In This Issue – Reviews

This issue abounds with reviews and marks a first of sorts.

It features one review essay and three regular reviews. Thomas Bustamante asks us to ‘tak[e] Dworkin’s legal monism seriously’ in his essay reviewing Cormac S. Mac Amhlaigh’s New Constitutional Horizons: Towards a Pluralist Constitutional Theory and considers the relationship between domestic, regional and international legal systems. Daniel Joyce begins the collection of short reviews, thinking about the ‘prospects of international law as it grapples with our own contemporary mix of truth, lies, and violence’ in his review of Carolyn N. Biltoft’s A Violent Peace: Media, Truth, and Power at the League of Nations. Shai Dothan reflects on the ‘vague’ meaning of the ‘European public order’ and offers an account of institutional strategy in his review of Kanstantsin Dzehtsiarou’s Can the European Court of Human Rights Shape European Public Order?  Finally, Maria Aristodemou reviews The Sentimental Life of International Law. Literature, Language, and Longing in World Politics by Gerry Simpson amidst the events in Gaza, Ukraine, and Sudan and queries why it is often the case that ‘law and war’ appear to ‘belong to entirely parallel universes’.

In addition to reviews of books recently published, this issue sees the first outputs of a project launched last year, with a call for contributions on ‘The Hague Academy: A Centenary of Scholarship’. This issue contains reviews by Yusra Suedi, Zaki S. Shubber, Aliki Semertzi, and Outi Penttilä. Over the coming issues of the Journal, we aim to publish a significant number of short reflections on the Hague Academy’s role and record: these will be diverse in style and approach, eventually depicting one of international law’s central institutions in the form of a mosaic. We say a little more about our aims in a short introductory note to the symposium.