Alex Green

Alex Green is a general public international lawyer and legal, moral, and political philosopher with particular expertise in the law of State creation, continuty, identity, and extinction. His research also addresses self-determination, the nature of law and legal reasoning, and the the concept of legal pluralism.

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The Power of ‘Constructive Misreading’

Earlier this year, the United Nations General Assembly adopted resolution A/80/L.65, which seeks to ‘translate’ last year’s Advisory Opinion from the International Court of Justice (ICJ) on Obligations of States in...

Symposium
Progress and International Law: A Cursed Relationship?

Towards an (Im)possible Polis: Legal Imagination and State Continuity

Thomas Baty once quipped that ‘[i]nternational law, it is generally agreed, has something to do with states’. By opening The Canons of International Law in this manner, Baty draws our...