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International law and politics

Matthias Goldmann (Max Planck): We Need to Cut Off the Head of the King: Past, Present, and Future Approaches to International Soft Law. Emily Crawford (Sydney): Levee En Masse: A Nineteenth Century Concept in a Twenty-First Century World. Andrew Guzman (UC-Berkeley): The Consent Problem in International Law. Brian Opeskin and Ivan Shearer (Macquarie): Nationality and Statelessness. Alberto Fernandez Gibaja (IECAH): Living in the Wrong Neighbourhood: State Failure and its Implications for Neighbouring Countries. Simone Florio (Granada): Serbia vs Kosovo: International Law and Politics of Secession. Sascha-Dominik Oliver Vladimir Bachmann (Portsmouth) and Gerhard Kemp (Stellenbosch): Aggression as "Organized Hypocrisy"? How the War on Terrorism and Hybrid Threats Challenge the Nuremberg Legacy. Ian Hurd (Northwestern): Is Humanitarian Intervention Legal? The Rule of Law in an Incoherent World. A review of Democracy and Dissent: The Challenge of International Rule Making by Frank Vibert. Karen Alter (Northwestern): The Evolving International Judiciary. Michael Hein (Greifswald): Constitutional Conflicts between Politics and Law in Transition Societies. James Hollyer and B. Peter Rosendorff (NYU): Why Do Authoritarian Regimes Sign the Convention Against Torture? Signaling, Domestic Politics and Non-Compliance. James Hollyer (NYU) and Leonard Wantchekon (Yale): Corruption in Autocracies. Barry Weingast (Stanford): The Failure to Transplant Democracy, Markets, and the Rule of Law into the Developing World. Do foreigners have the same human rights as the rest of us? Countries that fail to safeguard free speech and press freedom are likely to be visited first by dictatorship, and then by threats to the governing regime. A look at the 6 weirdest free speech issues around the world.