International Law, Institutional Moral Reasoning, and Secession
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DOI: 10.1007/s10982-017-9316-2
Abstract: This paper argues for the superiority of international law’s existing ban on unilateral secession over its reform to include either a primary or remedial right to secession. I begin by defending the claim that secession… read more here.
Keywords: moral reasoning; law institutional; law; institutional moral ... See more keywords
Cosmopolitan Duty and Legitimate State Authority
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DOI: 10.1007/s10982-017-9318-0
Abstract: In this paper I apply a suitably developed version of Joseph Raz’s service conception of authority to the debate over the legitimacy of state action aiming to fulfill cosmopolitan moral obligations. I aim to advance… read more here.
Keywords: state; duty legitimate; cosmopolitan duty; authority ... See more keywords
Right, Crime, and Court: Toward a Unifying Political Conception of International Law
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DOI: 10.1007/s11572-017-9450-9
Abstract: It is widely acknowledged that human rights law (hereafter, HRL) and international criminal law (hereafter, ICL) share core normative features. Yet, the literature has not yet reconstructed this underlying basis in a systematic way. In… read more here.
Keywords: law; criminal law; law hereafter; right crime ... See more keywords
International law and mental health evaluations at Guantanamo: Is medical repatriation a solution for most detainees?
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DOI: 10.1016/j.ijlp.2021.101682
Abstract: This article analyzes the ruling in al-Qahtani v. Trump which establishes a new legal mechanism for Guantanamo detainees being held in indefinite detention to receive independent psychiatric evaluations from mixed medical commissions in order to… read more here.
Keywords: law mental; law; mixed medical; repatriation ... See more keywords
Custom's Future: International Law in a Changing World . Edited by Curtis A. Bradley . Cambridge, New York: Cambridge University Press, 2016. Pp. xii, 379. Index. $125.
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DOI: 10.1017/ajil.2016.13
Abstract: the Court in Oil Platforms, the Israeli Wall advisory opinion, Genocide (Bosnia v. Serbia), Merits, and others receive similar scrutiny and criticism. This chapter also presents the author’s view that a number of the Court’s… read more here.
Keywords: court work; court; law; author ... See more keywords
The Betrayal: The Nuremberg Trials and German Divergence. By Kim Christian Priemel . Oxford, New York: Oxford University Press, 2016. Pp. xiv, 481. Index. $110.
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DOI: 10.1017/ajil.2017.74
Abstract: jurisdiction is not broadly compulsory but must be established in each case. That fundamental fact has given rise to the construction of a jurisdictional regime of a complexity and subtlety that may be unmatched by… read more here.
Keywords: court; analysis; international adjudication; development international ... See more keywords
Behavioral Aspects of the International Law of Global Public Goods and Common Pool Resources
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DOI: 10.1017/ajil.2017.97
Abstract: Collective action problems with public good characteristics such as climate change have important implications for international law. This note argues that behavioral insights from laboratory experiments, in which individuals engage in public goods games, can… read more here.
Keywords: common pool; public goods; global public; goods common ... See more keywords
Anniversary Commemoration and Work of the International Law Commission's Seventieth Session
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DOI: 10.1017/ajil.2018.108
Abstract: This essay analyzes the outcome of the seventieth session of the U.N. International Law Commission held in the summer of 2018 in New York and Geneva. Notably, the Commission completed on second reading two topics:… read more here.
Keywords: work; law; seventieth session; commission ... See more keywords
Customary International Law: A Third World Perspective
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DOI: 10.1017/ajil.2018.12
Abstract: Abstract The article offers an alternative account of the evolution, formation, and function of customary international law (CIL) from a third world perspective. It argues that there is an intimate link between the rise, consolidation,… read more here.
Keywords: law; world perspective; third world; cil ... See more keywords
Closing the Accountability Gap: Concrete Steps Toward Ending Impunity for Atrocity Crimes
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DOI: 10.1017/ajil.2018.53
Abstract: When the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) was established by the UN Security Council in 1993 to try individuals accused of war crimes, crimes against humanity, and genocide (or, as I shall… read more here.
Keywords: impunity; accountability; atrocity crimes; international law ... See more keywords
Research Handbook on the Theory and Practice of International Lawmaking. Edited by Catherine Brölmann and Yannick Radi. Northampton, MA: Edward Elgar, 2016. Pp. xvii, 484. Index.
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DOI: 10.1017/ajil.2019.85
Abstract: rights. Part Seven, which concludes the collective volume, includes a disparate group of three chapters relating to comparative international law in investment and law of the sea. This section also contains some of the most… read more here.
Keywords: law; volume; comparative international; investment law ... See more keywords