International Legal Theory Archives

Symposium
Book Review
The Theory, Practice, and Interpretation of Customary International Law

Editors’ Response

17.11.2023

Panos Merkouris Jörg Kammerhofer Noora Arajärvi

We would like to thank the editors of the Völkerrechtsblog for organising this symposium on The Theory, Practice, and Interpretation of Customary International Law, and the commentators for thoughtfully and...

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Book Review
The Theory, Practice, and Interpretation of Customary International Law

Reflections on Customary International Law and Interpretation

15.11.2023

Orfeas Chasapis Tassinis

It is not often that one reads about Schrödinger's cat, the particle and wave qualities of light, and Latour’s idea that modern discourses are always driven by their foundational contradictions...

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Book Review
The Theory, Practice, and Interpretation of Customary International Law

The Practical Question of the Interpretation of Customary International Law

14.11.2023

Eirik Bjorge

The featured monograph in this symposium – The Theory, Practice, and Interpretation of Customary International Law – offers welcome engagement with the question of whether there can be such a...

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The Theory, Practice, and Interpretation of Customary International Law

Legal Appropriation or Rechtsnahme through Customary International Law

13.11.2023

Monica Garcia-Salmones

Legal Appropriation or, what is the same, Rechtsnahme means in this contribution the space of human interaction that is appropriated by international judges, lawyers and other legal actors when they...

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Book Review
The Theory, Practice, and Interpretation of Customary International Law

Introducing the Book Review Symposium on “The Theory, Practice, and Interpretation of Customary International Law”

13.11.2023

Jan-Henrik Hinselmann Spyridoula (Sissy) Katsoni Raphael Oidtmann

This summer, Judge Hilary Charlesworth made international lawyers very happy (some of them at least) when her dissenting opinion appended to the judgment of the International Court of Justice in...

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Interview
International Law and the Political

Relapse into ‘Civilisation’?! A Narrative’s Continuity and Change

01.02.2023

Ntina Tzouvala Hendrik Simon

Critical International Law has become increasingly influential in academic discourse. However, argues Ntina Tzouvala, there remain important blind spots. An interview on capitalism, racism, and the ongoing impact of ‘civilisation’....

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Interview
International Law and the Political

(Merging the) Fragments of Critical International Law

31.01.2023

Ntina Tzouvala Hendrik Simon

Critical International Law has become increasingly influential in academic discourse. However, argues Ntina Tzouvala, there remain important blind spots. An interview on capitalism, racism, and the ongoing impact of ‘civilisation’....

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International Law and the Political

Can We Trust Each Other?

15.11.2022

Filipe dos Reis Hendrik Simon

Interdisciplinarity still seems to be the order of the day. Despite its many advantages, it tends to be a sometimes-ambivalent undertaking: demanded in academia’s bureaucracies (for funding applications, no less),...