Episode 19: Alex Green on Natural Law, Statehood and International Law Borderline Jurisprudence

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).