Jean d'Aspremont

Jean d'Aspremont

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Jean d'Aspremont is Professor of International Law at Sciences Po School of Law. He also holds a chair of Public International Law at the University of Manchester where he founded the Manchester International Law Centre (MILC). He is General Editor of the Cambridge Studies in International and Comparative Law and Director of Oxford International Organizations (OXIO). He is a member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the European Journal of International Law and series editor of the Melland Schill Studies in International Law.

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Favourite Readings 2021 – Canonization, Toleration, Incarnation, and Masturbation

December 21, 2021

Harold Bloom, The Western Canon. The Books and School of the Ages (Riverhead Books, New York, 1995) Mahmood Mamdani, Neither Settler Nor Native. The Making and Unmaking of Permanent Minorities (Belknap Press, London, 2020) Régis Debray, Cours de médiologie générale (Gallimard, Paris, 2001) Simeon Wade, Foucault in California (A True Story – Wherein the…

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Favourite Readings 2020 – Remembering George Steiner

December 30, 2020

George Steiner, Errata. An Examined Life (Weidenfeld and Nicholson, 1997) Timothy Mitchell, Colonising Egypt (Cambridge University Press, 1991) Steven L. Winter, A Clearing in the Forest. Law, Life and Mind (The University of Chicago Press, 2001) Lucien Febvre and Henri-Jean Martin, The Coming of the Book. The Impact of Printing, 1450-1800 (Transl. David Gerard, Verso, 2010)…

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Destination: the Wasteland of Academic Overproduction (Part 2)

February 3, 2020

  In the first part of this essay, I have argued that the space available for innovative and imaginative thinking about international law hinges on the format of our research output. I have particularly shared my feeling that, notwithstanding the current veneration of the field for publications in refereed journals, our most innovative and imaginative pieces of scholarship…

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Popular articles by Jean d'Aspremont

Formalism and the Sources of International Law: An Introduction

December 11, 2012

Prolegomena: A paradox At the origin of the inquiry found in the book under discussion (whose introduction is available for download here) lies a paradox. This paradox can be spelled out as follows. Nothing has been more ontologically threatening for international law – and for the professional community organized around it – than…

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Destination: the Wasteland of Academic Overproduction (Part 1)

February 3, 2020

  We, international lawyers, publish too much, way too much. We know it too well and yet continue to produce scholarship by the truckload. We carry on with writing even if it comes at the expense of the breadth of our reading or the quality of our teaching. We persist to write, quite sadly I must say, even…

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Customary International Law as a Dance Floor: Part I

April 14, 2014

International lawyers’ thirst for argumentative freedom seems unquenchable. Nowhere is this more conspicuous than in the debate unfolding around the current work of the International Law Commission (hereafter ILC) on the identification of customary international law. Indeed, whilst the ILC has espoused a rather self-restrained approach so far, its study on the identification of customary international law…

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