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 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2016). Anne Orford, “In Praise of Description”, Leiden Journal of International Law 25, no. 3 (2012): 609–25.  Pierre Schlag, “A Brief Survey of Deconstruction”, Cardozo Law Review 27, no. 2 (2005): 741–52.  Amia Srinivasan, “Genealogy, Epistemology and Worldmaking”, Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society CXIX, no. 2 (2019): 127–56.  Annalise Riles, “Legal Amateurism”, Cornell Legal Studies Research Paper no. 16-41.  Oliver Wendell Holmes, “The Path of Law”, Harvard Law Review 10 (1897): 457–97.  Duncan Kennedy, “The Hermeneutic of Suspicion in Contemporary American Legal Thought”, Law and Critique 25 (2014): 91–139.  Onuma Yasuaki, “When was the Law of International Society Born?”, Journal of the History of International Law 2 (2000): 1–66.  Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, “Paranoid Reading and Reparative Reading; or, You’re So Paranoid, You Probably Think This Introduction is About You” in Touching Feeling (Durham: Duke University Press, 2003), 123–52.