A critical perspective on EU externalisation policy reveals how cooperation on migration perpetuates key features of the ‘civilising mission’. This article focuses on the EU-Turkey, EU-Afghanistan, and Italy-Libya cooperation agreements as cornerstones of the EU racialised mobility regime. It shows how these frameworks legitimise externalised controls as a form of benevolence towards Third World migrants and states, and how the EU allocates the responsibility to deal with migration to its partners while keeping its status as a humanitarian actor.
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The war in Gaza is killing home. Some are asking whether domicide should be a crime. But is there more at stake? This essay explores the concept of home in international law, the role of international law in the global regime of homemaking, and the prospects and limits of criminalising the destruction of home.
{"title":"‘Nowhere home’","authors":"Henrietta Zeffert","doi":"10.1093/lril/lrae013","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/lril/lrae013","url":null,"abstract":"The war in Gaza is killing home. Some are asking whether domicide should be a crime. But is there more at stake? This essay explores the concept of home in international law, the role of international law in the global regime of homemaking, and the prospects and limits of criminalising the destruction of home.","PeriodicalId":43782,"journal":{"name":"London Review of International Law","volume":"11 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2024-08-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142203623","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
This article empirically explores whether critique is part of the practice of international law by drawing from citation practices and interviews with actors of international courts and tribunals. It argues that critique is immanent to practice as part of international law’s unending, hermeneutic, and transformative engagement with human society.
{"title":"Is critique part of the practice of international law?","authors":"William Hamilton Byrne","doi":"10.1093/lril/lrae006","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/lril/lrae006","url":null,"abstract":"This article empirically explores whether critique is part of the practice of international law by drawing from citation practices and interviews with actors of international courts and tribunals. It argues that critique is immanent to practice as part of international law’s unending, hermeneutic, and transformative engagement with human society.","PeriodicalId":43782,"journal":{"name":"London Review of International Law","volume":"48 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2024-05-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141147009","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Drawing on three years of empirical research, the article explores four ethical challenges of working with trial transcripts: lack of participant consent; impossibility of research reciprocity; the risk that one’s use of these materials can be harmful to the local communities, and the risk that this use might be harmful to the researchers themselves.
{"title":"Ethical challenges of using trial transcripts for research purposes: A case study of the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia","authors":"Marina Veličković","doi":"10.1093/lril/lrad020","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/lril/lrad020","url":null,"abstract":"Drawing on three years of empirical research, the article explores four ethical challenges of working with trial transcripts: lack of participant consent; impossibility of research reciprocity; the risk that one’s use of these materials can be harmful to the local communities, and the risk that this use might be harmful to the researchers themselves.","PeriodicalId":43782,"journal":{"name":"London Review of International Law","volume":"12 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2024-02-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139677747","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Political debates on the use of force draw on Manichean narratives which are legitimated by legalistic language. Overreliance on such narratives devalues international law as a safeguard against the illegal use of force, silences criticism that militarism is not the solution to international crises, and blurs legal and non-legal justifications for intervention.
{"title":"International law as shibboleth: the continued appeal of heroic narratives in support of military intervention","authors":"Lynsey Mitchell","doi":"10.1093/lril/lrad019","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/lril/lrad019","url":null,"abstract":"Political debates on the use of force draw on Manichean narratives which are legitimated by legalistic language. Overreliance on such narratives devalues international law as a safeguard against the illegal use of force, silences criticism that militarism is not the solution to international crises, and blurs legal and non-legal justifications for intervention.","PeriodicalId":43782,"journal":{"name":"London Review of International Law","volume":"26 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2023-12-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138563111","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Journal Article The cinderella stamps and philatelic practices of micronations: the materiality of claims to statehood Get access Harry Hobbs, Harry Hobbs Associate Professor, Faculty of Law, University of Technology Sydney Email: hobbs.harry@uts.edu.au https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9903-6908 Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Jessie Hohmann Jessie Hohmann Associate Professor, Faculty of Law, University of Technology Sydney Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar London Review of International Law, lrad018, https://doi.org/10.1093/lril/lrad018 Published: 01 November 2023
{"title":"The cinderella stamps and philatelic practices of micronations: the materiality of claims to statehood","authors":"Harry Hobbs, Jessie Hohmann","doi":"10.1093/lril/lrad018","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/lril/lrad018","url":null,"abstract":"Journal Article The cinderella stamps and philatelic practices of micronations: the materiality of claims to statehood Get access Harry Hobbs, Harry Hobbs Associate Professor, Faculty of Law, University of Technology Sydney Email: hobbs.harry@uts.edu.au https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9903-6908 Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Jessie Hohmann Jessie Hohmann Associate Professor, Faculty of Law, University of Technology Sydney Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar London Review of International Law, lrad018, https://doi.org/10.1093/lril/lrad018 Published: 01 November 2023","PeriodicalId":43782,"journal":{"name":"London Review of International Law","volume":"18 12","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135455902","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Abstract The framework of global trade has been undergoing important transformations in the last few years. This article will defend the thesis that these events form the background of a possibly significant transformation of US capitalism that will be accompanied by new and profoundly different types of trade agreements and institutions.
{"title":"International economic institutions after neoliberalism: the Indo-Pacific Economic Framework for Prosperity as a blueprint?","authors":"Rémi Bachand","doi":"10.1093/lril/lrad017","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/lril/lrad017","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract The framework of global trade has been undergoing important transformations in the last few years. This article will defend the thesis that these events form the background of a possibly significant transformation of US capitalism that will be accompanied by new and profoundly different types of trade agreements and institutions.","PeriodicalId":43782,"journal":{"name":"London Review of International Law","volume":"2 4","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135510227","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
For international lawyers, the international conference appears as a rather anodyne place. While attention has been paid to who partakes in the ‘invisible college’, scant scrutiny has been directed to where we sit. To counter this, I argue we should interrogate conference spaces as material stages for the dramas of global governance.
{"title":"Staging grounds: dialectics of the spectacular and the infrastructural in international conference-hosting","authors":"Daniel Ricardo Quiroga-Villamarín","doi":"10.1093/lril/lrad015","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/lril/lrad015","url":null,"abstract":"For international lawyers, the international conference appears as a rather anodyne place. While attention has been paid to who partakes in the ‘invisible college’, scant scrutiny has been directed to where we sit. To counter this, I argue we should interrogate conference spaces as material stages for the dramas of global governance.","PeriodicalId":43782,"journal":{"name":"London Review of International Law","volume":"11 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135740083","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The multiple materialisms of international law","authors":"Dimitri Van Den Meerssche","doi":"10.1093/lril/lrad016","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/lril/lrad016","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":43782,"journal":{"name":"London Review of International Law","volume":"14 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135476866","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Abstract Questioning the transformative potential of the Sustainable Development Goals, the article mobilises elements of critical theory in order to demonstrate how contemporary forms of global sustainability governance refrain from tackling the capitalist roots of unsustainable development. For this reason, they remain incapable of delivering on their promises of world transformation.
{"title":"‘Transforming our world’? A historical materialist critique of the sustainable development agenda","authors":"Matheus Gobbato Leichtweis","doi":"10.1093/lril/lrad013","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/lril/lrad013","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Questioning the transformative potential of the Sustainable Development Goals, the article mobilises elements of critical theory in order to demonstrate how contemporary forms of global sustainability governance refrain from tackling the capitalist roots of unsustainable development. For this reason, they remain incapable of delivering on their promises of world transformation.","PeriodicalId":43782,"journal":{"name":"London Review of International Law","volume":"40 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135476995","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}