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10 Good Reads 2023

November 27, 2023

Here, again, is my pick of ‘Good Reads’ from the books I read in 2023. I want to remind you, as I do every year, that these are not ‘book reviews’, which also explains the relative paucity of law books or books about the law. Many excellent ones have come my way this year, as in previous years, but an excellent law book is not always, in fact rarely is, a ‘good read’ in the sense intended here: curl up on the sofa and enjoy a very good read, maybe even as a respite from an excellent law book. I should also point out that some of these ‘good reads’ are not necessarily literary masterpieces – and yet, still, they are very good reads. Yasushi Inoue, The Hunting Gun (猟銃 Ryōjū, 1949) (Tuttle Publishers, 2001) I discovered Inoue this year (a gift from a loyal reader of my 10 Good Reads – practically all books I read are based on recommendations by trusted friends). ‘Better late than never’ is most apt in…

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Favourite Readings 2022 – A Collection of First Academic Books

December 31, 2022

As in previous years, EJIL review team, Gail Lythgoe and Christian J. Tams, have asked colleagues to offer short reflections on their favourite books of the year. No strict rules apply — the posts are meant to introduce books that left…

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Favourite Readings 2022 – Pursuing International Law and Human Rights Outcomes

December 30, 2022

As in previous years, EJIL review team, Gail Lythgoe and Christian J. Tams, have asked colleagues to offer short reflections on their favourite books of the year.  No strict rules apply — the posts are meant to introduce books that left an impression, irrespective of their genre. Today…

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Favourite Readings 2022 – A Year in Reading Fragments

December 28, 2022

Andrei Tarkovsky Sculpting in Time: Reflections on the Cinema translated from Russian by Kitty Hunter-Blair (Bodley Head 1986) 245 pp. Inger Christensen, Susanna Nied (trsl) and Anne Carson (introduction), It (New Directions 2006) 237 pp. Sappho and Anne Carson, If not, winter: fragments of Sappho (Random House 2002)…

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Favourite Readings 2022

December 27, 2022

James Crawford, Chance, Order, Change: The Course of International Law (Brill, 2014) Fareda Banda, African Migration, Human Rights and Literature (Bloomsbury Publishing, 2020) Jorge E. Viñuales (ed.), The UN Friendly Declaration at 50: An Assessment of the Fundamental Principles of International Law (Cambridge University Press, 2020) Claudia Rankine, Just Us: An American Conversation (Allen…

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