Guy Fiti Sinclair

About/Bio

Guy Fiti Sinclair is an Associate Professor at Auckland Law School, The University of Auckland. His principal areas of research and teaching are international organisations law, the history and theory of international law, and international economic law. Dr. Sinclair is the author of To Reform the World: International Organizations and the Making of Modern States (OUP 2017). He is a member of the Editorial Board of the European Journal of International Law and Co-Editor (with Megan Donaldson) of EJIL: The Podcast!

Recently Published

EJIL: The Podcast! Episode 31: Gradually, then Suddenly — Climate, Trade and the Charter Order in Precarious Times

This episode draws together perspectives on where we are, and international law’s past and future, from the vantage points of the climate regime, global economic governance, and the architecture on the use of force. Christina Voigt (Professor in the Department of Public and International Law, University of Oslo, first Co-chair of the Paris Agreement’s Compliance and Implementation Committee),…

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Re-Theorizing International Organizations Law: A Call for Reconsiderations, Hidden Gems, and New Perspectives

The symposium on “Theorizing International Organizations Law” in issue 31:2 of the European Journal of International Law seeks to excavate the intellectual history of this important sub-discipline of public international law. As noted in the introduction to the symposium, that history has, until relatively recently, been dominated by men. The writings of figures such as Rosalyn Higgins or…

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To Reform the World: International Organizations and the Making of Modern States – A Reply to the Discussants

Earlier this month we hosted a discussion of Guy Fiti Sinclair’s book, To Reform the World: International Organizations and the Making of Modern States. Below is Guy’s reply to the discussants. We are grateful to all of the participants for their role in this discussion I am extremely grateful for the sensitive and sympathetic comments…

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