{"id":4264,"date":"2019-09-06T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-09-06T07:56:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/staging.voelkerrechtsblog.org\/articles\/how-to-be-cynical-some-suggestions\/"},"modified":"2020-12-09T10:50:34","modified_gmt":"2020-12-09T09:50:34","slug":"how-to-be-cynical-some-suggestions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/voelkerrechtsblog.org\/de\/how-to-be-cynical-some-suggestions\/","title":{"rendered":"How to be cynical: some suggestions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Watch here the livestream of Prof. Gerry Simpson&#8217;s Keynote Lecture, opening the Working Group of Young Scholars in Public International Law&#8217;s (<em>Arbeitskreis junger V\u00f6lkerrechtswissenschaftler*innen<\/em> \u2013 AjV) and the German Society of International Law&#8217;s (<em>Deutsche Gesellschaft f\u00fcr Internationales Recht<\/em> \u2013 DGIR) joint conference<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><strong>Cynical International Law?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><strong><em>Abuse and Circumvention in Public International and European Law<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>held at Freie Universit\u00e4t Berlin on 6-7 September 2019. Find the conference program <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jura.fu-berlin.de\/en\/fachbereich\/einrichtungen\/oeffentliches-recht\/lehrende\/kriegerh\/forschung\/AJV\/Programm\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><em>What might it mean for international lawyers to be playful, puckish, maybe even virtuous? Could we be cynics without cynicism? And how, \u2018after\u2019 critique, might we respond to the perennial question: \u2018what is to be done?\u2019<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">In this lecture, Gerry Simpson will contemplate these and other questions. His lecture is preceded by introductory words of the conference organizers.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 640px;\" class=\"wp-video\"><video class=\"wp-video-shortcode\" id=\"video-4264-1\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" preload=\"metadata\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"video\/mp4\" src=\"https:\/\/medien.cedis.fu-berlin.de\/cedis_medien\/projekte\/rewiss\/2019\/voelkerrecht\/cynical_international_law.mp4?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/medien.cedis.fu-berlin.de\/cedis_medien\/projekte\/rewiss\/2019\/voelkerrecht\/cynical_international_law.mp4\">https:\/\/medien.cedis.fu-berlin.de\/cedis_medien\/projekte\/rewiss\/2019\/voelkerrecht\/cynical_international_law.mp4<\/a><\/video><\/div>\n<p>The livestream will be available on the blog up to one week after the lecture and will be replaced by a permanent edited video recording afterwards.<\/p>\n<p>You can also just listen to the audio stream:<\/p>\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-4264-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/voelkerrechtsblog.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Gerry_Simpson_2019-09-06.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/voelkerrechtsblog.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Gerry_Simpson_2019-09-06.mp3\">https:\/\/voelkerrechtsblog.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Gerry_Simpson_2019-09-06.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n<p>For further live updates on the conference on Friday and Saturday, follow <em>V\u00f6lkerrechtsblog\u2019s<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AjVBlog\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Twitter account<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Watch here the livestream of Prof. Gerry Simpson&#8217;s Keynote Lecture, opening the Working Group of Young Scholars in Public International Law&#8217;s (Arbeitskreis junger V\u00f6lkerrechtswissenschaftler*innen \u2013 AjV) and the German Society of International Law&#8217;s (Deutsche Gesellschaft f\u00fcr Internationales Recht \u2013 DGIR) joint conference Cynical International Law? 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