A5031538291- International Law and Human Rights
- Global Peace and Security Dynamics
- Historical and Contemporary Political Dynamics
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- International Labor and Employment Law
- War, Ethics, and Justification
- World Trade Organization Law
- European and International Law Studies
- State Capitalism and Financial Governance
- Historical Economic and Social Studies
- American Constitutional Law and Politics
- Australian History and Society
- Comparative and International Law Studies
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- Reformation and Early Modern Christianity
- Global Security and Public Health
- Judicial and Constitutional Studies
- Colonialism, slavery, and trade
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UNSW Sydney
2025
College of Law
2020-2024
Cambridge University Press
2022
Australian National University
2020-2021
National University College
2020
The University of Melbourne
2016-2019
Durham University
2015
Given the long history of violent encounters between Global North and South, legal arguments concerning use force are a fertile ground for testing virtues limits Third World Approaches to International Law (TWAIL) as theory aspiring “address material ethical concerns peoples.” This essay examines usefulness TWAIL in context “unwilling or unable” doctrine currently promoted by series Western scholars states order expand scope application right self-defence under Article 51 United Nations...
This article revisits the disintegration of Ottoman Empire and emergence national statehood in Balkans. It traces this transitional process between Congress Berlin 1878 United Nations involvement Greek Civil War (1946–1949). I show that transition from empire to nation-state was overdetermined by partial fragmented, yet influential, internationalization significant questions regarding state building, including decisions about autonomy independence, drawing boundaries, protection minorities...
Abstract While Western imperialism played a crucial role in the creation of modern international law, it is ever more important to analyze engagements non-Western imperialist powers with field so as comprehend changing global patterns legalized violence and expansionism. In this Essay, we Russia's legal arguments support its use force against Ukraine through lens inter-imperial rivalry. doing, call for strict scrutiny deployments jus ad bellum equally by all imperial powers.
Journal Article On international law and Gaza: critical reflections Get access Tor Krever, Krever University of Cambridge, Faculty Law Girton College Corresponding author. Email: tkk24@cam.ac.uk https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4829-0356 Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Marina Veličković, Veličković Warwick Frédéric Mégret, Mégret McGill Karen Engle, Engle Texas School Fionnuala Ní Aoláin, Aoláin Minnesota Robert Knox, Knox Liverpool Shahd Hammouri,...
Abstract This paper revisits the occupation of Iraq between 2003 and 2004. The focus my analysis is agricultural reforms promoted by occupying power, Coalition Provisional Authority, which aimed at marketisation production, enhancement position multi-national agribusiness in total integration global food markets. More specifically, this article maintains that aggressively neoliberal reform Iraq’s agriculture can be better understood as extreme end a wider spectrum promotion state-building...
Abstract Since 2008, a global ‘land rush’ has been unfolding and so have efforts by international, national regional actors to position themselves as the principal authorities in determination of appropriate usages land. This article examines three most influential ‘soft law’ instruments: Principles for Responsible Agricultural Investment; Investment Agriculture Food Systems and; Voluntary Guidelines on Governance Tenure. Despite their substantive differences, all documents share specific...
As struggles over the so-called mega-regionals intensified, a surprising cohort of international lawyers argued publicly against such treaties. This article focuses on certain contributions employing particular mode legalist resistance. Such interventions, I argue, offer welcome insights but, at their core, reaffirm specifically neoliberal way thinking about law, regardless intentions authors.
“The true nature of the international system under which we were living was not realised until it failed.” Karl Polanyi The Great Transformation: Political and Economic Origins Our Time (1944) There is a certain degree irony in writing about Brexit for law journal- read put together, hosted mostly, if exclusively, by ‘experts’. lies fact that outcome UK referendum on EU was, amongst other things, rejection experts; or rather, current mobilizations expertize political allegiances large number...
ABSTRACT Scholars and practitioners of international investment law have repeatedly attempted to legitimise the field by presenting it as an antidote against arbitrary excessive powers (postcolonial) state. Early cases, such AAPL v. Sri Lanka, contributed this popular, yet ultimately unpersuasive, argument seemingly constraining conduct warfare in Global South. My contribution questions received wisdom so doing shows that repressive state violence is not simply permitted but even mandated...
This article reconstructs how democratic participation and interference can be fended off by the construction of an international authoritarian political architecture a strongly legalised specific form market economy. We do this interrogating International Territorial Administration (ITA) regulations established to administer post-conflict Kosovo post-invasion Iraq. In following executive decrees largely unaccountable policy-making bureaucracy in reforming agricultural sector, demonstrates...
Reflecting upon critical international scholarship and its evolution through time, this review essay focuses on a volume co-edited by José María Beneyto David Kennedy, along with as sistant editors, Justo Corti Varela John Haskell, the history of new approaches to law (NAIL) work Kennedy. Considering individual contributions book, argues that while influence NAIL younger scholars, or ‘mainstream’, is beyond contestation, it questionable what extent intellectual priorities institutional...
The premise of this special issue is that while race and racism are central to the constitution international economic law (IEL), have seldom been analytical categories for understanding IEL its operations historically or in contemporary moment. Racism often considered be a cultural political phenomenon unrelated global economy. also stranger IEL. To correct both gaps, places intersection between economy at heart scholarship practice. do so, we invited contributors adopt racial capitalism as...
Abstract Despite minimal prospects of success, international lawyers spent the first few months global pandemic discussing whether rules state responsibility could be invoked against states, especially China, for their acts and omissions regarding COVID -19. In this piece, we take these debates seriously, if not necessarily literally. We argue that unrealistic nature does make them irrelevant. Rather, propose an ideology critique as a legal field. Our approach is two-fold. First, need to...