Borderline Jurisprudence – Details, episodes & analysis

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).

Francesca Iurlaro, Alexander von Humboldt postdoctoral researcher at Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law, joins us to discuss jus gentium, the history of customary international law, Gentili, historiography and hope.

Publications mentioned in the episode:

Francesca Iurlaro, The Invention of Custom, Natural Law and the Law of Nations, ca. 1550-1750 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, forthcoming).

Martti Koskenniemi, To the Uttermost Parts of the Earth, Legal Imagination and International Power 1300-1870 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2021).

Francesca Iurlaro, “Disenchanting Gentili: Chapter 3: Italian Lessons. Ius Gentium and Reason of States”, European Journal of International Law 32, no. 3 (2021): 965–72.

Francesca Iurlaro, “Between Authority and (In)Authenticity: How Literary Canons Shaped Jus Gentium”, Leiden Journal of International Law, forthcoming.

Christopher N. Warren, Literature and the Law of Nations, 1580-1680 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2015).

Bernard Williams, Truth & Truthfulness: An Essay in Genealogy (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2004).

Dr. Ingo Venzke, Professor of Public International Law at the University of Amsterdam, joins us to talk about semantics in international law, semantic authority, and struggle for meaning.

Publications mentioned in the episode:

Ingo Venzke, How Interpretation Makes International Law: On Semantic Change and Normative Twists (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012).

Hans Kelsen, General Theory of Norms (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1991).

Joseph Raz, Morality of Freedom (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1986).

Joseph Raz, ‘The Problem of Authority: Revisiting the Service Conception’, Minnesota Law Review 90 (2006): 1003–44.

Rudolf von Jhering, The Struggle for Law (Chicago: Callaghan and Company, 1915).

Ingo Venzke and Kevin Jon Heller (eds.), Contingency in International Law: On the Possibility of Different Legal Histories (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2021).

Robert Brandom, Making it Explicit: Reasoning, Representing, and Discursive Commitment (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1998).

Ronald Dworkin, Law's Empire (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1986).

Mohammed Bedjaoui, Towards a New International Economic Order (New York: Holmes & Meier, 1979).

Professor Umut Özsu, Associate Professor at Carleton University, joins us to talk about Marxism and international law, but also history and theory more generally.

Publications mentioned in the episode:

Martti Koskenniemi, The Gentle Civilizer of Nations - The Rise and Fall of International Law 1870-1960 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001).

Anthony Anghie, Imperialism, Sovereignty and the Making of International Law (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005).

Paul O’Connell and Umut Özsu (eds), Research Handbook on Law and Marxism (Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, 2021).

Umut Özsu, Completing Humanity: The International Law of Decolonization (book manuscript under contract with Cambridge University Press, forthcoming in 2022).

Oscar Schachter, “Towards a Theory of International Obligation”, Virginia Journal of International Law 8, no. 2 (1968): 300-22.

Karl Marx, Capital, Volume I (trans. Ben Fowkes) (London: Penguin Books, 1990 [1867]).

Professor Anne Orford, Melbourne Laureate Professor and Michael D Kirby Chair of International Law at Melbourne Law School, joins us to discuss history and international law, and her new book International Law and the Politics of History.

Publications mentioned in the episode:

Anne Orford, International Law and the Politics of History (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2021).

Anne Orford, Florian Hoffman and Martin Clark (eds), The Oxford Handbook of the Theory of International Law (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2016).

Anne Orford, “In Praise of Description”, Leiden Journal of International Law 25, no. 3 (2012): 609–25. 

Pierre Schlag, “A Brief Survey of Deconstruction”, Cardozo Law Review 27, no. 2 (2005): 741–52. 

Amia Srinivasan, “Genealogy, Epistemology and Worldmaking”, Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society CXIX, no. 2 (2019): 127–56. 

Annalise Riles, “Legal Amateurism”, Cornell Legal Studies Research Paper no. 16-41. 

Oliver Wendell Holmes, “The Path of Law”, Harvard Law Review 10 (1897): 457–97. 

Duncan Kennedy, “The Hermeneutic of Suspicion in Contemporary American Legal Thought”, Law and Critique 25 (2014): 91–139. 

Onuma Yasuaki, “When was the Law of International Society Born?”, Journal of the History of International Law 2 (2000): 1–66. 

Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, “Paranoid Reading and Reparative Reading; or, You’re So Paranoid, You Probably Think This Introduction is About You” in Touching Feeling (Durham: Duke University Press, 2003), 123–52.

Prof. Harlan G. Cohen (University of Georgia) joins us to talk about sources of international law, precedent, opinio juris, fragmentation, pluralism and behavioural approaches to international law.

Publications referred to in the episode:

Harlan G. Cohen, “The Primitive Lawyer Speaks!: Thoughts on the Concepts of International and Rabbinic Laws”, Villanova Law Review 64, no. 5 (2020): 665–678.

Emanuel Adler, Communitarian International Relations: The epistemic foundations of International Relations (London: Routledge, 2005).

Harlan G. Cohen, “Finding International Law: Rethinking the Doctrine of Sources”, Iowa Law Review 93, no. 1 (2007): 65–129.

Harlan G. Cohen, “Finding International Law, Part II: Our Fragmenting Legal Community”, New York University Journal of International Law & Politics 44 (2012): 1050–1107.

Harlan G. Cohen and Timothy Meyer (eds), International Law as Behaviour (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2021).

Chaim N. Saiman, Halakhah: The Rabbinic Idea of Law (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2018).

Robert Cover, Justice Accused: Antislavery and the Judicial Process (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1975).

Robert Cover, “Violence and the Word”, Yale Law Journal 95 (1986): 1601–1629.

Robert Cover, “The Supreme Court, 1982 Term—Foreword: Nomos and Narrative”, Harvard Law Review 97 (1983): 4-68.

Dr. Carmen Pavel (King's College London) joins us to talk about political philosophy of international law, global consitutionalism, the international rule of law, and her new book Law beyond the State: Dynamic Coordination, State Consent, and Binding International Law.

Publications referred to in the episode:

Carmen E. Pavel, Law beyond the State: Dynamic Coordination, State Consent, and Binding International Law (New York: Oxford University Press, 2021).

Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan, or the Matter, Forme, & Power of a Common-wealth Ecclesiasticall and Civill (London, 1651).

David Hume, A treatise of Human Nature; Being an Attempt to Introduce the Experimental Method of Reasoning into Moral Subjects; and Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion (London, 1898).

Judith Butler, The Force of Nonviolence: An Ethico-Political Bind (London: Verso, 2021).

Jeremy Waldron, “Are Sovereigns Entitled to the Benefit of the International Rule of Law?” European Journal of International Law 22, no. 2 (2011): 315–43.

David Lefkowitz, Philosophy and International Law: A Critical Introduction (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020).

Carmen Pavel, Divided Sovereignty: International Institutions and the Limits of State Authority (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014).

Panos Merkouris (University of Groningen) joins us to talk about his ERC project TRICI-Law that focuses on interpretation of customary international law. TRICI-Law's website: https://trici-law.com

Publications mentioned in the episode: 

Merkouris, Panos. Article 31(3)(c) VCLT and the Principle of Systemic Integration, Normative Shadows in Plato's Cave, Leiden: Brill Nijhoff, 2015.

Peter Haggenmacher,  “La  doctrine  des  deux  éléments  du  droit  coutumier  dans  la  pratique  de  la  Cour  internationale”,  Revue Générale de Droit International Public 90 (1986): 5–125.

Monica Hakimi, “Making Sense of Customary International Law”, Michigan Law Review 118, no. 8 (2020): 1487–1538. 

Sur, Serge. “La créativité du droit international”, in Collected Courses of the Hague Academy of International Law, vol. 363, 2013.

Whitehead, Alfred North and Russell, Bertrand. Principia Mathematica, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1910.

Neil Gaiman, The Sandman (comic book). 

Christos Kithreotis (Χρίστος Κυθρεώτης), Ekei Pou Zoume (Εκεί Που Ζούμε), Athens: Patakis (Εκδόσεις Πατάκη), 2019.

Andreas Hadjigeorgiou, special teaching stuff at the Frederick University Cyprus, joins us to discuss the forgotten legacy of the Oxford Jurisprudence Circle and its relevance for international law. Click here for Andreas' SSRN page.

If you are interested, you can request Andreas' PhD thesis or read the summary here:

Hadjigeorgiou, Andreas. ‘Hart and the Oxford Jurisprudence Circle: Rediscovering the Lost Legacy of Customary Law’. Doctoral dissertation, University of Groningen, 2020.

Publications mentioned in the episode:

Hart, H.L.A. The Concept of Law. 3rd edn. Oxford: Oxford Univeristy Press, 2012.

Simpson, A. W. Brian. Reflections on 'The Concept of Law'. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011.

Lacey, Nicola. A Life of H.L.A. Hart: The Nightmare and the Noble Dream. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006.

Tamanaha, Brian Z. A Realistic Theory of Law. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2017.

Maine, Henry Summer. Popular Government. Indianapolis: Liberty Classics, 1976.

Maine, Henry Summer. Ancient Law: Its Connection with the Early History of Society and Its Relation to Modern Ideas. London: John Murray, 1861.

Malinowski, Bronislaw. Crime and Custom in Savage Society. London: K. Paul, Trench, Trubner & co., ltd., 1926.

Llewellyn, Karl. Cheyenne Way: Conflict and Case Law in Primitive Jurisprudence. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1941.

Allen, Carleton K. Law in the Making. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1927.

Postema, Gerald J. 'Implicit Law', Law and Philosophy 13 (1994): 361–387.

Carty, Anthony. Philosophy of International Law. Edinburgh University Press, 2007.