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The History of International Law – or International Law in History? A Reply...
Can international law scholars be historians, and should they be? This question, arguably at the centre of Alexandra Kemmerer’s post, might initially seem surprising. At first glance, most research on...
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Are Functionalism’s Flaws Fatal?
Jan Klabbers’ two decades of “obsession” with functionalism as a theory of international organizations law (IOL) pays off in this article. It is a highly perceptive analysis of the evolution of...
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On My Way Out – Advice to Young Scholars I: Presenting a Paper in an...
I first published this piece in an Editorial for the benefit of I.CON readers, but in the light of my recent experience at the ASIL Annual Meeting and in view of the forthcoming ESIL Annual Conference,...
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Does “Russian international law” have an international academic future?
Since Russia’s annexation of Crimea in March 2014, we have had a chance to hear quite a few arguments advanced by Russian scholars at various legal conferences and law journals (see, for example, here...
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Temporary Problems and Temporary Responses in International Law
This post is a reaction to an ESIL Reflection written by Ramses Wessel and Monika Ambrus and entitled “Between Pragmatism and Predictability: Temporariness in International Law”. Their piece...
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2015 ESIL Annual Conference Final Lecture: Developments in Geopolitics – The...
Editors Note: The European Society of International Law held the 2015 ESIL Annual Conference from 10–12 September 2015 on “The Judicialization of International Law – A Mixed Blessing?” The event,...
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Curriculum Vitae: A Prequel | The Video
Earlier this week, we reproduced in two posts on EJIL:Talk! Roger O’Keefe’s insighful and hilarious Inaugural Lecture, delivered at UCL at the end of 2015. It is now available as an online video. In...
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Response to Başak Çali’s ESIL Reflection: The Disciplinary Account of the...
In a recent ESIL Reflection, Başak Çali addresses the sufficiency of the standard view on the form and justification of the authority of international law against some of the key critical challenges:...
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The Supremacy of International Law? – Part One
Editor’s Note: This is the text of the 2nd Annual British Embassy (The Hague) International Law Lecture, delivered on 23 May 2016 (part one of two). My topic is The Supremacy of International Law? I...
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The Supremacy of International Law? – Part Two
Editor’s Note: This is the text of the 2nd Annual British Embassy (The Hague) International Law Lecture, delivered on 23 May 2016 (part two of two). Part one is available here. The relevance,...
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Russia and China Challenge the Western Hegemony in the Interpretation of...
On 25 June 2016, the Presidents of Russia and China adopted a common Declaration on the Promotion of International Law in Beijing. The Declaration has already been subject to insightful commentary in...
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Joint Series on International Law and Armed Conflict: Rachel VanLandingham on...
The fourth post in our joint blog series arising from the 2016 Transatlantic Workshop on International,’The Procedural Regulation of Detention in Armed Conflict’- by Rachel E. VanLandingham...
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Joint Series on International Law and Armed Conflict: Janina Dill on...
The final installment of our joint blog series arising out of the 2016 Transatlantic Workshop on International Law and Armed Conflict, ‘Assessing Proportionality: An Unreasonable Demand on the...
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The Al Mahdi Judgment and Sentence at the ICC: A Source of Cautious Optimism...
On 27 September 2016, Trial Chamber VIII of the International Criminal Court (ICC) rendered its judgment and sentence in Prosecutor vs. Ahmad Al Faqi Al Mahdi. This case deals with the destruction in...
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Remaking Globalization for the Local: The Real Search for Equality and...
From Western liberal democracies in the United States and the European Union, to historically democratic developing countries such as the Philippines, ignored, disenfranchised, and disempowered local...
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Namur Declaration of 5 December 2016: An EU-Values Driven Path to Negotiating...
Distinguished scholars in political economy, international economic governance, economics and law, have weighed in on how international economic agreements must be negotiated (or renegotiated). Paris...
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Gender Justice Legacies at the ICC. Book Discussion
Louise Chappell’s The Politics of Gender Justice at the International Criminal Court: Legacies and Legitimacy is a wonderfully-written account of the recent history of the International Criminal...
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Identifying the Language of Peace: Developing the Practical and Theoretical...
After a year which saw an unprecedented number of people displaced by violent conflict, and peace processes suffering setback after setback, from the repeated ceasefire violations reported in Yemen to...
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How Much Public International Law Scholarship is There?
Two years ago I started to try and keep track of and categorize all of the PIL books published in a year. That yielded a figure of about 400 in English, French, and German. I wanted to count journal...
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Asia’s Ambivalence About International Law & Institutions: Introduction to...
A decade after moving from New York to Singapore, I began work on this article in the hope of understanding what seemed to me a paradox. Well into the much-vaunted “Asian century”, the states of this...
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