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…

In recent weeks, U.S. President Donald J. Trump has unequivocally expressed his desire to purchase Greenland, which holds a constitutional status within the Danish ‘Unity of the Realm’ under the framework of Denmark’s Constitution and the Act on Greenland Self-Government. Dr. Ekaterina Antsygina has already examined the legal foundations of Denmark’s sovereignty over Greenland and the…