About/Bio
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
Two essays begin the review section, one by Alan Nissel and another by Rebecca Mignot-Mahdavi. Nissel reviews Kathryn Greenman’s State Responsibility and Rebels: The History and Legacy of Protecting Investment Against Revolution, suggesting that it has ‘tremendous import for the philosophy of international law’ with its postcolonial critique and discussion of a better framework for the law of state responsibility.
In This Issue – Reviews
Sigrid Boysen opens the section with her review of Marie-Catherine Petersmann's When Environmental Protection and Human Rights Collide. Boysen finds much to agree with in Petersmann’s account and notably praises her challenge to the ‘mantra of synergy’ according to which human rights protection and international environmental law are in a mutually supportive relationship. We move on to Prisca…
In this Issue – Reviews
This issue features five book reviews – all of which our reviewers seemed to enjoy a lot. We begin with Diane Desierto’s review of Tom Ginsburg’s ‘magisterial’ Democracies and International Law. Desierto notes the urgency of Ginsburg’s inquiry at a time when authoritarian powers ‘repurpose, cherry-pick, and distort human rights for their private political ends, economic gain, and the entrenchment of…
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,…