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 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2017). Jean d’Aspremont, The Discourse on Customary International Law (New York: Oxford University Press, 2021). Jean d’Aspremont, After Meaning: The Sovereignty of Forms in International Law (Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, 2021). Alasdair MacIntyre, After Virtue: A Study in Moral Theory (Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press, 1981). Jacques Derrida, The Beast and the Sovereign (Chicago: Univerity of Chicago Press, 2009). George Steiner, Errata: An Examined Life (New Havean: Yale University Press, 1999). Jacques Derrida, Le monolinguisme de l'autre (Paris: Galilée, 1996).