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Gail Lythgoe is a Lecturer in International Law at the University of Manchester and Director of the Manchester International Law Centre. She finished her PhD at the University of Glasgow and is the EJIL Book Review Assistant Review Editor. Her research interests include public international law, global governance, legal theory, legal geography, and international organizations.
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In This Issue – Reviews
After seven years, this is our last ‘In This Issue’. We are signing off with a bumper issue full of reviews in different shapes and sizes. Two review essays offer in-depth engagement with foundational questions. Fuad Zarbiyev reflects on Alain Pellet’s 2018 Hague Academy General Course, now published in book form. Pellet’s vision of the ‘elusive theory…
In This Issue – Reviews
This issue of the Journal features four regular reviews, and the second batch of contributions to our (ongoing) Hague Academy Centenary Symposium. Two of the reviews focus on aspects of international environmental law in a broad sense. In their enriching review of Gabrielle Hecht’s Residual Governance: How South Africa Foretells Planetary Futures, Tracy-Lynn Field and Michael Hennessy Picard point…
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…
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Popular articles by Gail Lythgoe
Nuclear Weapons and International Law: The Impact of the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons
December 2, 2020
Gail Lythgoe
With Honduras being the 50th state to ratify the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW) on the 24th of October 2020, the 90 day countdown has begun for the treaty to come into force. Honduras also happened to ratify the treaty on UN Day, and not just any UN day, but the 75th anniversary…
The COP26 Blue Zone: UN or UK Territory
November 2, 2021
Gail Lythgoe
When thousands of Glasgow residents queued up earlier this year to receive their covid vaccination at one of Scotland’s largest concert venues, I doubt many of them were thinking about the fact that the space where they were receiving their jabs would soon come under UN control. With the TRIPs vaccine waiver animating international law discourse at the…
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,…