My latest article, ‘Statehood and International Organization: Rethinking Their Conceptual Relationship with Reference to Customary International Law’, addresses whether, how, and to what extent, doctrinal propositions that we accept about the legal personality of states can be extended to international organizations. I argue that our theories would make much more sense if we let go of the…

The Articles section opens with a contribution by Stewart Manley, Pardis Moslemzadeh Tehrani, and Rajah Rasiah on the non-use of African Law by the International Criminal Court. The authors argue that the ICC should be more open to citing materials from Africa and other countries of the Global South, especially, but not only, when it identifies general principles.

This issue opens with a Letter to the Editors by Nicolás Perrone, who responds to a review of his book, Investment Treaties and the Legal Imagination, published in our volume 33-1 issue. The Articles section begins with a contribution by Stephen Humphreys that probes our understanding of responsibility towards ‘future generations’ in relation to climate change.