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“We must”: Obama’s calls to action
So many aspirations in the inaugural address that President Barack Obama delivered yesterday. Drawing less attention than other lines in the address were 2 moving calls to reduce violence. One kept...
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On International Women’s Day, honoring anniversary of pathbreaking volume
This International Women’s Day offers an occasion to celebrate the 20th anniversary of Reconceiving Reality: Women and International Law, an examination of international law, politics, and practice...
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ICC’s Bensouda on accountability & peace
‘If we have learned anything from history, it is that accountability and the rule of law have been recognized as fundamental preconditions to provide the framework to protect individuals and nations...
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“International Law & the Future of Peace”
(What follows are the remarks I delivered earlier today at the annual meeting of the American Society of International Law in Washington. The footnoted version of this speech is available at SSRN...
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Peace in process
Having urged others to “read and teach and write about” peace in the American Society of International Law speech I gave earlier this month, I’m happy to take note of upcoming events and projects that...
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Academic papers – creative works, too – sought for Seattle symposium on peace
Given my interest in law and the value of peace, I read with interest the call for papers to be presented at a conference entitled “Law, Peace, and Violence: Jurisprudence and the Possibilities of...
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Women’s independence
The 4th of July holiday tends to find me thinking about women and independence. This year’s no different, and a bit of research led to the discovery that it’s a noteworthy centenary: In mid-June 1913,...
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The crime of aggression, viewed through the lens of corporate responsibility
For a number of years now, writings of my colleague Mireille Delmas-Marty have explored the relationships between the globalization of law and the globalization of the economy. Her newest publication...
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Palestine, peace talks & the ICC
Palestine’s previous murmurs about referring its situation to the International Criminal Court – and the putting of that notion on the back burner as a key to this week’s announcement that Palestine...
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“Art of Peace Making”: September conference in Utrecht & The Hague
“The Art of Peace Making: Lessons Learned from Peace Treaties” is the name of an upcoming Netherlands conference marking 2 big international law anniversaries, the centennial of the Peace Palace and...
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Consents to international pacts on children, peace, security & accountability
Even before yesterday’s news that Israel might follow Syria in joining the Convention on the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons, worth noting was recent state action on treaties intended to increase...
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An old new idea to break P-5 impasse
Rather muted in the U.S. press is France’s recent call for “self-restraint” on its part and that of its veto-friendly partners in the P-5. The P-5, of course, are the 5 countries with permanent...
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President Jimmy Carter’s Sunday school
This time 2 weeks ago, my family, neighbors, and I were in Plains, Georgia, where former President Jimmy Carter taught us Sunday school. Age 89 and still active around the world, Carter does this every...
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In Beah novel, prosaic present & hoped-for radiance, for former child...
Times of war are marked by yearnings for peace. The landmark 1863 Lieber Code regulating combat thus said, with reference to “nations and great governments”: ‘Peace is their normal condition; war is...
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In passing: Hans-Peter Kaul, ICC judge, German diplomat, antiwar activist
Saddened to read that Judge Hans-Peter Kaul, a pivotal member of the International Criminal Court’s founding generation, has passed away. The in memoriam notice at the ICC website reports that he died...
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“Ferguson”: Caitlyn Clark’s poem to America, at John Legend concert
Stunned to listen to this poem by Caitlyn Clark, recited on stage at a John Legend’s Hollywood Bowl concert 2 days ago. It’s moving, heartfelt, raw, and real. She wants to make revolution not with the...
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“We must either love each other, or…”: “Daisy,” LBJ’s antinuke ad, turns 50
Today’s the 50th anniversary of “Daisy.” That’s the 60-minute TV advertisement in which a toddler‘s miscount to 10 morphs into a military backcount to 1; simultaneously, her right eye shapeshifts into...
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And a happy New Year Let’s hope it’s a good one Without any fear John Lennon & Yoko Ono released in 1971, but timeless
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Far cry from President Truman’s vision: today’s speech to UN General Assembly
The U.S. President’s speech to the U.N. General Assembly today sought to draw support from the example of a predecessor, Harry S Truman, who encouraged the founding in 1945 of the United Nations...
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Recalling, half a century after his assassination, what Dr. King did
It is hard to believe that 50 years have passed since the assassination, on this day in Memphis, of Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. His life – and his death – have framed much of my own life, as a...
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