Editorials

As is customary in our final issue of the year, EJIL 36(4) opens with the Afterwords to the annual EJIL Foreword. Published in the first issue of this volume, this year’s Foreword was authored by Susan Marks and critically explored the metaphor of the world as a family and its implications for international law. In this issue, five…

Various EJIL editorials have highlighted some of the dangers to the integrity of academic life of excessive reliance on quantitative indicators in assessing the excellence or otherwise of scholars in the different stages of an academic career, be it selection to a Post Doc programme, initial appointment as faculty or subsequent promotion. Why Not…

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…

Opening this issue’s articles section, Marius Pieterse argues for a reconceptualization of cities as victims of human rights violations. His article maps out avenues for recognition of the harm sustained by urban collectives, challenging individualist understandings of human rights in a state-centric international legal order. The next article focuses on another question of standing in international adjudication. Robert…