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Johns on the Torture Memos & International Legal Subjectivity

By Lawrence Solum

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Fleur E. Johns (Sydney Law School) has posted Democratic Torture (18th Annual Conference of the Australian and New Zealand Society of International Law, Canberra, Australia, 24-26 June 2010) on SSRN. Here is the abstract:

Something happened to international law between 2004 and 2009. It happened in fits and starts and was largely unforeseen. At various moments during that period, classified legal memoranda were released that analyzed and sought to affirm the legality of the United States? programme of detention, interrogation and surveillance in connection with global anti-terrorism initiatives and military operations in Iraq and Afghanistan. Through these memos? release, international law encountered itself and found the encounter troubling. This paper explores prospects for critical intervention within prevailing understandings of that encounter. In particular, it asks: what forms of international legal subjectivity ? and what prospects and sites for international law-making ? could such intervention induce? Delivered as a plenary panel address at a conference dedicated to the theme ?International Law in the Second Decade of the 21st Century: Back to the Future or Business As Usual?? this paper presents portions of new research forthcoming in a book: Events ? The Force of International Law (Fleur Johns, Richard Joyce & Sundhya Pahuja eds., Routledge-Cavendish, September 2010).

Full post as published by Legal Theory Blog on July 15, 2010 (boomark / email).