We do not see things as they are, we see them as we are (anonymous) Introduction I wish to acknowledge the mana and scholarship of my colleague Prof Claire Charters and wish to thank her as one of Aotearoa’s leading Māori scholars for making the time and effort to read and comment on my recent EJIL article on progressive treaty-drafting, recognizing Māori representation on the international trade plane. Charters concludes that I did ‘not put Māori’s ongoing sovereignty at the fore’ of my analysis of Indigenous-related provisions in New Zealand’s recent free trade agreements with the European Union and the United Kingdom. I am a believer in robust academic debate and, in keeping with this Blog’s name, we need to talk: nā tō rourou, nā taku rourou ka ora ai te iwi. People from the left and the right of the political spectrum keep reminding me that I lack ‘a deeper understanding’. New Zealand’s constitutional law is one of the most fascinating areas of law, and…
EJIL: Debate!
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Of Straw Men, the United Nations and Illegal Occupation: A Rejoinder to David Hughes
Introduction In volume 31:3 of EJIL, David Hughes provides an interesting reply to my article in the same volume, in which I critically examine the commitment of the United Nations (UN) to the international rule of law by examining its management of the occupied Palestinian territory (OPT) since 1967. I argue that…
Black Lives Matter and International Law
We are today launching a symposium which will run over the next few weeks, with the aim of bringing together legal experts on various intersecting issues relating to the Black Lives Matter movement, police violence in America, and the historic racism and inequality that is demonstrated by the deaths of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Eric Garner, Michael Brown,…
How We Stop Talking Past Each Other: A Rejoinder to Hoekman and Nelson’s Reply to My Article on Narratives about Winners and Losers from Globalization
When Donald Trump was elected to the US presidency, the instinctive reaction of many public officials, trade economists and international economic lawyers was to fight back. And fight back they did – in reports, op-eds, blog posts, and interviews. It did not appear as though it would be particularly hard to win the argument: Trump’s economic illiteracy was…
New EJIL: Live! Interview with Dr Michelle Burgis-Kasthala
In this episode of EJIL: Live! Professor Joseph Weiler speaks with Dr Michelle Burgis-Kasthala, Lecturer in Public International Law at the University of Edinburgh Law School, about her article “Entrepreneurial Justice: Syria, the Commission for International Justice and Accountability and the Renewal of International Criminal Justice”, which appears in our 30:4 issue. In the article, Dr Burgis-Kasthala evaluates…
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