Comments on: The Law Should Be Worthy Of Our Respect https://lettersblogatory.com/2023/10/29/the-law-should-be-worthy-of-our-respect/ The Blog of International Judicial Assistance Mon, 22 Jul 2024 19:56:11 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: The ICJ Makes Peace Harder | Letters Blogatory https://lettersblogatory.com/2023/10/29/the-law-should-be-worthy-of-our-respect/#comment-16544 Mon, 22 Jul 2024 19:56:11 +0000 https://lettersblogatory.com/?p=32220#comment-16544 […] and the Palestinian territories is so, so dispiriting. Let me begin with the caution I gave in my very first post after the October 7 massacre and repeated in one form or another in my post explaining the view of […]

]]> By: Ted Folkman https://lettersblogatory.com/2023/10/29/the-law-should-be-worthy-of-our-respect/#comment-7776 Tue, 31 Oct 2023 08:59:55 +0000 https://lettersblogatory.com/?p=32220#comment-7776 In reply to Alejandro Manevich.

Thanks!

]]> By: Alejandro Manevich https://lettersblogatory.com/2023/10/29/the-law-should-be-worthy-of-our-respect/#comment-7762 Tue, 31 Oct 2023 01:49:19 +0000 https://lettersblogatory.com/?p=32220#comment-7762 In reply to Ted Folkman.

Ted, I don’t see Prof Dinstein’s paper published anywhere other than the conference proceedings; I can send you a copy.

]]> By: Ted Folkman https://lettersblogatory.com/2023/10/29/the-law-should-be-worthy-of-our-respect/#comment-7745 Mon, 30 Oct 2023 17:41:11 +0000 https://lettersblogatory.com/?p=32220#comment-7745 In reply to Alejandro Manevich.

Thanks for this, Alex! If you have any citations to Professor Dinstein’s analysis, I would be most interested to read it.

]]> By: Alejandro Manevich https://lettersblogatory.com/2023/10/29/the-law-should-be-worthy-of-our-respect/#comment-7744 Mon, 30 Oct 2023 16:31:56 +0000 https://lettersblogatory.com/?p=32220#comment-7744 Ted, good post. And I second the previous comment: I heard Prof. O’Connell speak at a conference in 2007 on the right of states to self-defence in response to terrorism under international law. I was astounded at the time that anyone could take her ideas seriously. (It brings to mind the Orwell quote about how one has to belong to the intelligentisia to believe things like that, as no ordinary man could be such a fool.) Also at that conference, speaking on the same topic, was the Israeli international law scholar Yoram Dinstein. He demolished Prof O’Connell’s analysis so thoroughly and so convincingly that I almost felt sorry for her.

]]> By: FakeName https://lettersblogatory.com/2023/10/29/the-law-should-be-worthy-of-our-respect/#comment-7704 Sun, 29 Oct 2023 15:14:10 +0000 https://lettersblogatory.com/?p=32220#comment-7704 MEOC has been saying these sorts of things for decades now—it’s a political project for her, and the Iraq debacle means that public international law academia has several outlets that are friendly to this view (notably EJIL Talk and Opinio Juris). Frankly, part of the point of creating international institutions is to try to have a credible voice for international law that does not come from ideological activist groups or the most cloistered corners of academia.

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