Symposium: The Second World War in Asia: Justice Efforts, War Memory, and Reparations Digital Humanities and World War Two in Asia: the Battle of Hong Kong 1941 Project as Example by Associate Professor Kwong Chi Man (Hong Kong Baptist University) Published on 5 October 2022  On 8 December 1941, as part of the larger conflict between […]

Symposium: The Second World War in Asia: Justice Efforts, War Memory, and Reparations Words Matter, Translation Matters by Professor Kayoko Takeda (Rikkyo University) Published on 3 October 2022 Translation creates opportunities for a state to promote its narrative of war memories while meeting potentially conflicting political expectations of different parties, domestic and international. This was the […]

Symposium: The Second World War in Asia: Justice Efforts, War Memory, and Reparations Northeast Asia’s War Reparations Movement: Towards the Messy Uncertainty of Democracy, Civil Society and Rule of Law by Professor Timothy Webster (Western New England University School of Law) Published on 30 September 2022 For the past thirty years, domestic courts in the Asia-Pacific […]

Symposium: The Second World War in Asia: Justice Efforts, War Memory, and Reparations Problems of Justice in the Post-War Allied War Crimes Trials of Japanese Suspects by Professor Robert Cribb (Australian National University) and Professor Sandra Wilson (Murdoch University) Published on 28 September 2022 After the Second World War in Asia finally ended in August 1945, […]

Symposium: The Second World War in Asia: Justice Efforts, War Memory, and Reparations The Tokyo Trial and its Legacy by Professor Neil Boister, University of Canterbury, New Zealand Published on 26 September 2022 Introduction The Tokyo Judgment was handed down by majority on the 12th November 1948, nearly three quarters of a century ago. After […]

Symposium Introductory Blog The Second World War in Asia: Justice Efforts, War Memory, and Reparations by Associate Professor Cheah W.L. (National University of Singapore, Faculty of Law) Published on 26 September 2022  This symposium on the Second World War in Asia is co-organized by CIL Dialogues and the International Criminal Law Interest Group of the […]

Symposium: Climate Change in an Unequal World: Does International Law Matter? Addressing Loss and Damage: The Unanswered Call for Climate Reparations by Julia Dehm Published on 21 September 2022 The Alliance of Small Island States (AOSIS) has been raising the issue of compensation for climate impacts since at least 1991 while the United Nations Framework […]

Symposium: Climate Change in an Unequal World: Does International Law Matter? The Configurations of Latin American Climate Law by Juan Auz[1] Published on 19 September 2022 Law and Climate Vulnerability in Latin America: An Introduction Alongside the contingencies of human spatial settlement, the law co-creates and perpetuates vulnerability. As a social technology, law dictates the […]

Symposium: Climate Change in an Unequal World: Does International Law Matter? Climate Change Litigation: A View from ASEAN by Jolene Lin Published on 16 September 2022 Frustrated by governmental inaction and threatened by the impacts of climate change on their homes and livelihoods, citizens and environmental groups around the world have taken the quest for […]

Symposium: Climate Change in an Unequal World: Does International Law Matter? Climate Change in an Unequal World: Do International Courts and Tribunals Matter? by Margaretha Wewerinke-Singh* Published on 15 September 2022 Climate change is widely seen as the defining challenge of our time. It is already having devastating impacts on people, biodiversity and ecosystems around […]

Symposium: Climate Change in an Unequal World: Does International Law Matter? Climate Justice Demands a World Beyond International Law Dylan Asafo* Published on 12 September 2022 To Indigenous peoples across Te Moana Nui a Kiwa (more commonly and colonially known as the Pacific Ocean), the answer to the big question ‘does international law matter?’ lies […]

Symposium Introductory Blog Climate Change in an Unequal World: Does International Law Matter? by Dr Nilüfer Oral (NUS Centre for International Law) and Dr Ntina Tzouvala (ANU College of Law) Published on 12 September 2022 The adverse impacts of anthropogenic climate change, while global, have disproportionate consequences for many states and peoples that have contributed […]