Hendrik Simon

Hendrik Simon is Researcher at the Peace Research Institute Frankfurt and Lecturer at Goethe University Frankfurt. Among his main publications is ‘The Myth of Liberum Ius ad Bellum. Justifying War in 19th-Century Legal Theory and Political Practice’, in The European Journal of International Law (2018). He is an editor at Völkerrechtsblog.

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International Law and Class Dynamics

10.06.2022
Umut Özsu Hendrik Simon
In the face of massive crises and revealed ambiguities of the liberal international order, Marxist thought has experienced a significant revival in recent years—also in (international) legal thought. But what...
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Revolutions Are Not Made by Laws

09.06.2022
Umut Özsu Hendrik Simon
In the face of massive crises and revealed ambiguities of the liberal international order, Marxist thought has experienced a significant revival in recent years—also in (international) legal thought. But what...
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On History, Responsibility and Critique

25.05.2022
Anne Orford Sué González Hauck Hendrik Simon
While in the first part of our conversation with Anne Orford we talked about the politics of "turning to history" in international legal scholarship, the second part is about possible...
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Turning to History – A Political Project?

24.05.2022
Anne Orford Sué González Hauck Hendrik Simon
In the last 30 years, a considerable part of international legal scholarship has discovered a renewed interest in the history of international law. But is this 'turn to history' perhaps...
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Returning ‘To the Uttermost Parts of the Earth’

20.05.2022
Martti Koskenniemi Ankit Malhotra Christian Pogies Hendrik Simon
Following the Völkerrechtsblog symposium on Martti Koskenniemi’s new book, our editorial board members Christian Pogies and Hendrik Simon were invited by Ankit Malhotra of the Jindal Society of International Law...
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Sentiment without Sentimentality

08.04.2022
Gerry Simpson Hendrik Simon
In his new book, Gerry Simpson engages with the ‘Sentimental Life of International Law’ (OUP 2021). But what does ‘sentiment’ – without sentimentality, as the author points out – mean...
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Aggression and the ‘Civilizational Turn’ in Russian Politics of International Law

25.02.2022
Lauri Mälksoo Hendrik Simon
When waking up on 24 February, a glance at the news made it clear that our worst fears have been realized: Russia is waging an aggressive war against Ukraine. On...
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(Writing) International Legal Histories – Continuation of Politics by Other Means?

17.09.2021
Anne Peters Raphael Schäfer Hendrik Simon
Dear Professor Peters, dear Mr. Schäfer – to begin with the genesis of your anthology Politics and the Histories of International Law: How did this publication project come about? Where...
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Völkerrechtsgeschichte (schreiben) – Fortsetzung der Politik mit anderen Mitteln?

17.09.2021
Anne Peters Raphael Schäfer Hendrik Simon
Liebe Frau Professorin Peters, lieber Herr Schäfer - um mit der Entstehungsgeschichte Ihres Sammelbandes „Politics and the Histories of International Law“ zu beginnen: Wie kam es zu diesem Publikationsprojekt? Wo würden Sie...
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International Law and the Political: Setting the Scene

17.09.2021
Hendrik Simon
With this blogpost we start our new interview series ‘International Law and the Political’. Regardless of one’s school of thought, it can hardly be contested today that international law is...
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Legal Imagination as Bricolage

23.08.2021
Christian Pogies Hendrik Simon
The publication of Martti Koskenniemi’s new book marks a much-anticipated event among scholars working on the Theory and History of International Law. This may come as little surprise, given that...
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  • The Justification of War and International Order

Discourses of Power and Normativity

04.06.2021
Lothar Brock Hendrik Simon
We would like to thank the contributors as well as the editorial team at Völkerrechtsblog, and particularly Sué González Hauck, for putting together this thought-provoking symposium on “The Justification of...
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Governing the world through information (law)

09.04.2020
Hendrik Simon
Knowledge is power – power is knowledge. While this nexus certainly is a commonplace in the critical sociology of knowledge, it may actually never have been more topical than today....
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