Humanitarian Intervention:
The Future
of International Law
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The Future of
International Law
IES Workshop
Wednesday, October 13, 2004
2-5 pm
"The Future of International Law" was the working title for a public
debate on the role of international law in the post 9/11 world. The debate
dealt with
humanitarian intervention and preventative war and raised the question: Do
these activities constitute a breach of international law? Was the US invasion
of
Iraq illegal?
How do international experts come to terms with the
new forms of war-like violence such as 9/11, and to what extent
do they
foresee intervention possibilities that could be recognized
as international law? Did the unilateral decision for the '
War against Iraq' cause the US to ruin its international reputation
as a protector of global rights and guarantor of international
law? Battles perpetrated less by nations than by anonymous
mercenaries or paramilitary groups funded by the "warlords" of
despots have been labeled "the new form of war".
This combat presents a fundamental challenge not only to the
traditional idea of war but to that of an international law
meant to prevent war.
These issues and many others were discussed by a panel of international scholars
including:
- Bruno Simma, International Criminal Court in The Hague
and President of the European Society of International Law
- Ulrich Preuss, Prof. Public Law and Political Studies,
FU Berlin
- Richard Buxbaum, Prof. International Law, UC Berkeley
- Lothar Determann, PD FU Berlin, USF Law School
- Steve Weber, Prof.Political Studies, UC Berkeley
- Steven Krasner, Prof. International Relations, Stanford
University
- Thilo Marauhn, Prof. Public Law and International Law,
University of Giessen
A follow-up symposium is planned for 2005.
Co-hosted by the Goethe Institute, San Francisco.
Workshop sponsored by IES and IIS.
