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Introducing The Thin Justice of International Law

June 1, 2015

I begin with thanks to the editors of the two blogs that have organized this mini-symposium and to the five authors, from ethics and international law, who have agreed to comment on my book. I hope this experiment in interdisciplinary blogging will be the start of something bigger. The project that eventually became The Thin Justice of International Law began out of a sense of frustration that two of the core disciplines central to developing ideas and norms of global justice – philosophical ethics and international law – were not engaging with each other. Political and moral philosophy can give us the carefully worked out ideas for improving the existing world order. Yet much of it lacks institutional awareness. In particular, I saw a dominant trend among philosophers to dismiss existing rules of international law as lacking in moral stature, as if their origin in power politics or compromise meant they could not have any independent moral grounding; or simply to ignore legal rules and institutions in their theorizing about global justice.

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Symposium on the (Ab)normality of Migration and the Legal Position of Migrants

May 18, 2015

It is with great pleasure that the ESIL Interest Group on Migration and Refugee Law, in close cooperation with EJIL:Talk!, launches its first blog symposium, which will run on EJIL:Talk! this week. The interest group was established in April 2013, making it one of the newest members of the ESIL family. Underlying its foundation is the strong belief…

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ESIL-IHRL Online Symposium: Is There General International Human Rights Law?

October 15, 2014

In June 2014, we launched the ESIL-IHRL interest group online symposia.  In our first blog post we identified three overarching challenges for researchers of international human rights law. These are resistance to containment as a sub-branch; internal-fragmentation; and interdisciplinary expansion.  We start our symposia with a basic question about international human rights law…

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Syria and the Law of Humanitarian Intervention (Part II: International Law and the Way Forward)

October 4, 2013

Editor’s Note: This piece was originally published on Just Security. My first post for Just Security explained why, despite some bungled politics, President Obama’s proposed military action in Syria could have been lawful under U.S. domestic law.  This post discusses why President Obama did not violate international law by threatening to use force in Syria in…

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Syria and the Law of Humanitarian Intervention (Part I: Political Miscues and U.S. Law)

September 26, 2013

Harold Hongju Koh is Sterling Professor of International Law at Yale Law School and was Legal Adviser of the U.S. Department of State from 2009 to 2013. Editor's Note: This piece was originally published on Just Security, a new blog with a fantastic team of editors and contributors who will be well…

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