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Marina Veličković @marinavelickovic.bsky.social · Jun 24

breaking news, the new issue of your favorite journal is out and as per the ushe it is 🔥🔥🔥

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Tor Krever @torkrever.bsky.social · Jun 24

Closing out the issue is the Medellín Group's manifesto on transnational value chains and international law, setting out a research agenda that treats GVCs as amorphous and transnational legal creatures.

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Medellín manifesto on transnational value chains and international law

Abstract. Global Value Chains (GVCs) have been heralded as the ‘new world of trade’, yet they branch far beyond what has traditionally been considered ‘tra

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Tor Krever @torkrever.bsky.social · Jun 24

Sasha Crawford-Holland, @patrickbriansmith.bsky.social, and Andrew Williams look at open-source investigation and propose tactics to counter epistemic injustice aimed at fostering pluralistic, decentralised, and solidarity-based OSI practices.

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Law’s capture of human rights focused open-source investigation

Abstract. With new protocols emerging to regulate the field of open-source investigation, this article critiques their widespread deference to the requirem

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Tor Krever @torkrever.bsky.social · Jun 24

Security Council Resolutions, Wouter Werner argues, are drafted like autobiographical stories. Comparing them with the plays of Samuel Beckett, he examines the rules of genre and tradition and how the Council presents itself to its readers.

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Security Council Resolutions as autobiographical texts

Abstract. Security Council Resolutions are drafted like autobiographical stories. They are authored and narrated by the Council and all revolve around the

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Tor Krever @torkrever.bsky.social · Jun 24

Next, Gavin Sullivan explores the challenges security infrastructures pose by following the hash-sharing database of the Global Internet Forum to Counter Terrorism and suggests new possibilities for the study of global algorithmic infrastructures in action.

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Algorithmic governance of ‘terrorism’ and ‘violent extremism’ online

Abstract. Global security risks are increasingly countered through complex data infrastructures involving forms of algorithmic governance, automated decisi

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Tor Krever @torkrever.bsky.social · Jun 24

Using EH Carr’s work as a lens, @ingovenzke.bsky.social delves into the dissonances between aims and inaction in the climate regime and repositions international law as a mobilising force in transnational climate movements.

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Carr and the climate: solidarity and sacrifice in international law

Abstract. The article delves into the dissonances between aims and inaction in the climate regime, using Edward Hallett Carr’s work as a lens. Beyond the h

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Tor Krever @torkrever.bsky.social · Jun 24

Focusing on the rubber boats used by irregular migrants on the Mediterranean Sea, Tanja Aalberts uses the heuristic of transnational legal encounters to investigate the enactment of law as a concrete event within a complex transnational force field.
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Rubber boats: transnational legal encounters in the Mediterranean

Abstract. This article proposes the heuristic of transnational legal encounters to investigate the enactment of law as a concrete event between people, rul

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Tor Krever @torkrever.bsky.social · Jun 24

Our new issue of the London Review of International Law is out with articles by Tanja Aalberts, @ingovenzke.bsky.social, Gavin Sullivan, Wouter Werner, Sasha Crawford-Holland, @patrickbriansmith.bsky.social, Andrew Williams, and the Medellín Group.

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Volume 13 Issue 1 | London Review of International Law | Oxford Academic

Publishes high-quality scholarship on international law from around the world. While no area of international legal interest is excluded, the journal prioritises non-doctrinal scholarship, including t...

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Tor Krever @torkrever.bsky.social · May 29

Against the erasure of this tradition, I call for a recovery of silenced histories of radicalism and anti-imperial thought and of a tradition that still offers resources for an emancipatory politics grounded in a critique of international law, imperialism and global capitalism.

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Tor Krever @torkrever.bsky.social · May 29

I argue that a Marxist theory of imperialism was an important influence on anti-colonial political thought, while also shaping radical Third World lawyers’ attitudes towards the relationship between international law and imperialism and the uses and limits of the former.

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Tor Krever @torkrever.bsky.social · May 29

Despite growing interest in the international legal history of decolonisation, significant elisions remain. Through a reading of recent engagements with that history, I argue that they contribute to an erasure of the Marxist tradition in the history of the Third World movement.

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Tor Krever @torkrever.bsky.social · May 29

Glad to see this article now out. Part of a special issue on the history of international law, I write on, and against, the erasure of the Marxist tradition in the international legal history of decolonisation.

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Dimitri Van Den Meerssche @dimitrivdm.bsky.social · Apr 29

In Cambridge, in my way to the spectacular conference by @norajaber.bsky.social and @torkrever.bsky.social on the juridification of justice

… but I might stop for a picnic first.

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Marina Veličković @marinavelickovic.bsky.social · Mar 31

having spoken to friends and comrades who are both anxious about travelling to the US for the LSA, and unable to withdraw for a number of reasons, we have drafted this letter.

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Open Letter to the LSA

We, the undersigned, urge you to (1) allow for hybrid participation at this year’s Annual Meeting; (2) to approve full reimbursement of conference fees for those who no longer feel able to participate...

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Tor Krever @torkrever.bsky.social · Mar 19

Closing the symposium, @afolkers.bsky.social and Nadine Marquardt trace the emergence of ‘the planetary’ and ‘responsibility’ and argue that different ways in which the planet presents itself as a problem also change the meaning of responsibility.

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Planetary response-inability: Gaia, the Anthropocene, and the world without us

Abstract. This article traces the emergence of ‘the planetary’ and ‘responsibility’ and argues that different ways in which the planet presents itself as a

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Tor Krever @torkrever.bsky.social · Mar 19

Andrew Lang offers a reading of ‘market-based sustainability governance’ as a reflexive governance form, drawing particular inspiration from the work of Anna Tsing and Donna Haraway.

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Performances of responsibility: market-based sustainability governance and the ‘responsibility economy’

Abstract. This article offers a reading of ‘market-based sustainability governance’ as a reflexive governance form, which works in part by establishing the

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Tor Krever @torkrever.bsky.social · Mar 19

In his article, @avastmachine.bsky.social explores failures and weaknesses of governance modes, arguing that the most effective climate ‘policy’ is infrastructural change.

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Is climate change ungovernable?

Abstract. Climate governance spans multiple levels of socio-political organisation, from global institutions to local governments and non-governmental enti

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Tor Krever @torkrever.bsky.social · Mar 19

Reading the public statements of governments and political leaders, Thomas Scheffer reconstructs the emergence of climate policy, climate law, and a global climate regime, as well as the multiple struggles and inevitable gaps along the way.

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Responding before responseability: the delayed realisation of climate change as discrepant discourse formation

Abstract. This article situates public statements by governments and political leaders in a contingent process of building the capacity to respond to rapid

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Tor Krever @torkrever.bsky.social · Mar 19

In her article, @naomioreskes.bsky.social looks at obstacles to climate action and in particular political power, anchoring effects and futuristic framing, and ‘techno-fideism’, an unreasonable faith in technology to solve social and political problems.

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Power, futuristic framings, and the problem of techno-fideism or How climate change breaks the promise of progress

Abstract. Previous work has addressed industry disinformation in blocking climate action. This paper focuses on three additional matters. The first is poli

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Tor Krever @torkrever.bsky.social · Mar 19

Hans-Jörg Rheinberger's essay is an homage to the late Michel Serres, focusing on his book The Natural Contract: 'Serres was a pioneer of the Anthropocene before the term had come into use.'

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Thinking about a Natural Contract: with Michel Serres (1930–2019)

In the summer of 2019, the French mariner, philosopher and historian of science Michel Serres passed away. This essay is an homage to a great thinker and h

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Tor Krever @torkrever.bsky.social · Mar 19

Alain Pottage introduces the symposium, which emerges from a conference organised with @stephenlse.bsky.social in 2021

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The responsibility function: symposium introduction

Abstract. This article introduces a symposium with contributions from Hans-Jörg Rheinberger, Naomi Oreskes, Thomas Scheffer, Andreas Folkers and Nadine Mar

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Tor Krever @torkrever.bsky.social · Mar 19

In our new issue of the London Review of International Law, a symposium on planetary responsibility with contributions from Alain Pottage, Hans-Jörg Rheinberger, @naomioreskes.bsky.social, Thomas Scheffer,
@avastmachine.bsky.social, Andrew Lang, @afolkers.bsky.social and Nadine Marquardt.

Volume 12 Issue 3 | London Review of International Law | Oxford Academic

Publishes high-quality scholarship on international law from around the world. While no area of international legal interest is excluded, the journal prioritises non-doctrinal scholarship, including t...

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Tor Krever @torkrever.bsky.social · Feb 24

Paywall-free version here:
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Limits of the portrait

Interest in the history of international law has increased dramatically over the past few decades, the work of critical scholars doing much to disrupt the field’s celebratory narratives and lay bare i...

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Tor Krever @torkrever.bsky.social · Feb 24

I was asked by @cambridgecria.bsky.social to write about @itallgren.bsky.social's Portraits of Women in International Law.

A short essay on the limits of the Portrait, via John Berger:
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Limits of the Portrait

Published in Cambridge Review of International Affairs (Ahead of Print, 2025)

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Tor Krever @torkrever.bsky.social · Dec 6

The full, original collection in English is here:
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On international law and Gaza: critical reflections

As Israel’s assault on Gaza continues into its tenth month, the language of legality has become the dominant frame of popular and political discourse. Publ

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