Tor Krever

Into the void: how Trump killed international law The rules-based global order, its institutions and value system face a crisis of legitimacy and credibility as the US turns away

Nice to see our London Review of International Law collection on Gaza mentioned in this Guardian article on the alleged crisis facing international law, even if I'm quoted slightly misleadingly to imply I share the author's lamentation.

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breaking news, the new issue of your favorite journal is out and as per the ushe it is 🔥🔥🔥

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Medellín manifesto on transnational value chains and international law Abstract. Global Value Chains (GVCs) have been heralded as the ‘new world of trade’, yet they branch far beyond what has traditionally been considered ‘tra

Closing out the issue is the Medellín Group's manifesto on transnational value chains and international law, setting out a research agenda that treats GVCs as amorphous and transnational legal creatures.

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Law’s capture of human rights focused open-source investigation Abstract. With new protocols emerging to regulate the field of open-source investigation, this article critiques their widespread deference to the requirem

Sasha Crawford-Holland, @patrickbriansmith.bsky.social, and Andrew Williams look at open-source investigation and propose tactics to counter epistemic injustice aimed at fostering pluralistic, decentralised, and solidarity-based OSI practices.

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Security Council Resolutions as autobiographical texts Abstract. Security Council Resolutions are drafted like autobiographical stories. They are authored and narrated by the Council and all revolve around the

Security Council Resolutions, Wouter Werner argues, are drafted like autobiographical stories. Comparing them with the plays of Samuel Beckett, he examines the rules of genre and tradition and how the Council presents itself to its readers.

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Algorithmic governance of ‘terrorism’ and ‘violent extremism’ online Abstract. Global security risks are increasingly countered through complex data infrastructures involving forms of algorithmic governance, automated decisi

Next, Gavin Sullivan explores the challenges security infrastructures pose by following the hash-sharing database of the Global Internet Forum to Counter Terrorism and suggests new possibilities for the study of global algorithmic infrastructures in action.

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Carr and the climate: solidarity and sacrifice in international law Abstract. The article delves into the dissonances between aims and inaction in the climate regime, using Edward Hallett Carr’s work as a lens. Beyond the h

Using EH Carr’s work as a lens, @ingovenzke.bsky.social delves into the dissonances between aims and inaction in the climate regime and repositions international law as a mobilising force in transnational climate movements.

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Rubber boats: transnational legal encounters in the Mediterranean Abstract. This article proposes the heuristic of transnational legal encounters to investigate the enactment of law as a concrete event between people, rul

Focusing on the rubber boats used by irregular migrants on the Mediterranean Sea, Tanja Aalberts uses the heuristic of transnational legal encounters to investigate the enactment of law as a concrete event within a complex transnational force field.
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Volume 13 Issue 1 | London Review of International Law | Oxford Academic Publishes high-quality scholarship on international law from around the world. While no area of international legal interest is excluded, the journal prioritises non-doctrinal scholarship, including t...

Our new issue of the London Review of International Law is out with articles by Tanja Aalberts, @ingovenzke.bsky.social, Gavin Sullivan, Wouter Werner, Sasha Crawford-Holland, @patrickbriansmith.bsky.social, Andrew Williams, and the Medellín Group.

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Against the erasure of this tradition, I call for a recovery of silenced histories of radicalism and anti-imperial thought and of a tradition that still offers resources for an emancipatory politics grounded in a critique of international law, imperialism and global capitalism.

I argue that a Marxist theory of imperialism was an important influence on anti-colonial political thought, while also shaping radical Third World lawyers’ attitudes towards the relationship between international law and imperialism and the uses and limits of the former.

Despite growing interest in the international legal history of decolonisation, significant elisions remain. Through a reading of recent engagements with that history, I argue that they contribute to an erasure of the Marxist tradition in the history of the Third World movement.

Glad to see this article now out. Part of a special issue on the history of international law, I write on, and against, the erasure of the Marxist tradition in the international legal history of decolonisation.

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In Cambridge, in my way to the spectacular conference by @norajaber.bsky.social and @torkrever.bsky.social on the juridification of justice

… but I might stop for a picnic first.

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Open Letter to the LSA We, the undersigned, urge you to (1) allow for hybrid participation at this year’s Annual Meeting; (2) to approve full reimbursement of conference fees for those who no longer feel able to participate...

having spoken to friends and comrades who are both anxious about travelling to the US for the LSA, and unable to withdraw for a number of reasons, we have drafted this letter.

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Planetary response-inability: Gaia, the Anthropocene, and the world without us Abstract. This article traces the emergence of ‘the planetary’ and ‘responsibility’ and argues that different ways in which the planet presents itself as a

Closing the symposium, @afolkers.bsky.social and Nadine Marquardt trace the emergence of ‘the planetary’ and ‘responsibility’ and argue that different ways in which the planet presents itself as a problem also change the meaning of responsibility.

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Performances of responsibility: market-based sustainability governance and the ‘responsibility economy’ Abstract. This article offers a reading of ‘market-based sustainability governance’ as a reflexive governance form, which works in part by establishing the

Andrew Lang offers a reading of ‘market-based sustainability governance’ as a reflexive governance form, drawing particular inspiration from the work of Anna Tsing and Donna Haraway.

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Is climate change ungovernable? Abstract. Climate governance spans multiple levels of socio-political organisation, from global institutions to local governments and non-governmental enti

In his article, @avastmachine.bsky.social explores failures and weaknesses of governance modes, arguing that the most effective climate ‘policy’ is infrastructural change.

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Responding before responseability: the delayed realisation of climate change as discrepant discourse formation Abstract. This article situates public statements by governments and political leaders in a contingent process of building the capacity to respond to rapid

Reading the public statements of governments and political leaders, Thomas Scheffer reconstructs the emergence of climate policy, climate law, and a global climate regime, as well as the multiple struggles and inevitable gaps along the way.

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Power, futuristic framings, and the problem of techno-fideism or How climate change breaks the promise of progress Abstract. Previous work has addressed industry disinformation in blocking climate action. This paper focuses on three additional matters. The first is poli

In her article, @naomioreskes.bsky.social looks at obstacles to climate action and in particular political power, anchoring effects and futuristic framing, and ‘techno-fideism’, an unreasonable faith in technology to solve social and political problems.

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Thinking about a Natural Contract: with Michel Serres (1930–2019) In the summer of 2019, the French mariner, philosopher and historian of science Michel Serres passed away. This essay is an homage to a great thinker and h

Hans-Jörg Rheinberger's essay is an homage to the late Michel Serres, focusing on his book The Natural Contract: 'Serres was a pioneer of the Anthropocene before the term had come into use.'

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The responsibility function: symposium introduction Abstract. This article introduces a symposium with contributions from Hans-Jörg Rheinberger, Naomi Oreskes, Thomas Scheffer, Andreas Folkers and Nadine Mar

Alain Pottage introduces the symposium, which emerges from a conference organised with @stephenlse.bsky.social in 2021

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Volume 12 Issue 3 | London Review of International Law | Oxford Academic Publishes high-quality scholarship on international law from around the world. While no area of international legal interest is excluded, the journal prioritises non-doctrinal scholarship, including t...

In our new issue of the London Review of International Law, a symposium on planetary responsibility with contributions from Alain Pottage, Hans-Jörg Rheinberger, @naomioreskes.bsky.social, Thomas Scheffer,
@avastmachine.bsky.social, Andrew Lang, @afolkers.bsky.social and Nadine Marquardt.

Limits of the portrait Interest in the history of international law has increased dramatically over the past few decades, the work of critical scholars doing much to disrupt the field’s celebratory narratives and lay bare i...

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Limits of the Portrait Published in Cambridge Review of International Affairs (Ahead of Print, 2025)

I was asked by @cambridgecria.bsky.social to write about @itallgren.bsky.social's Portraits of Women in International Law.

A short essay on the limits of the Portrait, via John Berger:
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On international law and Gaza: critical reflections As Israel’s assault on Gaza continues into its tenth month, the language of legality has become the dominant frame of popular and political discourse. Publ

The full, original collection in English is here:
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قضايا إسرائيلية العدد 95 رام الله: صدر حديثا عن المركز الفلسطيني للدراسات الإسرائيلية "مدار" العدد 95 من مجلة "قضايا إسرائيلية "تحت عنوان "إسرائيل والقانون الدولي للأقوياء"، ي

Earlier this year we published a collection of short reflections on Gaza and international law in the London Review of International Law. Some have now been translated and published in Arabic in the latest issue of the Madar Center's Qadaya Isra’iliyya.

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London Review of International Law Annual Lecture: Prof Susan Marks, ‘Trucanini’s Stare’ - LSE Law School Events Trucanini, a Tasmanian Aboriginal woman who lived from 1812 to 1876, was once said to be the ‘last of her race’. The fact that there is today a thriving Indigenous community in Tasmania testifies to t...

Our London Review of International Law Annual Lecture will be delivered this year by Susan Marks.
'Trucanini’s Stare', Thursday 21 November, 6.30pm at LSE (MAR 1.08)

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