Episódios
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This week Douglas Guilfoyle, Tamsin Phillipa Paige, Imogen Saunders and Ntina Tzouvala discuss the challenges of teaching international law and the trend towards more online education. Recommendations:
Open access textbook: Sué González Hauck, Raffaela Kunz, Max Milas (eds), Public International Law: A Multi-Perspective Approach https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003451327;
Henry Jones and Aoife O’Donoghue, "History and self-reflection in the teaching of international law" https://academic.oup.com/lril/article/10/1/71/6587156;
Jean-Pierre Gauci, Barrie Sander (eds), Teaching International Law: Reflections on Pedagogical Practice in Context https://www.routledge.com/9781032551517; and
a seminar on Gauci and Sander's book featuring contributors talking about legal eduation https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U_DzxIekK1k. -
In this week's episode Imogen Saunders discusses her work with Shruti Rana (University of Missouri School of Law) and Peter Danchin (University of Maryland Carey Francis King Carey School of Law.) on engagement with international law in a populist era, and the impact of populism and American exceptionalism on international law.
Peter recommends (both open access):
Antony Anghie, "Rethinking International Law: A TWAIL Retrospective", https://academic.oup.com/ejil/article/34/1/7/7167027; and
Nehal Bhuta, "Recovering social rights", https://academic.oup.com/book/56391/chapter/448353512 .
Shruti recommends:
Jessica Calarco, Holding It Together: How Women Became America's Safety Net, https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/697130/holding-it-together-by-jessica-calarco/ .
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Content warning: some discussion of death threats.
How do we get the message out about what is happening in the world of international law, and what it means for national and international politics?
This week, Douglas Guilfoyle discusses international law and public communication with: regular Called to the Bar co-host, Dr Juliette McIntyre, Lecturer in Law at the University of South Australia; Dr Alonso Gurmendi-Dunkelberg, Fellow in Human Rights and Politics at the LSE; and Molly Quell, a Dutch-American journalist based in The Hague, who covers international law for Courthouse News Service. All three are active communicators in the field of international law across a range of media. It's a lively and entertaining discussion, albeit one that does touch on the dark side of social media.
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This week Tamsin Phillipa Paige interviews Gina Heathcote on her work applying queer theory method to oceans law. What does it mean to view the ocean as a legal subject? What can legal pluralism and feminist theory tell us about maritime security?
Gina's recommendations and references:
Ratna Kapur - book Gender, Alterity and Human Rights (https://www.e-elgar.com/shop/gbp/gender-alterity-and-human-rights-9781839104473.html) and her article (https://journals.law.harvard.edu/hrj/wp-content/uploads/sites/83/2020/06/15HHRJ1-Kapur.pdf)
Rahul Rao - Out of Time: The Queer Politics of Postcoloniality (https://academic.oup.com/book/37418)
Kathy Jetnil-Kijiner - artist and poet (kathyjetnilkijiner.com) - two poems, Rise: From One Island to Another (https://350.org/rise-from-one-island-to-another/) and Islands Dropped from a Basket (https://www.kathyjetnilkijiner.com/islands-dropped-from-a-basket/)
Charlesworth, Heathcote and Jones in Feminist Legal Studies - Feminist Scholarship on International Law in the 1990s and Today: An Inter-Generational Conversation (https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10691-018-9384-1)
The forthcoming books Queer Encounters with International Law: Lives, Communities, Subjectivities (https://www.routledge.com/Queer-Encounters-with-International-Law-Lives-Communities-Subjectivities/Paige-OHara/p/book/9781032643045) and Queer Engagements with International Law: Times, Spaces, Imaginings (https://www.routledge.com/Queer-Engagements-with-International-Law-Times-Spaces-Imaginings/OHara-Paige/p/book/9781032643229)
Vanja Hamzic's writing on law and violence in: Queering International Law: Possibilities, Alliances, Complicities (https://www.routledge.com/Queering-International-Law-Possibilities-Alliances-Complicities-Risks/Otto/p/book/9780367886370)
The art of Léuli Eshrāghi (1986-), they belong to the Sāmoan clans Seumanutafa and Tautua, (https://leulieshraghi.art/)
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In this week's episode Ntina Tzouvala and Douglas Guilfoyle discuss Douglas' article "Litigation as Statecraft: Small States and the Law of the Sea" and the wider project on legal statecraft it forms a part of. That, and board games! Recommendations:
Douglas Guilfoyle, Litigation as Statecraft: Small States and the Law of the Sea https://academic.oup.com/bybil/advance-article-abstract/doi/10.1093/bybil/brad009/7186911;
Small States, Legal Argument, and International Disputes (NUS CIL symposium), https://cil.nus.edu.sg/blog/symposia/small-states-legal-argument-and-international-disputes/;
Isaac B. Kardon, China’s Law of the Sea, https://yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300256475/chinas-law-of-the-sea/;
Congyan Cai, The Rise of China and International Law, https://global.oup.com/academic/product/the-rise-of-china-and-international-law-9780190073602; and
Jill Goldenzeil, Lawfare between Russia and Ukraine, https://www.cornelllawreview.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/Goldenziel-online-essay-final.pdf.
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In this week's episode Tamsin Philippa Paige interviews Emily Jones about posthuman feminism, and what it means for international law. Tamsin and Emily also discuss disability and academia.
Lots of recommendations!
From Emily: Lauren Berlant, Cruel Optimism (Duke University Press 2011)
Rosi Braidotti, The Posthuman (Polity Press 2013)
Hilary Charlesworth, ‘The Sex of the State in International Law,’ in Ngaire Naffine and Rosemary Owens (eds.), Sexing the Subject of Law, (LBC Information Services, 1997): 251-268.
Lee Edelman, No Future: Queer Theory and the Death Drive (Duke University Press 2004)
Donna Haraway - A Cyborg Manifesto - reprinted in lots of places see e.g. https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/english/currentstudents/undergraduate/modules/fictionnownarrativemediaandtheoryinthe21stcentury/manifestly_haraway_----_a_cyborg_manifesto_science_technology_and_socialist-feminism_in_the_....pdf
Gina Heathcote, Feminist Dialogues on International Law: Successes, Tensions, Futures (Oxford University Press 2019)
Zakiyyah Iman Jackson, Becoming Human: Matter and Meaning in an Anticloack world (NYU Press 2020)
Emily Jones, Feminist Theory and International Law: Posthuman Perspectives (Routledge 2023)
Ratna Kapur, 'The (im)possibility of queering international Human Rights Law,' in Dianne Otto (ed), Queering International Law: Possibilities, Alliances, Complicities, Risks (Routledge 2017)
Lys Kulamadayil, 'Ableism in the College of International Lawyers: on disabling differences in the professional field,' Leiden Journal of International Law 36(3) (2023)
José Esteban Muñoz, Cruising Utopia: The Then and There of Queer Futurity (NYU Press 2009)
Usha Natarajan and Julia Dehm, 'Where is the Environment? Locating Nature in International Law,' TWAILER: Reflections (2019): https://twailr.com/where-is-the-environment-locating-nature-in-international-law/
Logan J. Smilges, Crip Negativity (University of Minnesota Press 2023)
From Tamsin:
Emma Genovese & Tamsin Phillipa Paige, Life as Distinct from Patriarchal Influence: Exploring Queerness and Freedom through Portrait of a Lady on Fire, https://doi.org/10.1080/13200968.2024.2328192
Emma Genovese, The Spectacle of Respectable Equality, https://www.unswlawjournal.unsw.edu.au/article/the-spectacle-of-respectable-equality-queer-discrimination-in-australian-law-post-marriage-equality
Tamsin Phillipa Paige, Claerwen O'Hara (eds), Queer Encounters with International Law, https://www.routledge.com/Queer-Encounters-with-International-Law-Lives-Communities-Subjectivities/Paige-OHara/p/book/9781032643045
Tamsin Phillipa Paige, Claerwen O'Hara (eds), Queer Engagements with International Law, https://www.routledge.com/Queer-Engagements-with-International-Law-Times-Spaces-Imaginings/OHara-Paige/p/book/9781032643229
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This week Imogen Saunders and Douglas Guilfoyle have a (slightly echo-y) kitchen table conversation about Sarah Wambaugh, the world's preeminent expert on self-determination referendums in the League of Nations era, and what her story tells us about the forgotten women of international law. Recommendations: Portraits of Women in International Law (https://global.oup.com/academic/product/portraits-of-women-in-international-law-9780198868453?cc=au&lang=en&); Feminist Judgments in International Law (https://www.bloomsbury.com/au/feminist-judgments-in-international-law-9781509914456/).
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In this episode Tamsin Paige chairs a discussion among regular hosts Douglas Guilfoyle, Juliette MacIntyre, Imogen Saunders and Ntina Tzouvala on the new International Court of Justice Advisory opinion "Legal Consequences arising from the Policies and Practices of Israel in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem". It's a blockbuster episode for a blockbuster opinion.
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In this episode Douglas Guilfoyle and Kevin Heller discuss arguments that the Oslo Accords mean the the International Criminal Court lacks jurisdiction over the actions of Israeli national in Palestine. Kevin recommends articles on the topic in a special issue of vanderbilt Journal of International Law (https://scholarship.law.vanderbilt.edu/vjtl/vol49/iss2/); Douglas recommends Monique Cormier's, "The Jurisdiction of the International Criminal Court over Nationals of Non-States Parties" (https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/jurisdiction-of-the-international-criminal-court-over-nationals-of-nonstates-parties/0FC0B6291D0ECDCDADAEE7167B3B1594).
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In this episode the Called to the Bar team hit the conference circuit! Hosts Juliette McIntyre and Douglas Guilfoyle interview a range of special guests at the 2024 Australia New Zealand Society of International Law annual conference in Melbourne, and the Blue Security early career workshop in Manila. Featured guests include: Mellissa Stewart (University of Hawaii); Philippa Webb (University of Oxford); Frances Anggadi (University of Wollongong); Holly Cullen (University of Western Australia); Yvonne Breitwieser-Faria (University of Queensland); Tamer Morris (University of Sydney); Bec Strating (LaTrobe University); Muhamad Arif (Griffith University); Thư Nguyễn Hoàng Anh (National University of Singapore); Su Wai Mon (University of Malaya); and Alex De La Cruz (Tilburg University).
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8. Aggression and the Political Economy of War
In this episode Douglas Guilfoyle and Ntina Tzouvala discuss Ntina's article "Aggression, Capitalism, and International Law: Missed Opportunities or Structural Constraints?" https://academic.oup.com/clp/advance-article/doi/10.1093/clp/cuae006/7690074
Ntina's recommendations:
Joanna Kyriakakis, Corporations, Accountability and International Criminal Law, https://www.e-elgar.com/shop/gbp/corporations-accountability-and-international-criminal-law-9780857939494.html ;
Scott Veitch, Law and Irresponsibility, https://www.routledge.com/Law-and-Irresponsibility-On-the-Legitimation-of-Human-Suffering/Veitch/p/book/9780415442510 ;
Antony Loewenstein, The Palestine Laboratory, https://shop.redflag.org.au/products/the-palestine-laboratory ;
and here is Margot the kitten: https://x.com/djag2/status/1813360318468571429 !
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This week host Tamsin Phillipa Paige and guest Holly Cullen discuss the long and tortuous history of attempts to extradite Wikileaks founder Julian Assange from the UK to the USA on espionage charges.
Here are Holly's recommendations for further reading:
Suzanne Akila, 'Networks of Protection' in Holly Cullen, Joanna Harrington and Catherine Renshaw, eds., Experts, Networks and International Law (Cambridge University Press, 2017) 21.
Select Articles from The Conversation on legal issues relating to Assange:
'Julian Assange is free, but curly legal questions about his case remain', The Conversation, 26 June 2024.
https://theconversation.com/julian-assange-is-free-but-curly-legal-questions-about-his-case-remain-233339
'Julian Assange plea deal: what does it mean for the Wikileaks founder and what happens now?', The Conversation, 25 June 2024.
https://theconversation.com/julian-assange-plea-deal-what-does-it-mean-for-the-wikileaks-founder-and-what-happens-now-233207
'Julian Assange's appeal to avoid extradition will go ahead. It could be legally groundbreaking', The Conversation, 20 May 2024.
https://theconversation.com/julian-assanges-appeal-to-avoid-extradition-will-go-ahead-it-could-be-legally-groundbreaking-227859
'Explainer: what charges does Julian Assange face, and what's likely to happen next?', The Conversation, 12 April 2019.
https://theconversation.com/explainer-what-charges-does-julian-assange-face-and-whats-likely-to-happen-next-115362
'UN decision is not "the end of the road" that Assange claims it is', The Conversation, 6 February 2016.
https://theconversation.com/un-decision-is-not-the-end-of-the-road-that-assange-claims-it-is-54257
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This week hosts Juliette McIntyre and Douglas Guilfoyle discuss academic career advice, clashes in the South China Sea and Palestine before the ICJ. Recommendations include:
Douglas' 2012 pieces on doing a PhD in international law (https://www.ejiltalk.org/so-you-want-to-do-a-phd-in-international-law/; and https://www.ejiltalk.org/how-to-survive-a-phd-in-international-law/); and on mental health in academia (https://www.afronomicslaw.org/category/analysis/symposium-early-career-international-law-academia-mental-health-academia-some).
We also discuss the South China Sea arbitration (https://pcacases.com/web/sendAttach/2086) and coverage of recent developments in The Diplomat (https://thediplomat.com/tag/south-china-sea/).
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In this episode, Douglas Guilfoyle and Tamsin Phillipa Paige discuss the international law applicable to the use by Houthi insurgents of remotely pirated drone boats to attack merchant shipping in the Red Sea. It gets pretty geeky!
Tamsin's recommendations:
Austen Turk, Sociology of Terrorism (2004) https://www.annualreviews.org/content/journals/10.1146/annurev.soc.30.012703.110510?crawler=true&mimetype=application/pdf
Rob McLaughlin, 'Whither Recognition of Belligerency?' (2020) https://lieber.westpoint.edu/whither-recognition-of-belligerency/
Philip Drew, The Law of Maritime Blockade (2017) https://global.oup.com/academic/product/the-law-of-maritime-blockade-9780198808435
You might also like:
Tamsin Paige, "Piracy and Universal Jurisdiction" (2013) https://www6.austlii.edu.au/cgi-bin/viewdoc/au/journals/MqLawJl/2013/17.html
Douglas Guilfoyle, "The Laws of War and the Fight against Somali Piracy" https://law.unimelb.edu.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0008/1686284/Guilfoyle.pdf
Magne Frostad, 'Houthi Attacks on Merchant Vessels in the Red Sea' (2024) https://lieber.westpoint.edu/houthi-attacks-merchant-vessels-red-sea/ - not that we agree with all his points.
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A podcast of informal conversation about topical issues in international law, life in academia and whatever else is on our mind.
In this episode Douglas Guilfoyle and Imogen Saunders discuss small island states' campaign for climate justice through seeking advisory opinions from international courts and tribunals, including the International Court of Justice and the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea.
Imogen's reading recommendations:
Documents in the ICJ request for an advisory opinion on climate change: https://www.icj-cij.org/case/187/request-advisory-opinion
Cynthia Houniuhi, "Why I’m leading Pacific Islands students in the fight on climate change": https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-01751-1
Melbourne Journal of International Law special issue on international courts: https://classic.austlii.edu.au/au/journals/MelbJIL/2021/
Imogen Saunders, General Principles as a Source of International Law: https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/general-principles-as-a-source-of-international-law-9781509936083/
The "Marry me Juliette" Trilogy: https://jodimcalister.com.au/book-series/marry-me-juliet/
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A podcast of informal conversation about topical issues in international law, life in academia and whatever else is on our mind.
In this episode Douglas Guilfoyle and Ntina Tzouvala discuss the concept of genocide committed by inflicting conditions of life calculated to bring about a group's destruction and the question of Palestinian statehood. (Spoiler: it's a state.)
Ntina's reading recommendation: Noura Erakat, Justice for Some: Law and the Question of Palestine (Stanford 2019)
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Strong language alert! In Episode 2 Tamsin Philippa Paige and Douglas Guilfoyle discuss why Russia is still on the Security Council and whether a Security Council veto can be circumvented, alongside reports that an ex-Mossad chief attempted to intimidate an International Criminal Court Prosecutor. In this episode, Douglas and Tamsin drink tea.
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A podcast of casual conversation about topical issues in international law, life in academia and whatever else is on our mind. Hosted by Douglas Guilfoyle and featuring Juliette McIntyre. In this episode we discuss South Africa v Israel at the International Court of Justice and the International Criminal Court Prosecutor seeking arrest warrants for senior Hamas and Israeli leaders.
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A podcast of casual conversation about topical issues in international law, life in academia and whatever else is on our mind.
Hosted by Douglas Guilfoyle and featuring Ntina Tzouvala, Juliette McIntyre and Imogen Saunders.
Coming soon.
Music: Sam Barsh, Oils of Au Lait.