Publications mentioned in the episode: Charlesworth, Hilary, Christine Chinkin, and Shelley Wright. 'Feminist Approaches to International Law' AJIL 85(4) (1991) 613-645. Charlesworth, Hilary, Christine Chinkin. The Boundaries of International Law. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2022. Charlesworth, Hilary. 'The Art of International Law' Proceedings of the ASIL Annual Meeting, vol. 116 (2022) 7-24. Engle Merry, Sally. Human Rights and Gender Violence: Translating International...

Publications mentioned in the episode: Briadotti, Rose. The Posthuman (Polity, 2013). Charlesworth, Hilary, Christine Chinkin and Shelley Wright. ‘Feminist Approaches to International Law’. American Journal of International Law, Vol. 85(4) (1991): 613–45. Haraway, Donna. ‘A Cyborg Manifesto’, in David Bell and Barbara M. Kennedy (eds.), The Cybercultures Reader (Routledge, 2001): 291–324. Jones, Emily. Feminist Theory and International Law: Posthuman Perspectives (Routledge, 2023). ...

Dr Alex Green (University of York) joins us to talk about natural law and international law, and statehood. Publications mentioned in the episode: Grotius, Hugo. De Jure Belli ac Pacis, 1652. Dworkin, Ronald. ''Natural' Law Revisited'. Florida Law Review 34 (1982) 165-188. Lauterpacht, Hersch. 'The Grotian Tradition in International Law' BYIL 23 (I) (1946) 1-53. Green, Alex. 'The Precarious Rationality of International Law: Critiquing the International Rule of Recognition' German...

Publications mentioned in the episode: Paige, Tamsin. “Piracy and universal jurisdiction.” Macquarie Law Journal, 12 (2013): 131–154.  Guilfoyle, Douglas, Tamsin Paige, Rob Mclaughlin. “The Final Frontier of Cyberspace: The Seabed Beyond National Jurisdiction and the Protection of Submarine Cables.” International and Comparative Law Quarterly, 71 (2022): 657-696. Paige, Tamsin. “Petulant and Contrary: Approaches by the Permanent Five Members of the UN Security Council to the Concept of...

Our first bonus episode, just in time for the holiday season! Publications referred to in the episode: Álvarez, Alejandro. 'Latin America and International Law'. The American Journal of International Law 3, no. 2 (1909): 269–353. Roberts, Anthea. Is International Law International? New York: Oxford University Press, 2017. Calvo, Carlos and Alcorta, Amancio. 'Polémica Calvo-Alcorta'. Nueva Revista de Buenos Aires 3, vol. 8 (1883): 629-658. Bello, Andrés. Principios de derecho...

Professor Alejandro Chehtman (Universidad Torcuato Di Tella) joins us to talk about revisionist just war theory, non-international armed conflicts, and crimes against humanity. Publications referred to in the episode: Greene, Joshua. Moral Tribes. London: Atlantic Books, 2015. van Dijk, Boyd. Preparing for War. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2022. Sands, Philippe. East West Street. London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2016. Haque, Adil Ahmad. Law and Morality at War. New York: Oxford...

Professor Martti Koskenniemi (University of Helsinki) joins us to discuss philosophy and history of international law, international legal scholarship, and the Helsinki school. Publications referred to in the episode: Koskenniemi, Martti. From Apology to Utopia: The Structure of International Legal Argument. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006. Koskenniemi, Martti. The Gentle Civilizer of Nations: The Rise and Fall of International Law 1870–1960. Cambridge: Cambridge University...

Professor Başak Çalı (Hertie School) joins us to talk about the authority of international law, Ronald Dworkin's interpretivism, and human rights. Publications referred to in the episode: Çalı, Başak. The Authority of International Law: Obedience, Respect, and Rebuttal. New York: Oxford University Press, 2015. Çalı, Başak. ‘On Interpretivism and International Law’, European Journal of International Law 20, No. 3 (2009): 805–822. Dworkin, Ronald. ‘A New Philosophy for International...

Joseph Raz was one of the most influential legal and political  philosophers who ever lived, and his passing in May 2022 marked the end  of an epoch. The breadth and depth of his philosophical legacy is  unmatched, and yet, unlike many influential legal philosophers (such as  HLA Hart or Hans Kelsen), Raz left very few writings that deal with  jurisprudential questions of international law. Why is that? And how can  we draw on Raz’s ideas about human rights, the concept of a legal  system,...

Professor Jean d'Aspremont (University of Manchester and Sciences Po Paris) joins us to discuss his overall scholarship and his latest book After Meaning.  Publications referred to in the episode: Jean d’Aspremont, Formalism and the Sources of International Law: A Theory of the Ascertainment of Legal Rules (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011). Jean d’Aspremont, Epistemic Forces in International Law (Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, 2015). Jean d’Aspremont, International Law as a Belief System...

Francesca Iurlaro, Alexander von Humboldt postdoctoral researcher at Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law, joins us to discuss jus gentium, the history of customary international law, Gentili, historiography and hope. Publications mentioned in the episode: Francesca Iurlaro, The Invention of Custom, Natural Law and the Law of Nations, ca. 1550-1750 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, forthcoming). Martti Koskenniemi, To the Uttermost Parts of the Earth, Legal...

Dr. Ingo Venzke, Professor of Public International Law at the University of Amsterdam, joins us to talk about semantics in international law, semantic authority, and struggle for meaning. Publications mentioned in the episode: Ingo Venzke, How Interpretation Makes International Law: On Semantic Change and Normative Twists (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012). Hans Kelsen, General Theory of Norms (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1991). Joseph Raz, Morality of Freedom (Oxford: Clarendon...

Professor Umut Özsu, Associate Professor at Carleton University, joins us to talk about Marxism and international law, but also history and theory more generally. Publications mentioned in the episode: Martti Koskenniemi, The Gentle Civilizer of Nations - The Rise and Fall of International Law 1870-1960 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001). Anthony Anghie, Imperialism, Sovereignty and the Making of International Law (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005). Paul O’Connell...

Professor Anne Orford, Melbourne Laureate Professor and Michael D Kirby Chair of International Law at Melbourne Law School, joins us to discuss history and international law, and her new book International Law and the Politics of History. Publications mentioned in the episode: Anne Orford, International Law and the Politics of History (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2021). Anne Orford, Florian Hoffman and Martin Clark (eds), The Oxford Handbook of the Theory of International Law...

Prof. Harlan G. Cohen (University of Georgia) joins us to talk about sources of international law, precedent, opinio juris, fragmentation, pluralism and behavioural approaches to international law. Publications referred to in the episode: Harlan G. Cohen, “The Primitive Lawyer Speaks!: Thoughts on the Concepts of International and Rabbinic Laws”, Villanova Law Review 64, no. 5 (2020): 665–678. Emanuel Adler, Communitarian International Relations: The epistemic foundations of International...

Dr. Carmen Pavel (King's College London) joins us to talk about political philosophy of international law, global consitutionalism, the international rule of law, and her new book Law beyond the State: Dynamic Coordination, State Consent, and Binding International Law. Publications referred to in the episode: Carmen E. Pavel, Law beyond the State: Dynamic Coordination, State Consent, and Binding International Law (New York: Oxford University Press, 2021). Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan, or the...

Panos Merkouris (University of Groningen) joins us to talk about his ERC project TRICI-Law that focuses on interpretation of customary international law. TRICI-Law's website: https://trici-law.com Publications mentioned in the episode:  Merkouris, Panos. Article 31(3)(c) VCLT and the Principle of Systemic Integration, Normative Shadows in Plato's Cave, Leiden: Brill Nijhoff, 2015. Peter Haggenmacher,  “La  doctrine  des  deux  éléments  du  droit  coutumier  dans  la  pratique  de  la...

Andreas Hadjigeorgiou, special teaching stuff at the Frederick University Cyprus, joins us to discuss the forgotten legacy of the Oxford Jurisprudence Circle and its relevance for international law. Andreas' SSRN page: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/cf_dev/AbsByAuth.cfm?per_id=4732614 If you are interested, you can request Andreas' PhD thesis or read the summary here: Hadjigeorgiou, Andreas. ‘Hart and the Oxford Jurisprudence Circle: Rediscovering the Lost Legacy of Customary Law’. Doctoral...

Scott J. Shapiro, Charles F. Southmayd Professor of Law and Professor of Philosophy at Yale Law School, joins us to talk about well, everything, including planning theory of law, outcasting and more. Here's the link to Scott Shapiro's podcast: Jurisprudence Publications referred to in the episode: Oona A. Hathaway and Scott J. Shapiro, The Internationalists: How A Radical Plan to Outlaw War Remade the World (New York: Simon and Schuster, 2017). Oona Hathaway and Scott J Shapiro, ‘Outcasting:...

Monica Hakimi (University of Michigan) joins us to talk about flaws of international legal positivism, interplay between formal and informal law, and customary international law. Publications referred to in the episode: Jutta Brunnée and Stephen J. Toope, Legitimacy and Legality in International Law: An Interactional Account (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2010). Monica Hakimi, ‘The Jus ad Bellum’s Regulatory Form’, American Journal of International Law 112, no. 2 (2018):...

Adil Haque (Rutgers University), author of Law and Morality at War (OUP, 2017) joins us to talk about law and morality. We discuss issues such as positivism, moral impact theory, and jus cogens. Publications referred to in the episode: Emmanuel Voyiakis, 'Customary International Law and the Place of Normative Considerations', American Journal of Jurisprudence 55, no. 1 (2010): 163–200. Mark Greenberg, 'The Moral Impact Theory of Law', Yale Law Journal 123 (2014): 1288–1342. Asif Hameed,...

Ntina Tzouvala (Australian National University) joins us to talk about critical legal studies, and her book, Capitalism As Civilisation: A History of International Law (CUP, 2020). We discuss issues such as critical legal studies in international law, tackling interdisciplinarity, and inclusivity in international law. Publications mentioned in the episode: Ntina Tzouvala, Capitalism as Civilisation: A History of International Law (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020). Pierre...

David Lefkowitz (University of Richmond) joins us for the first episode to talk about his book, Philosophy and International Law: A Critical Introduction (CUP, 2020), and jurisprudence in general. We discuss questions such as: Is there a reason why philosophy of international law is on the rise again? What are the pressing issues that philosophy and jurisprudence of international law has to address? Is international law really a borderline case of law?