Gerry Simpson was appointed to a Chair in Public International Law at the LSE in January, 2016. He is the author of Great Powers and Outlaw States (Cambridge, 2004); Law, War and Crime: War Crimes Trials and the Reinvention of International Law (Polity 2007), and The Sentimental Life of International Law (Oxford, 2021). He is currently co-writing an international legal history of the Cold War (with Matt Craven and Sundhya Pahuja) and a philosophical memoir entitled The Atomics: My Amero-Soviet Childhood.
We welcome contributions on all topics relating to international law and international legal thought. Please take our Directions for Authors and/or Guidelines for Reviews into account.You can send us your text, or get in touch with a preliminary inquiry at: