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EJIL: The Podcast! Episode 9: Reviewing Book Reviewing

July 2, 2021

Which author of a legal monograph has not had that frustrating feeling — Why is my book not getting reviewed (and his or her book is…!)? And yet, in one of the many exquisite paradoxes of academic life, all Book Review editors of legal journals will attest to the difficulty of getting colleagues to accept to do a book review. ‘I have to read that book carefully (i.e. going beyond the index and checking if I am cited and whether the engagement with my work is ok) and then write a couple of pages which count for nothing in the current lamentable state of quantitative academic appointments and promotions?’ Thank you but no thank you is the usual reply. We want our books reviewed but we don’t like reviewing books. Or as readers of legal book reviews — have you ever had the frustrating feeling of ‘I want to read about the book and this reviewer is just using it to inflict on us his own thoughts and ideas’. Or the opposite — if I want…

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EJIL: The Podcast! Expands

May 21, 2021

After 6 trial podcasts initiated by Dapo Akande, Marko Milanovic and Philippa Webb, in which they, their guests and an EJIL editor in chief, discussed issues ranging from immunities to international organisations, from cyber attacks to the US elections, the EJIL boards reviewed the experiment. A decision was taken: continue, and expand. We expand in terms…

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EJIL:The Podcast! Episode 7: “Walking Back Human Rights in Europe?” ‬

March 6, 2021

In this episode of the podcast, Sarah Nouwen is in conversation with Laurence Helfer (Harry R. Chadwick, Sr. Professor of Law, Duke Law School) and Erik Voeten (Peter F. Krogh Professor of Geopolitics and Justice in World Affairs, Georgetown University) about their article “Walking Back Human Rights in Europe?” which was published in the…

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EJIL: The Podcast! Episode 6 – Trumping International Law?

February 1, 2021

This episode examines the effects of the four years of the Trump Administration on international law. I am joined by Joseph Weiler, Co-Editor in Chief of EJIL and University Professor at New York University School of Law; Neha Jain, Professor of Public International Law at the European University Institute; and Chimene Keitner, who is Alfred…

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Episode 5 of EJIL: The Podcast! “Breaking Bad – in a Specific and Limited Way”

September 28, 2020

In this episode of the podcast, Marko Milanovic, Sarah Nouwen, Philippa Webb and I analyse the Internal Market Bill which is currently going through the UK Parliament. The Bill is a remarkable piece of proposed legislation in that UK ministers, including the governments most senior legal advisers, admit that the aim of…

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