Author Archives: Eric Loefflad

About Eric Loefflad

Eric Loefflad is a Lecturer in Law at the University of Kent, Canterbury. His research is largely focused on the world-historical co-evolution of international law and modern political consciousness, especially as it concerns the material and spatial dimensions of mass violence. He holds a BA in Political Science from the Pennsylvania State University (2009), a JD from Gonzaga University (2013), an LLM from SOAS University of London (2014), and a PhD from Kent Law School (2019).

Kaunas to Khan Yunis: Aharon Barak’s Dissent, Ontologies of Partition, and the Cunning of Unintended Geography

Abstract The ongoing violence in Gaza is upending one reigning liberal exceptionalist justification after another. A poignant illustration of this is Judge ad hoc Aharon Barak’s dissenting opinion on the provisional measures requested by South Africa in its suit against Israel in the International Court of Justice for breaching the Genocide Convention. In his dissent, Barak illustrated his experience as a Holocaust survivor in Lithuania in a manner unusually personal as a matter of judicial opinion. This, I argue, reveals the stark limits of the Continue reading → Continue reading →