Imperialism, Commodification and Emancipation in International Law and World...
Note from the Editors: We conclude 2017 with a roundtable discussion of the second edition of Professor B.S. Chimni’s International Law and World Order: A Critique of Contemporary Approaches. Given...
View ArticleConcluding Response from Professor Chimni: International Law and World Order
Note from the Editors: We conclude 2017 with a roundtable discussion of the second edition of Professor B.S. Chimni’s International Law and World Order: A Critique of Contemporary Approaches. Given...
View ArticleThe Parochialism of Western Cosmopolitanism in a Competitive World Order
This post is part of the Joint Symposium that we are co-hosting with Opinio Juris on Anthea Roberts’ new book Is International Law International? (OUP, 2017). We are familiar with the question: Is...
View ArticleCan International Law Be More International?
This post is part of the Joint Symposium that we are co-hosting with Opinio Juris on Anthea Roberts’ new book Is International Law International? (OUP, 2017). In her monograph Anthea Roberts has...
View ArticleA Word on the Comparative Approach of International Law and a Proposed...
This post is part of the Joint Symposium that we are co-hosting with Opinio Juris on Anthea Roberts’ new book Is International Law International? (OUP, 2017). Professor Roberts’s thought-provoking...
View ArticleIs International Law International? Continuing the Conversation
This post is part of the Joint Symposium that we are co-hosting with Opinio Juris on Anthea Roberts’ new book Is International Law International? (OUP, 2017). In the movie Shadowlands, the character...
View ArticleReinventing Multilateral Cybersecurity Negotiation after the Failure of the...
While the failure of cyber security negotiations under the auspices of the UN GGE has created a huge void in international regulation, recent cyber-attacks with global reach have shown that action is...
View ArticleSecurity Council Resolutions as Evidence of Customary International Law
In 2012 the International Law Commission began to address one of the last major uncodified areas of public international law: how norms of customary law (CIL) are to be identified. The exercise at the...
View ArticleTimes Are Changing – and What About the International Rule of Law Then?
Note from the Editors: This week we hold the first EJIL:Talk! Contributing Editors’ Debate, where some or all of our distinguished Contributing Editors lend their views on broad themes of...
View ArticleInternational Law in “Turbulent Times,” Part I
Note from the Editors: This week we hold the first EJIL:Talk! Contributing Editors’ Debate, where some or all of our distinguished Contributing Editors lend their views on broad themes of...
View ArticleInternational Law in “Turbulent Times,” Part II
Note from the Editors: This week we hold the first EJIL:Talk! Contributing Editors’ Debate, where some or all of our distinguished Contributing Editors lend their views on broad themes of...
View ArticleDecline and crisis: a plea for better metaphors and criteria
Note from the Editors: This week we hold the first EJIL:Talk! Contributing Editors’ Debate, where some or all of our distinguished Contributing Editors lend their views on broad themes of...
View ArticleThe Thickening of the International Rule of Law in ‘Turbulent’ Times
Note from the Editors: This week we hold the first EJIL:Talk! Contributing Editors’ Debate, where some or all of our distinguished Contributing Editors lend their views on broad themes of...
View ArticleTurbulent Times for the International Rule of Law: A Reply
Note from the Editors: This post concludes our first EJIL:Talk! Contributing Editors’ Debate, where our distinguished Contributing Editors lent their views on broad themes of international law and...
View ArticleDo We Need Another Database of International Law Documents?
Online databases and repositories appear to be the new golden calf of law publishers which have invested a lot of money in these new academic products. Some publishers secured an early lead position in...
View ArticleReply to Dunoff and Pollack: ‘Experimenting with International Law’
In the last issue of the European Journal of International Law we published an experimental study on the ability of international law students and experts to ignore information in the context of treaty...
View Article70 Years of the International Law Commission: Drawing a Balance for the Future
This post, and its sister post on OpinioJuris, mark the start of the seventieth session of the International Law Commission. Under the theme “70 years of the International Law Commission: Drawing a...
View ArticleFounding “Fathers” of International Law: Recognizing Christine de Pizan
Editor’s Note: This post was first published by the author in French in the Galerie des internationalistes francophones (Gallery of French-Speaking Internationalists) on the website of the French...
View ArticleThe Future of International Law in an Authoritarian World
In this short review essay, I would like to offer some thoughts on the future of international law in an increasingly authoritarian world. Even for a discipline which loves a crisis, these are perhaps...
View ArticleBest Practice – Writing a Peer-Review Report
The importance of peer review has, if anything, increased in recent times. The enthrallment of current academia with ‘objective’ quantitative measures in the processes of selection, promotion and...
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