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Contingency in International Law

Could international law have turned out differently? What were contingent crossings at which international law could have taken different avenues? And why might it be worth thinking counter-factually? This Symposium, organized together with OpinioJuris, discusses the volume “Contingency in International Law – on the Possibility of Different Legal Histories”, edited by Ingo Venzke and Kevin Jon Heller and published in April 2021 (Oxford University Press).

How Could International Law Have Been Otherwise? A Rejoinder

18.06.2021
Ingo Venzke
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Revisiting the Impossible

18.06.2021
Doreen Lustig
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Planned Obsolescence of International Law

17.06.2021
Marina Veličković
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Contingency “Between” and “Beyond”

17.06.2021
Vidya Kumar
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Thinking Like ‘Fools’: Recovering the Radical Potential of Contingency in International Law

16.06.2021
Kanad Bagchi
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Are What-Ifs a Virtual Experiment or a Parlour Game?

16.06.2021
Hirofumi Oguri
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Contingency in the History of International Law?

15.06.2021
Ntina Tzouvala
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New Music for Old Ears

14.06.2021
Adeel Hussain
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Book Review Symposium: Contingency in International Law

14.06.2021
Raffaela Kunz Raphael Oidtmann Anna-Julia Saiger
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