Susan Marks’ Foreword asks ‘If the World is a Family, What Kind of Family Is It?’. It’s a provocative question for international lawyers, as the trope of the family runs through the discipline in all kinds of complex, even contradictory, ways. In this episode, Janne Nijman (Graduate Institute & University of Amsterdam) interviews Susan Marks (LSE) about her Foreword and the larger project it inaugurates. Their conversation ranges across the three ‘cases’ featured in the Foreword—the human family in human rights law, the ‘family of nations’, and the child as future in climate change debates—and beyond. What are the stakes of employing these familial tropes? What do they offer and what might they mask? What alternative discourses or imaginaries might be available?…
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EJIL: The Podcast! Episode 33: Owning the Future? International Law and Technology as a Critical Project
International law operates in a world of rapid technological transformation. From the battlefield to the border, from online content moderation to open-source investigation, from humanitarianism to development, from counterterrorism to migration management, practices of central concern to international lawyers are progressively altered by the introduction of new technological tools. Many of these developments are troubling. The use of…
EJIL: The Podcast! Episode 32: No Country for Women – Lawyering for Gender Justice in Afghanistan
Since returning to power in 2021, the Taliban has sought to reverse Afghan women’s hard-won progress toward gender equality. Through dozens of decrees, policies, and statements, it has targeted the autonomy and rights of women and girls, barring them from public life and severely restricting their basic freedoms. Yet, Afghan women have refused to accept their political, social,…
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),…
EJIL: The Podcast! Episode 30: On the Precipice – The International Criminal Court and State Immunity
In this episode, Paola Gaeta, Director of the Geneva Academy of International Humanitarian Law and Human Rights and Professor of International Law at the Geneva Graduate Institute, and Roger O’Keefe, Professor of International Law, Bocconi University, join Marko Milanovic and Philippa Webb to discuss recent developments at the International Criminal Court. The Court has now issued…
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