Wednesday, January 12, 2011

Symposium: Withdrawing from Customary International Law

The latest issue of the Duke Journal of Comparative and International Law (Vol. 21, no. 1, Fall 2010) contains a symposium on "Withdrawing from Customary International Law." Contents include:
  • Curtis A. Bradley & Mitu Gulati, Customary International Law and Withdrawal Rights in an Age of Treaties
  • David J. Bederman, Acquiescence, Objections and the Death of Customary International Law
  • Rachel Brewster, Withdrawing from Custom: Choosing Between Default Rules
  • Samuel Estreicher, A Post-Formulation Right of Withdrawal From Customary International Law?: Some Cautionary Note
    Samuel Estreicher
  • Laurence R. Helfer, Exiting Custom: Analogies to Treaty Withdrawals
  • Barbara Koremenos & Allison Nau, Exit, No Exit
  • Dino Kritsiotis, On the Possibilities of and for Persistent Objection
  • C.L. Lim & Olufemi Elias, Withdrawing from Custom and the Paradox of Consensualism in International Law
  • Christina Ochoa, Disintegrating Customary International Law: Reactions to Withdrawing from International Custom
  • Anthea Roberts, Who Killed Article 38(1)(B)? A Reply to Bradley and Gulati
  • Paul B. Stephan, Disaggregating Customary International Law
  • Edward T. Swaine, Bespoke Custom
  • Joel Trachtman, Persistent Objectors, Cooperation, and the Utility of Customary International Law