Professor Jan Klabbers is Professor of International Organisations Law, Director of the Centre of Excellence in Global Governance Research and Deputy Director of the Erik Castren Institute of International Law and Human Rights at the the University of Helsinki. The main question underlying the recent book byAnne Peters, Geir Ulfstein and I - The…

The symposium on “Theorizing International Organizations Law” in issue 31:2 of the European Journal of International Law seeks to excavate the intellectual history of this important sub-discipline of public international law. As noted in the introduction to the symposium, that history has, until relatively recently, been dominated by men. The writings of figures such as Rosalyn Higgins or…

James Lee Burke, Purple Cane Road (Simon & Schuster/ Doubleday, 2000) James Lee Burke, In the Electric Mist with Confederate Dead (Hyperion Books, 1993) Christine Jennings, Robbie: The Life of Sir Robert Jennings (Troubador Publishing, 2019) Kees Schuyt, R.P. Cleveringa: Recht, Onrecht en de Vlam der Gerechtigheid (Boom, 2019) Philip Jessup, Transnational Law (Yale University Press, 1956) Pertti Alasuutari and…