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Professor Hilary Charlesworth, Harrison Moore Professor of Law and a Melbourne Laureate Professor at Melbourne Law School and judge at the International Court of Justice joins us to talk about feminism in international law and the textuality/visuality divide.

Publications mentioned in the episode:


Charlesworth, Hilary, Christine Chinkin, and Shelley Wright. 'Feminist Approaches to International Law' AJIL 85(4) (1991) 613-645.
Charlesworth, Hilary, Christine Chinkin. The Boundaries of International Law. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2022.
Charlesworth, Hilary. 'The Art of International Law' Proceedings of the ASIL Annual Meeting, vol. 116 (2022) 7-24.
Engle Merry, Sally. Human Rights and Gender Violence: Translating International Law into Local Justice. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2006.

Dr Emily Jones joins us to talk about posthuman feminism in international law.

Publications mentioned in the episode:


Briadotti, Rose. The Posthuman (Polity, 2013).
Charlesworth, Hilary, Christine Chinkin and Shelley Wright. ‘Feminist Approaches to International Law’. American Journal of International Law, Vol. 85(4) (1991): 613–45.
Haraway, Donna. ‘A Cyborg Manifesto’, in David Bell and Barbara M. Kennedy (eds.), The Cybercultures Reader (Routledge, 2001): 291–324.
Jones, Emily. Feminist Theory and International Law: Posthuman Perspectives (Routledge, 2023).
Kulamadayil, Lyz. ‘Ableism in the College of International Lawyers: On Disabling Differences in the Professional Field’. Leiden Journal of International Law (2023).

Dr Alex Green (University of York) joins us to talk about natural law and international law, and statehood.

Publications mentioned in the episode:


Grotius, Hugo. De Jure Belli ac Pacis, 1652.


Dworkin, Ronald. ''Natural' Law Revisited'. Florida Law Review 34 (1982) 165-188.


Lauterpacht, Hersch. 'The Grotian Tradition in International Law' BYIL 23 (I) (1946) 1-53.


Green, Alex. 'The Precarious Rationality of International Law: Critiquing the International Rule of Recognition' German Law Journal 22(8) (2021) 1613-1634.


Green, Alex. 'The Creation of States as a Cardinal Point: James Crawford's Contribution to International Legal Scholarship' AYBIL 40 (1) (2023) 67-88.


Waldron, Jeremy. Law and Disagreement. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1999.


Garnder, John. 'Legal Positivism: 5½ Myths' American Journal of Jurisprudence 46(1) (2001) 199-227.


Waldron, Jeremy. 'The Concept and the Rule of Law' Georgia Law Review 43(1) (2008) 1-61.


Green, Alex. Statehood as Political Community: International Law and the Emergence of New States, CUP (forthcoming).


Stewart, Melissa. 'The Cascading Consequences of Sinking States' Stanford Journal of International Law (forthcoming).

Dr Tamsin Phillipa Paige (Deakin Law School) joins us to talk about sociology of international law, queer theory, and French pâtisserie.

Publications mentioned in the episode:


Paige, Tamsin. “Piracy and universal jurisdiction.” Macquarie Law Journal, 12 (2013): 131–154. 
Guilfoyle, Douglas, Tamsin Paige, Rob Mclaughlin. “The Final Frontier of Cyberspace: The Seabed Beyond National Jurisdiction and the Protection of Submarine Cables.” International and Comparative Law Quarterly, 71 (2022): 657-696.
Paige, Tamsin. “Petulant and Contrary: Approaches by the Permanent Five Members of the UN Security Council to the Concept of 'threat to the Peace' Under Article 39 of the UN Charter”. Deakin University, January 1, 2019.
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Our first bonus episode, just in time for the holiday season!
Publications referred to in the episode:


Álvarez, Alejandro. 'Latin America and International Law'. The American Journal of International Law 3, no. 2 (1909): 269–353.
Roberts, Anthea. Is International Law International? New York: Oxford University Press, 2017.
Calvo, Carlos and Alcorta, Amancio. 'Polémica Calvo-Alcorta'. Nueva Revista de Buenos Aires 3, vol. 8 (1883): 629-658.
Bello, Andrés. Principios de derecho internacional. Valparaiso: La Patria, 1864.
Chehtman, Alejandro. The Philosophical Foundations of Extraterritorial Punishment. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010

Professor Alejandro Chehtman (Universidad Torcuato Di Tella) joins us to talk about revisionist just war theory, non-international armed conflicts, and crimes against humanity.

Publications referred to in the episode:


Greene, Joshua. Moral Tribes. London: Atlantic Books, 2015.
van Dijk, Boyd. Preparing for War. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2022.
Sands, Philippe. East West Street. London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2016.
Haque, Adil Ahmad. Law and Morality at War. New York: Oxford University Press, 2017.
Scheipers, Sibylle, Unlawful Combatants: A Genealogy of the Irregular Fighter. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2015.
Morrow, James D. Order within Anarchy: The Laws of War as an International Institution. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2014.
Schweblin, Samantha. Seven Empty Houses. London: Oneworld Publications, 2022.
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