In our current state of affairs in the world some of us must feel a measure of fatigue. Helplessness. Despair. At loss. A loss. A sense that we're losing. It might have been a day like this when George Orwell's Winston Smith sat in his room and wrote the first page of his diary. ‘From where Winston stood…

In our Book Review section for this issue, we invite readers to reflect on international law’s institutions, concepts and subjects from the late Habsburg Empire, through the League of Nations, to the contemporary Security Council and the emergent language of resistance. We open with Ville Kari’s discussion of Natasha Wheatley, The Life and Death of States:…

This issue includes four book reviews that address, from different perspectives, varied experiences and expertise, and distinct methods, the ways in which international law can both limit state violence and violations of human dignity, but also, in some respects, endorse or reproduce the dynamics that enable practices of violence and oppression of human dignity. Françoise Tulkens…