International law and lawyers are quite against circular things.

Lex erotica? From interpretation to composition

Image: Place markers in preparation for the Bandung Conference, 1955 (Howard Sochurek). This post is the second in the mini symposium, International Law in the Current Moment.   A couple of weeks ago ...

The two biggest issues confronting universities in the last year have been the threat of AI and the genocide in Palestine. This is not a coincidence.

Fin de siècle international law - Volume 38 Issue 3

Remembering why we learn

IntroductionDevon W. Carbado, Kimberlé Williams Crenshaw, Justin Desautels-Stein, and Chantal ThomasIHistories and Structures1.Race and Empire in International LawE. Tendayi Achiume and Aslı Bâli

On canonical texts

Early in my doctoral research, I came across many fascinating and strange texts.

I'm an academic based in The Netherlands teaching & writing about international law, as well as other things that take my fancy.

In The justice factory, Richard Clements explores the relationship between global justice and management discourses that permeate the International Crimina

What do international institutional lawyers see when they peek out from a window? If, as David Kennedy argues, public international lawyers see a “world of nation-states and war” while trade lawyers s...

Paul McCartne, Elton John and others signed an open letter.

Cambridge Core - Public International Law - Toward an Abolitionist Human Rights Court

At 3am on Wednesday 16th April 2025, after three years of intense negotiations, WHO member states (minus the United States) preliminarily consented to a final text of the so-called Pandemic Agreement....

The agreement is designed to ensure more cooperation between nations in the event of another pandemic.

Members of the World Health Organization are close to a deal on a treaty to prepare for future pandemics, sources involved in the talks told Reuters on Saturday, with a WHO spokesperson saying discussions had been paused until Tuesday.

Welcome to Cambridge Core

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In recent weeks, U.S. President Donald J. Trump has unequivocally expressed his desire to purchase Greenland, which holds a constitutional status within the Danish ‘Unity of the Realm’ under the fr…

Leiden Journal of International Law

A global treaty to curb plastic pollution has failed to materialize following four years of international negotiations.

Next week, states will convene in Busan, South Korea, for the fifth – and in theory final – session of the Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee (INC) to develop an international legally binding …

ALT: a bald man wearing glasses and a black suit says a queen gotta do what a queen gotta do

Richard Clements (Tilburg Univ. - Law) has published The Justice Factory: Management Practices at the International Criminal Court (Cambridge Univ. Press 2023). Here's the abstract:Spend time at the International Criminal Court, and you will hear the…

Cambridge Core - International Relations and International Organisations - The Justice Factory