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London Review of International Law
Number of Followers: 8

Hybrid journal (It can contain Open Access articles)
ISSN (Print) 2050-6325 - ISSN (Online) 2050-6333
Published by Oxford University Press

[412 journals]

Three liberty trees
- Authors: Marks S.
  Pages: 295 - 319
  Abstract: What was the tree of liberty' This article takes Boston’s ‘sacred elm’ as a point of departure for exploring debates about the rights of man in late 18th-century England. The liberty tree is shown to be a revealing metaphor for the rights of man, with important literal resonance as well.
  PubDate: Tue, 19 May 2020 00:00:00 GMT
  DOI: 10.1093/lril/lrz011
  Issue No: Vol. 7, No. 3 (2020)
The Polish Rider: CH Alexandrowicz and the reorientation of international
law, Part I: Madras studies
- Authors: Landauer C.
  Pages: 321 - 352
  Abstract: This article analyses the prominent international legal historian, CH Alexandrowicz, known largely for his advocating of the East’s imprint on international law. It places his perspective of the East and South, and his diachronic narrative—the rise of naturalism, its fall to positivism, and eventual promise of return from positivism—in the context of his own traversing of geographies and his intellectual commitments, including his study of the Indian Constitution.
  PubDate: Tue, 19 May 2020 00:00:00 GMT
  DOI: 10.1093/lril/lraa001
  Issue No: Vol. 7, No. 3 (2020)
For whom the bell tolls: London’s Iraq and Afghanistan Memorial
1990-2015
- Authors: Grady K.
  Pages: 353 - 376
  Abstract: Following the recent turn to materiality in international legal scholarship, this article considers London’s Iraq and Afghanistan Memorial 1990-2015. By examining the memorial’s politics in respect of death quantification, gender, and lawfulness, the article reveals international law’s roles in contributing to the conditions of possibility from which the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan arose.
  PubDate: Tue, 19 May 2020 00:00:00 GMT
  DOI: 10.1093/lril/lraa003
  Issue No: Vol. 7, No. 3 (2020)
Re-historicising dissolved identities: Deskaheh, the League of Nations,
and international legal discourse on Indigenous peoples
- Authors: Young S.
  Pages: 377 - 408
  Abstract: In 1923, Levi General Deskaheh sought recognition from the League of Nations of the Six Nations’ sovereignty and right to self-determination. Although scholars have good reasons for retroactively identifing Deskaheh as a representative of Indigenous peoples, doing so dissolves the identities of historical and present-day subjects, which has a number of invidious consequences.
  PubDate: Tue, 19 May 2020 00:00:00 GMT
  DOI: 10.1093/lril/lraa004
  Issue No: Vol. 7, No. 3 (2020)
Book Symposium
- Pages: 411 - 411
  Abstract: Ayça Çubukçu, For the Love of Humanity: The World Tribunal on Iraq (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2018)
  PubDate: Tue, 19 May 2020 00:00:00 GMT
  DOI: 10.1093/lril/lraa005
  Issue No: Vol. 7, No. 3 (2020)
Acting beyond the state: towards a cosmopolitan awakening'
- Authors: Falk R.
  Pages: 413 - 416
  Abstract: Ayça Çubukçu’s For the Love of Humanity11 theorises the global anti-war movement occasioned by the Iraq War of 2003 around her experience of involvement in an elaborate global initiative culminating in a tribunal established by ‘world citizens’ that held its final session in Istanbul. Beyond question, the Iraq War Tribunal (WTI) was an extraordinary undertaking from start to finish, a worldwide non-hierarchical network of civil society activists that prior to the Istanbul finale in 2005 had organised separate tribunal sessions devoted to the Iraq War in major cities around the world including London, Seoul, Copenhagen, New York, Stockholm, several in Japan, Rome, Frankfurt, Genoa, Barcelona and Lisbon. Although there are many examples of prior citizens’ tribunals on a variety of controversial issues, none before achieved this global scale or was guided by such a grand visionary ambition.
  PubDate: Tue, 19 May 2020 00:00:00 GMT
  DOI: 10.1093/lril/lrz013
  Issue No: Vol. 7, No. 3 (2020)
A politics of accountability grounded in solidarity
- Authors: Bâli A.
  Pages: 417 - 421
  Abstract: Ayça Çubukçu’s For the Love of Humanity11 is an ethnography of a two-year transnational project to demand accountability for the invasion and occupation of Iraq. Çubukçu uses the book to situate that project—known as the World Tribunal on Iraq (WTI)—in a series of political theory arguments about, inter alia, accountability, sovereignty, intervention and human rights that are tied to the dilemmas confronting the activists she studied. The book examines the organisational challenges encountered by WTI activists as practical examples of the myriad obstacles to building transnational solidarity, especially for those who—to borrow her words—are concerned with the ‘vectors of convergence and divergence between imperial mobilizations of international law, human rights, and ideas of humanity on the one side and anti-imperial ones on the other.’22 The result is a set of ethnographically informed reflections on pressing political theoretical questions about solidarity that is both compelling and illuminating.
  PubDate: Tue, 19 May 2020 00:00:00 GMT
  DOI: 10.1093/lril/lrz012
  Issue No: Vol. 7, No. 3 (2020)
Situating critique at the very heart of humanism
- Authors: Nesiah V.
  Pages: 423 - 428
  Abstract: When Don Apolinar Moscote, a magistrate sent by the central government, arrives in Macondo, the setting for Gabriel García Márquez’s One Hundred Years of Solitude, the locals tell him that he is not needed in this town. As Jose Buendía puts it, ‘we don’t need any judges here because there is nothing that needs judging’.11 Arguably, Buendía was making a case for judgment, and against the fetishising of judging—and, in particular, the model of judging emerging from the central authorities, militarised and authoritarian, alienated from the judgment of the people of Macondo and their priorities. As an emissary of the State, Moscote issues missives calling for deference and compliance in recognition of the Centre’s authority. For Buendía, there was nothing in Macondo that needed judging through that model of justice.
  PubDate: Tue, 19 May 2020 00:00:00 GMT
  DOI: 10.1093/lril/lraa002
  Issue No: Vol. 7, No. 3 (2020)