the Hay Festival. 

 The event takes place from 18:00 to 21:00. Register with rechtsgeschichte@univie.ac.at.

BOOK: Annalisa CIAMPI (ed.), History and International Law An Intertwined Relationship (Cheltenham: Elgar, 2019), 232 p. ISBN 978 1 78897 748 7, 76,5 GBP

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Book abstract:

There is a deep and multifaceted relationship between international law and history – political events have legal implications, and international norms and institutions may influence the course of history. This incisive book unveils and illuminates this nexus, providing examples from a wide range of domains of global governance.Analysing this intertwined relationship with particular reference to international human rights, humanitarian and criminal law, this timely book features contributions from leading scholars and practitioners in international law, history and diplomacy. History and International Law, with a foreword by ICJ Judge Giorgio Gaja, covers topics ranging from the connections between current and historical events and human rights protection in the EU, to the ways in which ICC investigations and prosecutions continue to affect political developments in Africa. The authors offer examples of original analysis, establishing innovative paradigms of interdisciplinary research in the field.International lawyers and academics will find this book both useful and insightful. It will also prove valuable to scholars and students of the history of international law, diplomacy and international relations.

Contributors:

Contributors include: O. Bekou, G. Ben-Nun, A. Ciampi, E. de Wet, S. Douglas-Scott, R.E. Fife, K. Ristic, S. Troebst

(source: Elgar)

CALL FOR PAPERS: Historicization of International Law and its Limits: Preconditions, Modes and Legacies (Dornburg, 4-5 June 2020) (DEADLINE: 31 January 2020)

(Source: Universität Jena)

Historiographical debates about international law have been flourishing in the international legal literature over the last two decades. Following what international lawyers described as a ‘turn to history’ – and which is probably better understood as a turn to historiography –, it has become common for international lawyers to discourse and theorize about the specific forms and the meanings provided to the past and the ways in which such a past is created and organized by international lawyers. Such prolific historiographical debates have led to a wealth of new histories and counter-histories of international law. Being mostly produced in circles deemed (or self-labelled as) critical, this new body of literature has been promptly portrayed as an offspring of critical legal thought. Indeed, many international lawyers have considered that the historical turn constituted a natural continuation of the linguistic turn and the rise of critical thought witnessed a few decades earlier in international legal scholarship. And yet, the recent interest in the history of international law is no monopoly of (critical) international lawyers. Mention must be made of the growing interest for global histories among historians.

This workshop is premised on the idea that a continuity between critical thought and critical history is far from obvious and that it remains unclear whether all the new histories and counter histories produced after the ‘turn to history’ can be appropriately called critical. Arguably, their disruptive nature is compromised because they have all remained articulated around the same European markers and figures. Questioning the kinship between critical thought and the turn to history in international law allows this workshop to take a hard look at the ‘critical’ character of the new histories and counter-histories of international law. The aim of this workshop is to shed a new light on the historicization of international law and its limits. To that end, participants are invited to reflect on the preconditions, modes and legacies of the ‘turn to historiography’.  

Particular attention will be paid to the interaction between the turn to history and post-colonial studies, in particular the works of scholars affiliated with the so-called ‘Third World Approaches to International Law’ (TWAIL). The legacy of the historical turn cannot be evaluated independently from TWAIL engagements with the history of international law. The workshop will be held in an informal setting with a group of 15-20 participants, enabling open and mutually stimulating discussions. The questions of particular interest include (but are not limited to): − The genealogy between the linguistic turn to the turn to history in international law − The move from theory to the history of international law − The distinct generations of engagements with history among international lawyers − The genealogy between the linguistic turn, TWAIL and the turn to history − The methodological challenges associated with the writing of critical histories − The possibility of new modes of critique − The use of global history − The use of micro-histories and macro-histories, narratives and counter-narratives, local impact − The role of aporias, fundamental assumptions, ‘positionality’ of historicization, agendas of historicization − The challenge of ‘anachronism’ − The modes of historicization of TWAIL vs. other modes of historicization in international law

Submissions: Interested scholars should submit an abstract of no more than 800 words by 31 January 2020. Abstracts should contain the title of the paper, as well as the name, title and affiliation of the author(s). Please send abstracts and a CV including a list of publications to susanne.prater@uni-jena.de. If you wish to discuss topics or ideas informally, please thomas.kleinlein@uni-jena.de and/or jean.daspremont@sciencespo.fr. Speakers will be informed by 15 February 2020 whether or not their paper has been accepted.

Venue: The workshop will be held in the Old Castle in Dornburg/Thuringia (Altes Schloss von Dornburg, 25 min from Jena) on 4 and 5 June 2020. Travel and accommodation expenses will be covered on the basis of the Thuringia public-sector regulations governing travel expenses.

Timeline: Abstract submission by: 31 January 2020 Selection of papers by: 15 February 2020 Workshop: 4–5 June 2020

The call can also be found here

(source: ESCLH Blog)

JOB: Head of the Archives, Indexing and Distribution Division (The Hague: International Court of Justice; DEADLINE 29 DEC 2019)

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Function description:

The Archives, Indexing and Distribution Division is responsible for management of the archives, the indexing of files and documents, and the dispatch and distribution of Court documents and publications in accordance with the Instructions for the Registry. Acting under the general supervision of the Registrar, and within delegated authority, the Head of the Archives, Indexing and Distribution Division will plan, organize, manage and co-ordinate the activities of the Division, including formulating and implementing policies and procedures relating to the management of electronic, audio-visual and paper-based records. The incumbent will provide direction and supervision to the staff members of the Division. The incumbent’s responsibilities are to:

• Lead, plan and manage the work of the Division to ensure high-quality services are delivered in an effective, efficient and timely manner;
• Manage a team and the resources allocated to the Division; ensure the skills of staff members are continuously developed through training or coaching;
• Establish and implement strategies, guidelines and procedures to collect, assess, organize and preserve the Court’s information assets in all forms (paper, image, audio, video, electronic record, etc.). This includes ensuring conservation of information resources, implementing a disaster recovery plan and drawing up procedures to guarantee the systematic and continued receipt of relevant information where applicable;
• Ensure the maintenance of information systems to allow for the swift and accurate retrieval of information, thus making resources easily accessible to those who need them in a timely manner. In co-ordination with the Information and Communications Technology Division, analyse user needs, propose functional specifications for an information system serving these needs and oversee development of the IT solutions chosen;
• Oversee the dispatch and distribution, in paper or electronic format as appropriate, of official documents, as well as of documents filed in cases before the Court;
• Supervise the sending of the Court’s official publications to the United Nations common system, other institutions and private individuals;
• Ensure that the archival component of the Court’s policies in the field of information management remain aligned with industry standards and the specific needs of the Court. Research, analyse and evaluate new applications of information technology to archives and records management and make recommendations for their deployment. Participate in record-keeping improvement projects, contributing to feasibility studies, systems analysis, design, development and implementation, and in the evaluation and testing of record-keeping application improvements and new systems;
• Establish training programmes for relevant users on the organization of collections, management, access and use of resources. Liaise with other departments and divisions to raise awareness and develop understanding of the preservation of information resources, including by writing user manuals. Provide advisory services on record-keeping practices including records management, preservation and disposal, information management policies and procedures;
• Ensure the development and maintenance of the Electronic Document Resource Management System (EDRMS) and archives intranet pages;
• Perform other related duties as required.

More information here.

CALL FOR PAPERS: “Hidden Figures”: The United Nations War Crimes Commission and the Codification of the international criminal Law (Ludwigsburg, 20-21 February 2020) (DEADLINE: 30 November 2019)

(Source: Hsozkult)

Via Hsozkult, We learned of a call for papers for junior researchers on the impact of the UNWCC (created during World War II) on the Codification of the international criminal law.

““Crimes against peace” and “crimes against humanity” are undoubtfully two elements of a crime which have acquired enormous resonance in the legal and moral discussions in the aftermath of the WWII. They are often connected to the International Military Tribunal and the person of the American chief prosecutor at Nuremberg, Robert Jackson, who also was the head of the American delegation to the London Conference. It is frequently overlooked, that the way for the London Charter was paved by the United Nations War Crimes Commission (UNWCC). The UNWCC was established in October 1943 by seventeen of the Allied nations, including the European occupied countries like France and Poland but also New Zeeland and China, the only Non-Western independent nation. Its main function was to formulate and implement general measures for trial and punishment of alleged Axis war criminals. […]”

The full call can be found on Hsozkult

(source: ESCLH Blog)

CONFERENCE: 1919-2019, La paix par le droit. 100 ans après le traité de Versailles: quelles leçons pour la coopération internationale ? (Amiens: université de Picardie, 9-10 DEC 2019)

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Lundi 9 décembre 2019

12h30 : Accueil des participants

13h30 : Propos introductifs - Le projet de paix par le droit au XXIe siècle : apports et limites de l’expérience d’entre-deux-guerres

Panel- Permanences et mutations du modèle de coopération multilatérale perspective doctrinale

13h45 : Les juristes internationalistes français et la construction de la paix dans l’entre-deux-guerres 
Jean-Michel Guieu, Maître de conférences en histoire contemporaine des relations internationales, Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne

Les Etats-Unis, la paix par le droit et la coopération multilatérale Lucie Delabie, Professeure en droit public, Université de Picardie Jules Verne (UPJV)

Que reste-t-il de la fédération européenne imaginée durant l’entre-deux-guerres ? 
Christine Manigand, Professeure d’histoire contemporaine, Université Sorbonne Nouvelle- Paris 3

Perspective institutionnelle

L’Académie de la Haye, symbole de la paix par le droit hier et aujourd’hui Yves Daudet, Président du Curatorium de l’Académie de droit international de La Haye

La contribution de la période d’entre-deux-guerres au développement d’un modèle d’organisation internationale Marie-Clotilde Runavot, Professeure en droit public, Université de Perpignan via Domitia

La coopération économique et financière durant l’entre-deux-guerres et ce qu’il en reste 
Sylvain Schirman, Professeur d’histoire des relations internationales, Université de Strasbourg

15h45 : Débats

16h00 : Départ pour Péronne

17h30 : Visite de Historial de Péronne

19h00 : Keynote : L’héritage de la Grande guerre au plan international John Horne, Professeur d’histoire, Trinity College, Dublin

Mardi 10 décembre 2019

8h30 : Accueil

Table Ronde 1 - La contribution de la société des nations et de l’entre-deux–guerres au règlement pacifique des différends

9h00 : Le rôle des juridictions internationales dans la préservation de la paix Guillaume Le Floch, Professeur en droit public, Université de Rennes 1

La Cour permanente de Justice internationale : héritage et rupture dans le contentieux international Jean-Marc Thouvenin, Secrétaire général de l’Académie de droit international de la Haye

L’apport de la période d’entre-deux-guerres au développement de l’arbitrage international : les promesses de l’arbitrage international François Mailhé, Professeur en droit privé, UPJV

Les modes diplomatiques de règlement des différends depuis la SDN, continuité et renouveau ; point de vue politiste Thomas Lindemann, Professeur de science politique, Université de Versailles St-Quentin-en-Yvelines

10h20 : Débats

10h50 : Café

Table Ronde 2 - Les limitations du recours à la contrainte

11h00 : Négocier la paix ? Le traité de paix à l’épreuve de la prohibition de l’emploi de la force 
Romain Le Boeuf, Professeur en droit public, Université Aix-Marseille

La règle et l’exception : la légitime défense depuis 1919
Sarah Cassella, Professeure en droit public, Le Mans Université

La non reconnaissance des occupations territoriales illégales : du Mandchoukouo (1932) à la Crimée (2014) Anne Lagerwall, Professeure de droit, Université Libre de Bruxelles

La résurgence de la doctrine de la guerre juste dans le Pacte SDN sous le masque juridique des « guerres licites » 
Eric Wyler, Maître de conférences en droit public, Université Paris II Panthéon–Assas

12h20 : Débats

12h45 : Déjeuner

Table Ronde 3 - Coopération internationale et minorités

14h15 : Les leçons des mandats internationaux face aux enjeux contemporains : regards croisés Jean-Baptiste Pierchon, Maître de conférences en histoire du droit, Le Mans Université
Giovanni Distefano, Professeur de droit, Université de Neuchâtel

Les mécanismes de protection des minorités durant l’entre-deux-guerres et la construction d’un régime juridique international effectif Mouloud Boumghar, Professeur en droit public, UPJV, détachement Galatasaray

16h00 : Débats

16h30 : Conclusions Serge Sur, Professeur émerite en droit public, Université Paris II Panthéon-Assas

Colloque organisé sous la direction scientifique de Sarah Cassella et Lucie Delabie

Inscription obligatoire - Contact : virginie.bequet@u-picardie.fr

(source: univ-droit)

BOOK: Emmanuel VIVET, ed., Landmark Negotiations from Around the World - Lessons for Modern Diplomacy (Mortsel: Intersentia, 2019). ISBN 9781780688510, €39

(Source: Intersentia)

Intersentia has published a new book on landmark negotiations from around the world.

ABOUT THE BOOK

History is a source of education and insight for modern diplomacy. Through time, this book analyses 30 famous negotiations from around the World: from Roman Republic peace talks to the Philadelphia Convention, the Congress of Vienna and the first UK embassy in China, through two World Wars, as well as more recent examples such as the Iran Security Council resolutions and the Trump negotiations in Korea, just to name a few.

Landmark Negotiations from Around the World brings together the subject areas of history and negotiation studies. It focuses on their overlap and analyses past and present negotiations, applying the latest concepts of negotiation studies: a summary of each negotiation focusing on the chain of events is followed by a critical analysis cross-referencing the facts to modern negotiation theory concepts. In this way, each chapter provides answers to key questions such as: what made a successful negotiation possible? Why did a given failure occur? It helps us to identify and to qualify the good moves, the brilliant ideas, the unexpected coalitions and the uneasy situations that made a negotiation either a success or a failure.

A handpicked team of authors consisting of historians, diplomats and scholars, all specialising in international negotiation, provide unique insights, as well as entertaining and lively stories past and present, preparing us for the future.

A book of interest to anyone who revels in acting on the international stage.

With a foreword by Pierre Vimont (first Executive Secretary General of the European External Action Service) and a theoretical introduction by William Zartman (Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies).

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Emmanuel Vivet is a French civil servant and spent 15 years specializing in negotiations at governmental level in various public international fields (bilateral and multilateral) and for the European Commission. He also is an associate research fellow at the Institute for Research and Education on Negotiation (IRENE, France).

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Preliminary pages (p. 0)

Introduction: We Produce History; We Might as Well Use it, Wisely (p. 1)

Part I TO NEGOTIATE, OR NOT TO NEGOTIATE

Roman Diplomacy During the Republic: Do the Mighty Negotiate? (p. 9)

The Treaty of Dijon (1513): Or, the Art of Negotiating without a Mandate (p. 23)

Diplomatic Crisis in July 1914: Secrecy, Ultimatums, and Missed Opportunities (p. 33)

The German “All or Nothing” Approach in 1917: Unwilling to Negotiate (p. 43)

Part II BILATERAL NEGOTIATIONS

The Phoenicians (960 BCE): Long Distances, Close Business Relationships (p. 53)

Christopher Columbus and the Catholic Monarchs (1485–1492): Negotiating Troubled Waters (p. 67)

The 1998 St Malo Declaration on European Defense: High Ambitions, Modest Results (p. 79)

US–Chile Free Trade Negotiations (2000–2003): Linkage Analysis (p. 89)

Negotiating Peace with the FARC (2010–2016): Out of the Woods? (p. 103)

Part III MULTILATERAL NEGOTIATIONS

Constantinople, the Armies of the First Crusade and Alexius I Comnenus: How a Coalition was Built between Latins and Greeks in 1096 (p. 115)

The Constantinople Conference (1876–1877): Negotiating with Russia (p. 127)

No Impunity for the Crimes in Darfur (2005): Negotiations within the Security Council (p. 139)

Negotiating the American Constitution (1787–1789): Coalitions, Process Rules, and Compromises (p. 151)

The Vienna Congress (1814–1815): A Security Council “Avant La Lettre” (p. 165)

The 1856 Congress of Paris: Putting Victory to Good Use (p. 179)

Woodrow Wilson in Versailles: A Transparent Diplomat’s Frustrated Ambition (p. 191)

The Convention on the Future of Europe (2002–2003): A Model Process for a Multi-Institutional Meeting (p. 207)

Part IV BEYOND INTERESTS: EMOTIONS, BELIEFS AND VALUES

An Industrialization Deal in 1868 Japan: Glover the Scotsman in Nagasaki (p. 217)

The 1659 Treaty of the Pyrenees: France and Spain Negotiate Honor (p. 231)

The Macartney Embassy to China (1793): Negotiating Face and Symbols (p. 239)

What Set Off the Korean Conflict of 1950? Interests, Reputation, and Emotions (p. 251)

The Cuban Missile Crisis, 1962: Overt Confrontation, Covert Diplomacy and Downright Luck (p. 261)

The Run Up to the Trump/Kim Singapore Summit: Playing Red and Playing Blue (p. 273)

Part V MIDDLE EAST NEGOTIATIONS: INTERESTS OR EMOTIONS?

Negotiating in Syria in 1920: Gouraud and Faisal before the Battle of Damascus (p. 289)

UN Security Council Resolution 242 of 1967: Ambiguity in International Agreements (p. 305)

The Iran Nuclear Issue (2003–2005): Choosing to Negotiate (p. 317)

The Iran Nuclear Negotiations (2005–2015): Tumbling in the Escalation Trap (p. 327)

Part VI MEDIATIONS

Raoul Nordling and the 1944 Liberation of Paris: A Mediator Saves Paris (p. 337)

The Peace Process in Northern Ireland (1997–2007): From Hatred to Reason (p. 349)

Four Decades in the Southern Philippines (1971–2008): Can “Biased” Mediators be Helpful? (p. 359)

Conclusion: Lessons for Modern Diplomacy (p. 369)

Index (p. 375)

More info here

(source: ESCLH Blog)

JOURNAL: Journal of the History of International Law/Revue d'histoire du droit international XXI (2019), No. 3

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Resolving the Misunderstood Historical Order: A Korean Perspective on the Historical Tributary Order in East Asia (Si Jin Oh)
Abstract:

Regarding the historical East Asian order, previous studies appear to have emphasized Chinese and Japanese perspectives, and this academic phenomenon seems to have contributed to solidifying a misunderstanding. This study attempts to present a Korean perspective providing different points of view that challenge previous perspectives on the legal status of Korea in the nineteenth century. One of the critical misunderstandings about the historical relationship between China and Korea is that of vassalage. However, such an analogy is misleading. The East Asian international normative order, which was based on Li, is a particular order that requires a separate treatment. The nature of the tributary order would not necessarily impair sovereignty if it were possible to project and apply the classical international law of the nineteenth century. As the policy of Dongdoseogi represents, however, Korea once seemed to have preferred to maintain the two normative systems simultaneously.

From Swords to Words: the Intersection of Geopolitics and Law, and the Subtle Expansion of International Law in the Consolidation of the Independence of the Latin American Republics (Nicolas Carillo-Santarelli & Carolina Olarte-Bácares)
Abstract:

 Looking at successive chronological stages in the development from the de facto independence of former Spanish colonies towards their first timid recognition by the United Kingdom and their later full acceptance as states by the Spanish monarchy, this article examines several factors that indicate that pragmatism, motivated by political and economic reasons, was the defining element that persuaded different European powers to grant recognition to the nascent States in a historical era in which such recognition was essential for statehood. Those Latin American Republics likewise benefited from British recognition and the later definitive recognition of Spain and other European powers, bending the limits of the law then existing with dynamics based on the principle of effectiveness coupled with certain legitimacy considerations, which have been present throughout history, including the present.

Divide and Then Preside: the Dilemma of the First Asian President of the Permanent Court of International Justice in the Age of Empires: a Review Essay on Yanagihara Masaharu and Shinohara Hatsue Eds, Adachi Mineichirō (2017)
Abstract:

Adachi Mineichirō was the first non-European and the first Asian President of the Permanent Court of International Justice (1931–1934). This review article introduces the first substantial study of Adachi, focusing on his path of ‘becoming’ one of a few leading international jurists with non-Euro-American backgrounds in his period. This review essay demonstrates that by examining this Japanese diplomat and jurist, the book, written in Japanese, contributes to the debates on the history of international law in two significant ways. First, it reveals the fundamental issues in the development of the international judicial system, namely the nature of international jurists, empires and the principle of the equality of national sovereignty, and the significance of the roles of non-Euro-American actors in shaping the system. Secondly, it demonstrates the necessity of the inter-disciplinary collaboration between international law, international history and specific regional and national history, as well as methodological challenges in evaluating the historical development of the system.

Book reviews.

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BOOK: Heike KRIEGER, Georg NOLTE & Andreas ZIMMERMANN (eds.), The International Rule of Law. Rise or Decline ? (Oxford: OUP, 2019), XII + 378 p. ISBN 9780198843603.

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Abstract:

The authors examine the role of international law in a changing global order. Can we, under the current significantly changing conditions, still observe an increasing juridification of international relations based on a universal understanding of values, or are we, to the contrary, rather facing a tendency towards an informalization or a reformalization of international law, or even an erosion of international legal norms? Would it be appropriate to revisit classical elements of international law in order to react to structural changes, which may give rise to a more polycentric or non-polar world order? Or are we simply observing a slump in the development towards an international rule of law based on a universal understanding of values? In eleven chapters and eleven comments, distinguished scholars reflect on how to approach these questions from historical, system-oriented and actor-centered perspectives. The contributions engage with the rise of European international law since the 17th century, the decay of the international rule of law, compliance as an indicator for the state of international law, international law and informal law-making in times of populism, the rule of environmental law and complex problems, human rights in Europe in a hostile environment, the influence of the BRICS states on international law, the impact of non-state actors on international law, international law’s contribution to global justice, the contestation of value-based norms and the international rule of law in light of legitimacy claims.

On the editors

Heike Krieger, editor Professor of Public Law and International Law, Freie Universität Berlin Georg Nolte, editor Professor of Law, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin Andreas Zimmermann, editor Professor of International Law and Director of the Human Rights Centre, University of Potsdam 

(source: OUP)

BOOK: Morten BERGSMO & Emiliano J. BUIS (eds.), Philosophical Foundations of International Criminal Law: Correlating Thinkers (Brussels: TOAEP, 2018), ISBN 978-82-8348-117-4; OPEN ACCESS

(Source: Torkel Opsahl Academic EPublisher)

We learned of the online publication of an open access book on philosophical foundations of international criminal law.

ABOUT

The 'Publication Series' is the oldest publication series of the Torkel Opsahl Academic EPublisher (TOAEP). Prior to volume No. 30, it was called 'FICHL Publication Series'. Several books in this series originate in academic seminars organised by CILRAP. Unsolicited texts are subjected to peer review. The printed versions of the books are distributed through the normal channels and the e-books are made freely available through this web page (with the indicated persistent URL which you can use in citations as it is permanent). Reviews of books in the Publication Series are available here. 

Philosophical Foundations of International Criminal Law:Correlating Thinkers

PURL: http://www.toaep.org/ps-pdf/34-bergsmo-buis

Table of contents: http://www.toaep.org/ps-pdf/34-bergsmo-buis

The book can be ordered in hardcover here

More information here

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LECTURE: The Fifth Annual Asser Lecture 2019 with Prof. Anne ORFORD: the social question in international law (The Hague: 28 NOV 2019)

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Event abstract:

While international law has played a central role in creating the conditions for market liberalisation on a global scale, many international lawyers have paid less attention to the social question, leaving human welfare, social unrest, labour relations, or migration to be addressed by economists, criminologists, sociologists, or demographers. According to Prof. Orford, the current situation of people who are dispossessed or impoverished by economic liberalisation, and the exhaustion of the world’s resources have become inescapable barriers to the continuation of ‘global business as usual’. In our Fifth Asser Annual Lecture, Prof. Orford puts the social question back on the international law table. How might international economic law-making and adjudication be re-embedded within political processes? And how can foundational political questions about property, security, survival, and freedom be returned to democratic control? We are very honoured that Sigrid Kaag, Minister for Foreign Trade and Development Cooperation in The Netherlands will join us to celebrate the fifth year anniversary of the Annual T.M.C. Asser Lecture (to be confirmed).

On the speaker:

Anne Orford is Redmond Barry Distinguished Professor, Michael D Kirby Chair of International Law, and an Australian Laureate Fellow at Melbourne Law School, where she directs the Laureate Program in International Law. Anne Orford is also an elected Fellow of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia. She has held visiting positions at Lund University, University Paris 1 (Panthéon-Sorbonne), the University of Gothenburg, NYU School of Law and Harvard Law School. Her work combines the study of history and theory of international law with an engagement with central debates in social theory, history, economics and philosophy. Orford aims to grasp the changing nature and function of international law and its relation to social, political, and economic transformation. Her major publications include International Authority and the Responsibility to Protect (Cambridge University Press 2011), Reading Humanitarian Intervention (Cambridge University Press 2003), the edited collection International Law and its Others (Cambridge University Press 2006), and, as co-editor, The Oxford Handbook of the Theory of International Law (Oxford University Press 2016). A collection of her essays in French, entitled Pensée Critique et Droit International, is forthcoming with Pedone. Her latest monograph International Law and the Politics of History, will be published by Cambridge University Press in 2019. Her work has been recognised by numerous honorary doctorates of laws. 

(source: Asser Institute$)

CALL FOR PAPERS: Decolonial Comparative Law Workshop (6 October 2020, Johannesburg) (DEADLINE: 6 February 2020)

(Source: MPI for Comparative and International Private Law)

We learned of a call for papers for a new collaborative research project on decolonial comparative law by the Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law in Hamburg. Here the call:

Call for papers: Decolonial Comparative Law Workshop 6 October 2020

Johannesburg, South Africa

Abstract submission deadline: 6 February 2020 Draft paper submission deadline: 20 August 2020

The Max Planck Institute for Comparative Law (Hamburg) and the University of the Witwatersrand

School of Law will host a one-day workshop on decolonial comparative law on 6 October 2020 at the University of Witwatersrand (Johannesburg). The workshop precedes the International Academy of Comparative Law Thematic Congress on “Diversity and Plurality in Law,” which takes places 7-9 October in Pretoria (South Africa). (Our workshop is not connected to the International Congress and participation in our workshop is not limited to or dependent on attendance of the International Congress.)

THEME: Although traditional comparative law methods have been criticized for several decades now, a clear alternative has not emerged. Debates between doctrinal, functionalist, and culturalist comparatists remain unresolved. One reason may be that despite such differences, a deeper, and problematic, agreement remains intact: agreement on certain ideas of law (as a matter of expertise) and of society (as either already or seeking to be liberal/democratic) that emerged within a European colonial context. Conventional comparative law—with all its valuable methodological and theoretical disagreements—remains mired within a Eurocentric paradigm encompassing the objects of comparison (too often civil vs common law) and theoretical and methodological presuppositions (the concept of law, the role of the state and of community, the mode of thought, etc.). Because conventional comparative law is mired in colonial epistemologies, we seek to explore decolonial comparative law. Decolonial theory is a school of critical theory developed by scholars (primarily in South America) engaging with the epistemological distinctiveness of coloniality in settler-colonies, as compared to colonies. (Decolonial theory is related to, but different from, decolonization, a historical process by which colonized states become formally independent. By way of example, whereas decolonization necessitates redistribution of property, decolonial theory necessitates a radical rethinking of property.) Decolonial scholars emphasize that modernity and coloniality are inseparable, such that the world today is dominated by the epistemic assumptions of modernity/coloniality. To overcome the hegemony of modernity, decolonial theorists call for pluriversality. Pluriversality rejects universality and emphasizes the simultaneous legitimacy of multiple traditions and social orderings from intellectual—not only geographic—borderlands. A basic presumption of decolonial theory is that the native/indigenous societies that were nearly eradicated by settler-colonialism are important sources of resistance to European epistemological hegemony. Our project brings together the broad insights and challenging ideas of decolonial theory to the field of comparative law. We are interested in both identifying the colonial structures and presuppositions in conventional comparative law and examining what a decolonial comparative law could look like and what it could achieve. Such a program operates both on a theoretical and a practical level, bringing together concrete case studies and theoretical considerations. Most importantly, decolonial comparative law is a pluriversal project that includes multiple voices and perspectives, rather than reinforcing coloniality through a European-dominated effort of decolonization. To that end, our project emphasizes giving voice and authority to legal scholars in the global South. (We invite those interested to view and to suggest additions to our work-inprogress bibliographies of decolonial theory and decolonial legal studies: http://www.mpipriv.de/decolonial)

We invite papers that address any aspect of decolonial comparative law, including: • How was the development of the modern discipline of comparative law in nineteenthcentury Europe intertwined with European colonialism? • How do legal transplants manifest coloniality? • How do both functionalist and culturalist methods reflect particular colonial ideas of the relation between law and society? • What were the premodern precursors to the modern discipline of comparative law? • How is the bifurcation between secular law and religious law implicated in coloniality? • How do neo-colonial relationships of power continue to shape conventional comparative law? • How can indigenous and native legal traditions transform the conventional discipline of comparative law? • How can a decolonial comparative law be theorized and practiced? • What are the decolonial alternatives to the use of the modern nation-state as the key analytical category of comparison in conventional comparative law?

Attendance in the workshop is open. We ask those interested in attending to register as engaged listeners by emailing decolonial@mpipriv.de with “Decolonial comparative law, engaged listener registration” in the subject line. Please indicate your full name, your institutional affiliation (if any), and your preferred email address. (Engaged listeners are asked to attend the entire workshop and read all the papers in advance.)

ABSTRACT SUBMISSION: Please send your title and abstract in any language of no more than 750 words (including a bibliography of up to five entries) to decolonial@mpipriv.de as an attachment by 6 February 2020. Authors of accepted papers will be asked to submit a draft paper by 20 August 2020. Please indicate if you will need funding in order to attend the workshop. (MPI will provide two-nights of accommodation for participants; some needs-based reimbursement for travel will also be available.)

ORGANIZERS: The Decolonial Comparative Law Workshop is co-organized by Tshepo Madlingozi (tshepo.madlingozi@wits.ac.za), Ralf Michaels (michaels@mpipriv.de), Lena Salaymeh (salaymeh@mpipriv.de), and Emile Zitzke (emile.zitzke@wits.ac.za). ABOUT the University of the Witwatersrand School of Law : Wits School of Law is based in Johannesburg, South Africa. Alongside equipping students with critical thinking skills across our undergraduate and postgraduate teaching offerings, we host three Centres – the Wits Law Clinic, the Mandela Institute and the Centre for Applied Legal Studies (CALS). Our centres help us to produce locally significant and globally important interventions, research and advice. We are based at Wits University’s Faculty of Commerce Law and Management on West Campus. Our roots go back to 1922 when our initial offering was the Law Certificate for attorneys and the Civil Service Lower Law Examination. As we approach 100 years of existence our modern day offering is vast. We teach a variety of undergraduate programmes, specialised master’s degrees, PhD programmes and international exchanges.

ABOUT the Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law: The MPI in Hamburg is dedicated to performing foundational research and promoting the transfer of knowledge in the field of comparative law. The results of the Institute’s research are reflected in academic publications as well as in the recommendations and expert opinion papers prepared for commissions, governments and courts. Additionally, the scholars employed at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Law regularly play a role in the formulation of laws at both the national and international level. MPI is committed to international partnerships and the establishment of academic networks with domestic and foreign research institutes and universities in order to foster new directions in scholarly inquiry.

More info with the Max Planck Institute

(source: ESCLH Blog)

BOOK: Matthew CRAVEN, Sundhya PAHUJA, and Gerry SIMPSON (eds.) International Law and the Cold War (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019). ISBN 9781108499187, £ 120.00

(Source: CUP)

Cambridge University Press is publishing a new book on international law and the cold war.

ABOUT THE BOOK

International Law and the Cold War is the first book dedicated to examining the relationship between the Cold War and International Law. The authors adopt a variety of creative approaches - in relation to events and fields such as nuclear war, environmental protection, the Suez crisis and the Lumumba assassination - in order to demonstrate the many ways in which international law acted upon the Cold War and in turn show how contemporary international law is an inheritance of the Cold War. Their innovative research traces the connections between the Cold War and contemporary legal constructions of the nation-state, the environment, the third world, and the refugee; and between law, technology, science, history, literature, art, and politics.

ABOUT THE EDITORS

Matthew Craven, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London

Matthew Craven is a Professor of International Law at School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, and Chair of the Centre for the Study of Colonialism, Empire and International Law. He is also a Senior Fellow at Melbourne Law School and a member of the Advisory Council for the Institute for Global Law and Policy at Harvard Law School. He is author of The Decolonization of International Law: State Succession and the Law of Treaties (2007) and The International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (1995).

Sundhya Pahuja, University of Melbourne

Sundhya Pahuja is a Professor of International Law and Director of the Institute for International Law and the Humanities at the University of Melbourne. She is a leading scholar of postcolonial international law, and author of Decolonising International Law (Cambridge, 2011).

Gerry Simpson, London School of Economics and Political Science

Gerry Simpson is a Professor of International Law at London School of Economics and Political Science. He held the Sir Kenneth Bailey Chair of Law at the University of Melbourne Law. He is the author of Great Powers and Outlaw States (Cambridge, 2004) and Law, War and Crime: War Crimes Trials and the Reinvention of International Law (2007).

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Dedication

About the editors

About the authors

List of figures

Acknowledgements

1. Reading and unreading a historiography of hiatus Matthew Craven, Sundhya Pahuja and Gerry Simpson

Part I. The Anti-Linear Cold War:

2. International law and the Cold War: reflections on the concept of history Richard Joyce

3. The elusive peace of Panmunjom Dino Kritsiotis

Part II. The Generative/Productive Cold War:

4. Accounting for the ENMOD convention: Cold War influences on the origins and development of the 1976 Convention on Environmental Modification techniques Emily Crawford

5. Nuclear weapons law and the Cold War and post-Cold War worlds: a story of co-production Anna Hood

6. Parallel worlds: Cold War division space Scott Newton

7. Shadowboxing: the data shadows of Cold War international law Fleur Johns

8. Contesting the right to leave in international law: The Berlin Wall, the third world brain drain and the politics of emigration in the 1960s Sara Dehm

9. Bridging ideologies: Julian Huxley, Détente, and the emergence of international environmental law Aaron Wu

10. More than a 'parlour game': international law in Australian public debate, 1965–1966 Madelaine Chiam

11. Environmental justice, the Cold War and US human rights exceptionalism Carmen G. Gonzalez

12. The Cold War and its impact on Soviet legal doctrine Anna Isaeva

13. Forced labour Anne-Charlotte Martineau

14. Rupture and continuity: North–South struggles over debt and economic co-operation at the end of the Cold War Julia Dehm

15. The Cold War history of the landmines convention Treasa Dunworth

Part III. The Parochial/Plural Cold War:

16. The Cold War in Soviet international legal discourse Boris N. Mamlyuk

17. The Dao of Mao: Sinocentric socialism and the politics of international legal theory Teemu Ruskola

18. 'The dust of Empire': the dialectic of self-determination and re-colonisation in the first phase of the Cold War Upendra Baxi

19. The 'Bihar Famine' and the authorisation of the green revolution in India: developmental futures and disaster imaginaries Adil Hasan Khan

20. Pakistan's Cold War(s) and international law Vanja Hamzić

21. International law, Cold War juridical theatre, and the making of the Suez Crisis Charlie Peevers

22. To seek with beauty to set the world right: Cold War international law and the radical 'imaginative geography' of Pan-Africanism Christopher Gevers

23. John Le Carré, international law and the Cold War Tony Carty

24. Postcolonial hauntings and Cold War continuities: Congolese sovereignty and the murder of Patrice Lumumba Sara Kendall

25. End times in the Antipodes: propaganda and critique in On the Beach Ruth Buchanan.

More information here
(source: ESCLH Blog)

REMINDER: CALL FOR PAPERS: “The Hope of Ages is in the Process of Realization” – Establishing a World Court, 1920-1922 (Nijmegen, 11-12 June 2020) (DEADLINE: 15 December 2019)

(Source: Glasgow Centre for International Law & Security)

We learned of a call for papers for a workshop at the University of Nijmegen on the establishment of the Permanent Court of International Justice. Here the call:

We are approaching the centenary of the first ‘World Court’: between 1920 and 1922, experts and diplomats prepared the Statute of the Permanent Court of International Justice (PCIJ), the first ‘World Court’, located in The Hague. Their work drew on the efforts of prior generations of international lawyers and activists, and yet resulted in something new and lasting: a permanent court of potentially general jurisdiction, whose basic structures have remained unchanged for nearly a century. While the PCIJ itself has remained the subject of continuous inquiry, many questions and decisions relating to its establishment have remained understudied. These include:

– The role of key protagonists in the drafting of the PCIJ’s Statute (including, but not limited to, the Advisory Committee of Jurists);

– The role of civil society and of non-European nations in the establishment phase;

– The response of the Dutch government and society to the proposed establishment of a(nother) ‘Hague court’;

– Contemporary views and predictions of the future Court’s role and relevance.

To understand these issues and to close gaps in our understanding of the PCIJ’s ‘establishment phase’, Professors Christian J. Tams (University of Glasgow) and Henri de Waele (Radboud University) will host a two-day workshop in Nijmegen, The Netherlands, on 11-12 June 2020.

As part of this workshop, we invite applications for paper presentations from scholars of international law, history, international relations, and related disciplines.

Interested applicants should submit an abstract of no more than 750 words by 15 December 2019 to the following address: pcijconference@ru.nl. Please include your name, affiliation and email address with the abstract, and indicate succinctly why you feel it offers a novel angle.

The full text of the call is available here.

(source: ESCLH Blog)