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All the data files must have the same columns, but at some point there are 2 missing columns ({'author', 'content'})

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                File "/src/services/worker/src/worker/job_runners/config/parquet_and_info.py", line 1191, in convert_to_parquet
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                  self._download_and_prepare(
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                  self._prepare_split(split_generator, **prepare_split_kwargs)
                File "/src/services/worker/.venv/lib/python3.9/site-packages/datasets/builder.py", line 1882, in _prepare_split
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                File "/src/services/worker/.venv/lib/python3.9/site-packages/datasets/builder.py", line 2013, in _prepare_split_single
                  raise DatasetGenerationCastError.from_cast_error(
              datasets.exceptions.DatasetGenerationCastError: An error occurred while generating the dataset
              
              All the data files must have the same columns, but at some point there are 2 missing columns ({'author', 'content'})
              
              This happened while the csv dataset builder was generating data using
              
              hf://datasets/t41372/opinio-juris/url_index.csv (at revision 5501885a1fee566e2c522d8d45fe8b2664c11e30)
              
              Please either edit the data files to have matching columns, or separate them into different configurations (see docs at https://hf.co/docs/hub/datasets-manual-configuration#multiple-configurations)

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date string	url string	title string	author string	content string
2005-01-10	https://opiniojuris.org/2005/01/10/international-law-comes-knocking/	international-law-comes-knocking	Peggy McGuinness	Speaking of ontological debates, cracks may be showing in the façade (or is it a bulwark?) of American constitutional exceptionalism, i.e., the notion that US constitutional interpretation should remain unaffected by transnational legal trends and developments. This recent [essay (subscription req’d)](http://papers.s...
2005-01-10	https://opiniojuris.org/2005/01/10/un-worth-saving/	un-worth-saving	Julian Ku	Peggy, Thanks for getting us off to a great start. The United Nations will no doubt be a perennial topic for us here. The UN is obviously having a rough period, at least in the U.S., where congressional committees are harassing it and certain right-leaning parts of the media are relentlessly attacking it. The right...
2004-11-18	https://opiniojuris.org/2004/11/18/welcome/	welcome	Chris Borgen	Welcome to Opinio Juris, a weblog dedicated to reports, commentary, and debate on current developments and scholarship in the fields of international law and politics. Our modest goal is to share with our readers a variety of perspectives on the role of international law in the U.S. and around the globe and to stim...
2005-01-11	https://opiniojuris.org/2005/01/11/justices-breyer-and-scalia-on-foreign-decisions-and-us-constitutional-law/	justices-breyer-and-scalia-on-foreign-decisions-and-us-constitutional-law	Chris Borgen	A quick note for anyone interested: a student has e-mailed me that this Thursday at 4:00 pm Eastern, C-Span will be airing a discussion with Supreme Court Justices Antonin Scalia and Stephen Breyer on “Whether Foreign Court Decisions Should Impact American Constitutional Law.”
2005-01-10	https://opiniojuris.org/2005/01/10/un-heal-thyself/	un-heal-thyself	Peggy McGuinness	The Volcker Commission investigating fraud in the UN Iraq oil-for-food program [released](http://www.icc-offp.org/) dozens of internal UN audit documents this weekend along with a statement that UN auditors knew of at least $5 million in losses resulting from mismanagement of the program. The full report on the oil-for...
2005-01-11	https://opiniojuris.org/2005/01/11/chertoff-and-the-international-criminal-court/	chertoff-and-the-international-criminal-court	Julian Ku	On a tangentially related topic, President Bush [announced today](http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/4165507.stm) that he is nominating Judge Michael Chertoff to be the new Homeland Security chief. I don’t know all that much about Judge Chertoff, except that he is well-respected in [conservative circles](http://www.na...
2005-01-10	https://opiniojuris.org/2005/01/10/saving-the-un-from-itself-and-others/	saving-the-un-from-itself-and-others	Chris Borgen	Peggy and Julian have started us off with some great opening questions on UN reform. Also in the spirit of tossing our some preliminary comments, I want to begin by asking what it is we are actually debating about. Criticisms of the UN generally come under two broad categories: means and ends. Critiques of the means ...
2005-01-11	https://opiniojuris.org/2005/01/11/double-standards-and-the-un/	double-standards-and-the-un	Julian Ku	Just a quick note, because I think Chris’ thoughtful response also illustrates part of the problem I was trying to get at in my first post. That is to say, do defenders of the UN engage in kneejerk defenses of the UN simply because their commitment to the UN’s causes (e.g. world peace or, if you like, multilateral poli...
2005-01-12	https://opiniojuris.org/2005/01/12/brian-tamanahas-on-the-rule-of-law/	brian-tamanahas-on-the-rule-of-law	Chris Borgen	My next post will concern some issues of accountability and the rule of law, but I wanted to point out to anyone who may be interested that Cambridge University Press has just published a book entitled On the Rule of Law: History, Politics, Theory by my colleague here at St. John’s Law, Brian Tamanaha. Many lawyers, ...
2005-01-12	https://opiniojuris.org/2005/01/12/the-accountability-problem/	the-accountability-problem	Chris Borgen	I want to weave together a few separate strands from earlier postings, particularly the question of UN accountability, skepticism towards multilateralism, and the rule of law. Julian is concerned about a double standard in which some commentators apply more lenient criteria to UN bad acts than to the U.S. I think we...
2005-01-13	https://opiniojuris.org/2005/01/13/accountability-and-first-principles/	accountability-and-first-principles	Julian Ku	I am enjoying this discussion, not the least because it reveals some of the fundamentally different views of the law, and perhaps the world between Chris and myself. Chris makes a move that I’ve seen many international lawyers make. He concedes there are all sorts of problems with international institutions, but the...
2005-01-13	https://opiniojuris.org/2005/01/13/accountability-slight-return/	accountability-slight-return	Chris Borgen	Julian’s reply is informative but I think he is overstating my point and actually misses the core of my argument. In the end, I think we mean different things when we use the term “accountability.” He writes that I “*concede there are all sorts of problems with international institutions, but then suggests that the U...
2005-01-13	https://opiniojuris.org/2005/01/13/accountability-indeed/	accountability-indeed	Peggy McGuinness	Chris, Julian — It looks like we are not immune from the general tendency of commentators to talk past each other on the question of UN reform and the value of international law and institutions to US interests. Let me try to unpack what we mean by accountability by refining what Chris [referred to](http://lawofnatio...
2005-01-14	https://opiniojuris.org/2005/01/14/john-yoo-rethinks-war-powers/	john-yoo-rethinks-war-powers	Julian Ku	John Yoo, a law professor at the University of California at Berkeley, has become [somewhat well known](http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/5032094/site/newsweek) recently for his role in shaping the Bush Administration’s legal approach to the war on terrorism, and in particular, [the effect of treaties and statutes](http://ww...
2005-01-14	https://opiniojuris.org/2005/01/14/bias-and-decline-at-the-international-court-of-justice/	bias-and-decline-at-the-international-court-of-justice	Julian Ku	One of the things I think we can provide to blog readers is an insight into what international law academics are thinking and writing about. And not just what the three of us are thinking about (as valuable of course as that may be). Peggy has already gotten us started with her post about Peter Spiro’s recent work. In ...
2005-01-15	https://opiniojuris.org/2005/01/15/breyer-v-scalia-on-foreign-law-and-constitutional-interpretation/	breyer-v-scalia-on-foreign-law-and-constitutional-interpretation	Julian Ku	As Chris noted, Justice Breyer and Scalia engaged in an unusual public “conversation” about the use of foreign law in constitutional interpretation last Thursday. The transcript has been posted [here](http://domino.american.edu/AU/media/mediarel.nsf/1D265343BDC2189785256B810071F238/1F2F7DC4757FD01E85256F890068E6E0?Open...
2005-01-18	https://opiniojuris.org/2005/01/18/everyone-is-doing-it-the-wto-plans-reform/	everyone-is-doing-it-the-wto-plans-reform	Julian Ku	Just so they are not left off the international institution reform bandwagon, the WTO released a [study](http://www.wto.org/english/thewto_e/10anniv_e/future_wto_e.pdf) yesterday by a panel of eminent persons proposing certain reforms. The [news coverage](http://www.wto.org/english/thewto_e/10anniv_e/future_wto_e.pdf) ...
2005-01-16	https://opiniojuris.org/2005/01/16/breyer-v-scalia-a-messy-conversation-on-foreign-law/	breyer-v-scalia-a-messy-conversation-on-foreign-law	Peggy McGuinness	Julian, Breyer and Scalia don’t appear to disagree about international or comparative law per se, but about the appropriate role of judges and their use of any non-binding sources of law or information when trying to resolve cases. (In fact, Scalia has stated clearly that he sees it as important and appropria...
2005-01-18	https://opiniojuris.org/2005/01/18/speech-at-the-cia/	speech-at-the-cia	Peggy McGuinness	Julian, I would place CIA officials in much the same category as FSOs, particularly those working under FSO cover at foreign embassies. Limitations on the speech of CIA officials are arguably more important, since the protection of intelligence sources and methods is crucial to our national security. That said, I hav...
2005-01-17	https://opiniojuris.org/2005/01/17/martin-luther-king-jr-and-a-just-world-order/	martin-luther-king-jr-and-a-just-world-order	Chris Borgen	In honor of Martin Luther King Day, I wanted to post a few thoughts on Dr. King’s message and the work of international law. Brian Lehrer on [WNYC](http://www.wnyc.org) has been running a show today of short excerpts of readings in some way reflective of Dr. King’s message but about cultures other than our own. Also, f...
2005-01-18	https://opiniojuris.org/2005/01/18/defending-the-diplomad-sort-of/	defending-the-diplomad-sort-of	Julian Ku	Peggy, I can’t resist just a quick note in defense of one of my favorite blogs, the Diplomad, which you slapped down quite effectively [here](http://lawofnations.blogspot.com/2005/01/diplomatic-discourse-and-dissent.html). I don’t have any reason to doubt that you are right that FS rules and FS norms that are being v...
2005-01-18	https://opiniojuris.org/2005/01/18/personnel-changes-at-the-un/	personnel-changes-at-the-un	Peggy McGuinness	Kenneth Anderson has [an interesting take](http://kennethandersonlawofwar.blogspot.com/) on today’s news reports about changes at the UN and about UN reform more generally.
2005-01-18	https://opiniojuris.org/2005/01/18/ending-world-poverty/	ending-world-poverty	Peggy McGuinness	The UN Millennium Commission issued its [report](http://www.unmillenniumproject.org/html/about.shtm) yesterday on how to combat world poverty. The bottom line: extreme poverty and death by preventable disease can be sharply reduced over the next decade by doubling the amount the developed world spends on aid to the poo...
2005-01-18	https://opiniojuris.org/2005/01/18/diplomatic-discourse-and-dissent/	diplomatic-discourse-and-dissent	Peggy McGuinness	One of Julian’s earlier postings [linked](http://diplomadic.blogspot.com/) to an anonymous group of Republican Foreign Service Officers who appear to have a lot to say — most of it in the form of invective and ad hominem attacks — about the efficacy of UNICEF, foreign aid programs generally, and their fellow American d...
2005-01-20	https://opiniojuris.org/2005/01/20/breyer-v-scalia-its-scalia-in-a-tko/	breyer-v-scalia-its-scalia-in-a-tko	Julian Ku	Like [Kenneth Anderson](http://kennethandersonlawofwar.blogspot.com/2005/01/interpreting-scalia-breyer-debate.html), it’s taken a while for me to digest the Breyer-Scalia “[conversation](http://domino.american.edu/AU/media/mediarel.nsf/0/1F2F7DC4757FD01E85256F890068E6E0?OpenDocument)” on foreign law and constitutional ...
2005-01-19	https://opiniojuris.org/2005/01/19/where-kohs-testimony-went-wrong/	where-kohs-testimony-went-wrong	Julian Ku	I’m a big fan of Harold Koh, who was one of my professors in law school, because he serves as a great role model for all law students interested in international law, government service, and legal academia. That said, I find one important element of his critique very unconvincing. Let me put aside his arguments about...
2005-01-19	https://opiniojuris.org/2005/01/19/harold-kohs-testimony-on-gonzales-nomination/	harold-kohs-testimony-on-gonzales-nomination	Chris Borgen	The testimony of Harold Koh, the Dean of Yale Law School and former Assistant Secretary of State for Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor, before the Senate Judiciary Committee on the nomination of Alberto Gonzales has been made available [here](http://www.law.yale.edu/outside/html/Public_Affairs/552/KohTestimony.pdf). ...
2005-01-19	https://opiniojuris.org/2005/01/19/eric-posner-presentation-at-columbia-law-school/	eric-posner-presentation-at-columbia-law-school	Chris Borgen	As a follow-up to Julian’s earlier post, I wanted to note that one of the co-authors of the recent [paper](http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=642581) assessing bias at the ICJ, Prof. Eric Posner of ther University of Chicago School of Law, will be speaking on this topic at Columbia Law School in New Yor...
2005-01-21	https://opiniojuris.org/2005/01/21/posner-v-hathaway-on-the-value-of-international-law/	posner-v-hathaway-on-the-value-of-international-law	Peggy McGuinness	This week the [Legal Affairs](http://www.legalaffairs.org/issues/January-February-2005/toc.html) Debate Club hosted an [interesting discussion](http://www.legalaffairs.org/webexclusive/debateclub_.msp) between Eric Posner and Oona Hathaway on the value of international law. The central issue explored: If international ...
2005-01-21	https://opiniojuris.org/2005/01/21/where-john-norton-moores-column-went-wrong/	where-john-norton-moores-column-went-wrong	Julian Ku	Just to prove that I am willing to criticize rightward as well as left, my target du jour is [Professor John Norton Moore](http://www.law.virginia.edu/lawweb/faculty.nsf/FHPbI/1359) of the University of Virginia Law School, who published a [blistering column](http://slate.msn.com/id/2112514/) in Slate yesterday slamm...
2005-01-21	https://opiniojuris.org/2005/01/21/international-criminal-court-watch/	international-criminal-court-watch	Julian Ku	I’m no [fan](http://lawofnations.blogspot.com/2005/01/chertoff-and-international-criminal.html) of the ICC, but it is still worthwhile to keep an eye on what it is up to. Thus far, the ICC is fairly dormant, although they do have a few [referrals](http://www.icc-cpi.int/cases.html) arising out of the various conflicts ...
2005-01-23	https://opiniojuris.org/2005/01/23/blogs-on-eu-law-and-politics/	blogs-on-eu-law-and-politics	Chris Borgen	For those interested in following the law and politics of the European Union, two blogs of note: Duke Law School Professor [Francesca Bignami’s](http://www.law.duke.edu/fac/bignami/) EU Law [Web Log](http://www.sparkpod.com/eulaw) is a great place to keep up on Commission decisions, European Court of Justice judgments ...
2005-01-22	https://opiniojuris.org/2005/01/22/september-11-civil-suit-against-saudi-arabia-dismissed/	september-11-civil-suit-against-saudi-arabia-dismissed	Julian Ku	Although this judgment was released a few days ago, it is still worth noting that a federal district court in New York this week issued a [ruling](http://www.nysd.uscourts.gov/rulings/03MDL1570_RCC_011905.PDF) in a mammoth civil suit by family members of September 11 victims against various entities for the attacks. Th...
2005-01-23	https://opiniojuris.org/2005/01/23/wto-watch/	wto-watch	Julian Ku	I rashly [promised](http://lawofnations.blogspot.com/2005/01/everyone-is-doing-it-wto-plans-reform.html) to blog more about the WTO’s recent report by a panel of “wise men” recommending reforms for the trade organization before I realized just how long blogging that whole report would take. Let me instead point you to ...
2005-01-23	https://opiniojuris.org/2005/01/23/goldsmith-comes-out-for-an-icc-referral/	goldsmith-comes-out-for-an-icc-referral	Julian Ku	Harvard law prof and former Bush Administration chief of the Office of Legal Counsel Jack Goldsmith has a [clever op-ed](http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A31594-2005Jan23.html) in the Washington Post today recommending that the U.S. support a Security Council referral of the Darfur atrocities to the ICC. W...
2005-01-23	https://opiniojuris.org/2005/01/23/asia-and-international-law/	asia-and-international-law	Julian Ku	For public international law types, East Asia is a relatively barren place. There are no regional international tribunals and barely any regional international organizations of any importance. It is interesting to compare East Asia to, say, the [Andean Community](http://www.comunidadandina.org/endex.htm) in Latin Amer...
2005-01-21	https://opiniojuris.org/2005/01/21/state-sovereignty-and-international-relations-theory/	state-sovereignty-and-international-relations-theory	Julian Ku	Chris’s colleague Timothy Zick has posted an [article](http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=651381) ,”Are The States Sovereign?” (January 2005). Washington University Law Quarterly, Vol. 83, No. 1, May 2005. The article analyzes the sovereignty of the states of the Union through the lens of international ...
2005-01-23	https://opiniojuris.org/2005/01/23/more-on-breyer-v-scalia/	more-on-breyer-v-scalia	Julian Ku	Following up on our posts [here](http://lawofnations.blogspot.com/2005/01/breyer-v-scalia-on-foreign-law-and.html), [here](http://lawofnations.blogspot.com/2005/01/breyer-v-scalia-messy-conversation-on.html), and [here](http://lawofnations.blogspot.com/2005/01/breyer-v-scalia-its-scalia-in-tko.html) on the Breyer-Scali...
2005-01-24	https://opiniojuris.org/2005/01/24/international-law-colloquia/	international-law-colloquia	Peggy McGuinness	We plan to publicize important academic colloquia on international law as we learn about them. To get us started, I am including a link to the [Northwestern Law School’s International Law Colloquium](http://www.law.northwestern.edu/colloquium/international/) for Spring 2005. Thanks to [Ken Abbot](http://www.law.northwe...
2005-01-23	https://opiniojuris.org/2005/01/23/nixon-era-antiterrorism-panel-documents/	nixon-era-antiterrorism-panel-documents	Chris Borgen	From the “The More Things Change….” Dept: [CNN](http://www.cnn.com/2005/US/01/23/nixon.terrorism.ap/index.html) has picked up a story from AP about the [recently declassified documents](http://wid.ap.org/documents/nixonterror.html) of a Nixon and Ford-era Cabinet Committee to Combat Terrorism. The Committee, which incl...