Lovely art, missed lesson at Neue Galerie
NEW YORK – Art from fin de siècle Vienna has been a favorite since my semester study abroad in Austria. The taut pull of multiple styles gives energy to the paintings and prints – even the pillows –...
View ArticleMusic sounds & conflicts echo in Salzburg
SALZBURG – I’m newly returned from this Austrian city, years ago my first European home during a semester abroad. Drawing me to the edge of the Alps was the Summer Session of Salzburg Law School on...
View ArticleSlán abhaile, Seamus Heaney
Poetry lost its voice today. One of its more wondrous voices, that is, given the news of the death of Seamus Heaney today, 74 years after his birth in Ireland’s County Derry. One best heard Heaney –...
View ArticleGift of literature, to ease GTMO solitude
‘I have a choice: I can either try to help another human escape from darkness or I can look away and do nothing. And I chose to help.’ – Unnamed son of a victim of the terrorist attacks of September...
View ArticleUS out of UNESCO: lose-lose proposition?
‘And so UNESCO is in the midst of a budget crisis, and the USA is poised to lose a great deal of influence over an organization that runs Tsunami warning systems, teaches literacy to the same Afghan...
View ArticleAt Georgia Law, Karima Bennoune on “Muslim Fundamentalism”
Looking forward to tomorrow’s talk by Karima Bennoune, based on her book, Your Fatwa Doesn’t Apply Here: Untold Stories from the Fight Against Muslim Fundamentalism (W.W. Norton 2013). The event, which...
View ArticleAwaiting its retro revival: pastry blender
As we await the oven exit of our holiday bird, can’t help thinking about the sad fate of the pastry blender. A search beyond my standard cookbooks for a new recipe for an after-dinner sweetie suggested...
View ArticleA lawyer looks at “Monuments Men”
Suppose it’s like aiming at fish in a barrel to name the many flaws in The Monuments Men, now playing in cinemas. There’s the failed Oceans 1944 sense of it – it’s a buddy movie with no true friends....
View ArticleICJ anti-whaling judgment appears to have whetted Japan opponents’ appetites
Some lawmakers and lobbyists in Japan displayed their distaste for whaling bans this week with a whale-meat eat-in in Tokyo. The Japan Daily Press reported: ‘In an act of defiance against a recent...
View ArticleIn Beah novel, prosaic present & hoped-for radiance, for former child...
Times of war are marked by yearnings for peace. The landmark 1863 Lieber Code regulating combat thus said, with reference to “nations and great governments”: ‘Peace is their normal condition; war is...
View ArticleSummer reading for intlawyers-in-training
An enterprising student who is set to become part of the Georgia Law 1L class this fall recently wrote me in search of a summer reading list. In the event that my response is of wider interest, here...
View ArticleEpic painting puts chemicals prosecution, Bond v. United States, into...
In this month that marks the centenary of World War I, the U.S. Supreme Court evoked an epic image of that global conflict. Thus was rejected today the prosecutorial conflation of chemical warfare...
View ArticleWorld Cup 2014, friend of the ICC?
Any of my fellow fans of sports and international law notice that all but 5 of the 32 teams playing in this year’s World Cup are states parties to the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court?...
View Article“Ferguson”: Caitlyn Clark’s poem to America, at John Legend concert
Stunned to listen to this poem by Caitlyn Clark, recited on stage at a John Legend’s Hollywood Bowl concert 2 days ago. It’s moving, heartfelt, raw, and real. She wants to make revolution not with the...
View ArticleMunch’s magic Oslo “Scream”
OSLO – Remember the famous Edvard Munch image of The Scream? Well, that’s it at left. At least, that’s how it looked to me on first glimpse at the Munchmuseet, a highlight of this Norwegian capital. A...
View Article“We must either love each other, or…”: “Daisy,” LBJ’s antinuke ad, turns 50
Today’s the 50th anniversary of “Daisy.” That’s the 60-minute TV advertisement in which a toddler‘s miscount to 10 morphs into a military backcount to 1; simultaneously, her right eye shapeshifts into...
View Article“How can I face a child today knowing what I know?”: Angry plea to end violence
It is the season of renewal, of anticipating the year to come. It is a time for revelry, but also for reflection. And reflection on this past year forces one to confront the grim reality of harms...
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And a happy New Year Let’s hope it’s a good one Without any fear John Lennon & Yoko Ono released in 1971, but timeless
View Article“Blood Antiquities”: cultural heritage seminar in New Orleans looks at ISIS
New Orleans will be the site of what looks to be a terrific event next Thursday: “Blood Antiquities,” the Annual Cultural Heritage Seminar, on October 15, 2015. Antiquities Coalition Executive Director...
View ArticleAntiquities trafficking said to fuel transnational mayhem by Daesh et al.
Alumna Tess Davis, 2d from left, met with Georgia Law 1Ls after her lecture; from left, Hannah Williams, Ava Goble & Karen Hays. Hannah will work on cultural heritage issues this summer through a...
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