Language warning! This week Ntina Tzouvala chairs a discussion with Douglas Guilfoyle and Tamsin Phillipa Paige on Israel’s attacks on Lebanon in its conflict with Hezbollah. We discuss the pager attack, the recent ground offensive, and the implications of this conflict for the discipline of international humanitarian law. Recommendations: Douglas' tweet thread on the "Solferino moment" https://x.com/djag2/status/1836741318242099283; Adil Haque and Janina Dill interviewed by Craig Martin on the ...
Oct 04, 2024•1 hr 1 min
This week Douglas Guilfoyle, Tamsin Phillipa Paige, Imogen Saunders and Ntina Tzouvala discuss the challenges of teaching international law and the trend towards more online education. Recommendations: Open access textbook: Sué González Hauck, Raffaela Kunz, Max Milas (eds), Public International Law: A Multi-Perspective Approach https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003451327; Henry Jones and Aoife O’Donoghue, "History and self-reflection in the teaching of international law" https://academic.oup.com/lril...
Sep 25, 2024•1 hr 14 min
In this week's episode Imogen Saunders discusses her work with Shruti Rana (University of Missouri School of Law) and Peter Danchin (University of Maryland Carey Francis King Carey School of Law.) on engagement with international law in a populist era, and the impact of populism and American exceptionalism on international law. Peter recommends (both open access): Antony Anghie, "Rethinking International Law: A TWAIL Retrospective", https://academic.oup.com/ejil/article/34/1/7/7167027; and Nehal...
Sep 19, 2024•1 hr 14 min
Content warning: some discussion of death threats. How do we get the message out about what is happening in the world of international law, and what it means for national and international politics? This week, Douglas Guilfoyle discusses international law and public communication with: regular Called to the Bar co-host, Dr Juliette McIntyre, Lecturer in Law at the University of South Australia; Dr Alonso Gurmendi-Dunkelberg, Fellow in Human Rights and Politics at the LSE; and Molly Quell, a Dutc...
Sep 12, 2024•1 hr 18 min
This week Tamsin Phillipa Paige interviews Gina Heathcote on her work applying queer theory method to oceans law. What does it mean to view the ocean as a legal subject? What can legal pluralism and feminist theory tell us about maritime security? Gina's recommendations and references: Ratna Kapur - book Gender, Alterity and Human Rights (https://www.e-elgar.com/shop/gbp/gender-alterity-and-human-rights-9781839104473.html) and her article (https://journals.law.harvard.edu/hrj/wp-content/uploads/...
Sep 04, 2024•48 min
In this week's episode Ntina Tzouvala and Douglas Guilfoyle discuss Douglas' article "Litigation as Statecraft: Small States and the Law of the Sea" and the wider project on legal statecraft it forms a part of. That, and board games! Recommendations: Douglas Guilfoyle, Litigation as Statecraft: Small States and the Law of the Sea https://academic.oup.com/bybil/advance-article-abstract/doi/10.1093/bybil/brad009/7186911; Small States, Legal Argument, and International Disputes (NUS CIL symposium),...
Aug 29, 2024•58 min
In this week's episode Tamsin Philippa Paige interviews Emily Jones about posthuman feminism, and what it means for international law. Tamsin and Emily also discuss disability and academia. Lots of recommendations! From Emily: Lauren Berlant, Cruel Optimism (Duke University Press 2011) Rosi Braidotti, The Posthuman (Polity Press 2013) Hilary Charlesworth, ‘The Sex of the State in International Law,’ in Ngaire Naffine and Rosemary Owens (eds.), Sexing the Subject of Law, (LBC Information Services...
Aug 22, 2024•52 min
This week Imogen Saunders and Douglas Guilfoyle have a (slightly echo-y) kitchen table conversation about Sarah Wambaugh, the world's preeminent expert on self-determination referendums in the League of Nations era, and what her story tells us about the forgotten women of international law. Recommendations: Portraits of Women in International Law (https://global.oup.com/academic/product/portraits-of-women-in-international-law-9780198868453?cc=au&lang=en&); Feminist Judgments in Internati...
Aug 16, 2024•34 min
In this episode Tamsin Paige chairs a discussion among regular hosts Douglas Guilfoyle, Juliette MacIntyre, Imogen Saunders and Ntina Tzouvala on the new International Court of Justice Advisory opinion "Legal Consequences arising from the Policies and Practices of Israel in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem". It's a blockbuster episode for a blockbuster opinion. Music: Sam Barsh, Oils of Au Lait
Aug 09, 2024•1 hr 13 min
In this episode Douglas Guilfoyle and Kevin Heller discuss arguments that the Oslo Accords mean the the International Criminal Court lacks jurisdiction over the actions of Israeli national in Palestine. Kevin recommends articles on the topic in a special issue of vanderbilt Journal of International Law (https://scholarship.law.vanderbilt.edu/vjtl/vol49/iss2/); Douglas recommends Monique Cormier's, "The Jurisdiction of the International Criminal Court over Nationals of Non-States Parties" (https:...
Aug 01, 2024•27 min
In this episode the Called to the Bar team hit the conference circuit! Hosts Juliette McIntyre and Douglas Guilfoyle interview a range of special guests at the 2024 Australia New Zealand Society of International Law annual conference in Melbourne, and the Blue Security early career workshop in Manila. Featured guests include: Mellissa Stewart (University of Hawaii); Philippa Webb (University of Oxford); Frances Anggadi (University of Wollongong); Holly Cullen (University of Western Australia); Y...
Jul 25, 2024•56 min
8. Aggression and the Political Economy of War In this episode Douglas Guilfoyle and Ntina Tzouvala discuss Ntina's article "Aggression, Capitalism, and International Law: Missed Opportunities or Structural Constraints?" https://academic.oup.com/clp/advance-article/doi/10.1093/clp/cuae006/7690074 Ntina's recommendations: Joanna Kyriakakis, Corporations, Accountability and International Criminal Law, https://www.e-elgar.com/shop/gbp/corporations-accountability-and-international-criminal-law-97808...
Jul 18, 2024•58 min
This week host Tamsin Phillipa Paige and guest Holly Cullen discuss the long and tortuous history of attempts to extradite Wikileaks founder Julian Assange from the UK to the USA on espionage charges. Here are Holly's recommendations for further reading: Suzanne Akila, 'Networks of Protection' in Holly Cullen, Joanna Harrington and Catherine Renshaw, eds., Experts, Networks and International Law (Cambridge University Press, 2017) 21. Select Articles from The Conversation on legal issues relating...
Jul 11, 2024•46 min
This week hosts Juliette McIntyre and Douglas Guilfoyle discuss academic career advice, clashes in the South China Sea and Palestine before the ICJ. Recommendations include: Douglas' 2012 pieces on doing a PhD in international law (https://www.ejiltalk.org/so-you-want-to-do-a-phd-in-international-law/; and https://www.ejiltalk.org/how-to-survive-a-phd-in-international-law/); and on mental health in academia (https://www.afronomicslaw.org/category/analysis/symposium-early-career-international-law...
Jul 04, 2024•57 min
In this episode, Douglas Guilfoyle and Tamsin Phillipa Paige discuss the international law applicable to the use by Houthi insurgents of remotely pirated drone boats to attack merchant shipping in the Red Sea. It gets pretty geeky! Tamsin's recommendations: Austen Turk, Sociology of Terrorism (2004) https://www.annualreviews.org/content/journals/10.1146/annurev.soc.30.012703.110510?crawler=true&mimetype=application/pdf Rob McLaughlin, 'Whither Recognition of Belligerency?' (2020) https://lie...
Jun 27, 2024•52 min
A podcast of informal conversation about topical issues in international law, life in academia and whatever else is on our mind. In this episode Douglas Guilfoyle and Imogen Saunders discuss small island states' campaign for climate justice through seeking advisory opinions from international courts and tribunals, including the International Court of Justice and the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea. Imogen's reading recommendations: Documents in the ICJ request for an advisory opini...
Jun 19, 2024•57 min
A podcast of informal conversation about topical issues in international law, life in academia and whatever else is on our mind. In this episode Douglas Guilfoyle and Ntina Tzouvala discuss the concept of genocide committed by inflicting conditions of life calculated to bring about a group's destruction and the question of Palestinian statehood. (Spoiler: it's a state.) Ntina's reading recommendation: Noura Erakat, Justice for Some: Law and the Question of Palestine (Stanford 2019) Music: Sam Ba...
Jun 13, 2024•55 min
Strong language alert! In Episode 2 Tamsin Philippa Paige and Douglas Guilfoyle discuss why Russia is still on the Security Council and whether a Security Council veto can be circumvented, alongside reports that an ex-Mossad chief attempted to intimidate an International Criminal Court Prosecutor. In this episode, Douglas and Tamsin drink tea.
Jun 06, 2024•51 min
A podcast of casual conversation about topical issues in international law, life in academia and whatever else is on our mind. Hosted by Douglas Guilfoyle and featuring Juliette McIntyre. In this episode we discuss South Africa v Israel at the International Court of Justice and the International Criminal Court Prosecutor seeking arrest warrants for senior Hamas and Israeli leaders. Music: Sam Barsh, Oils of Au Lait.
May 31, 2024•47 min
A podcast of casual conversation about topical issues in international law, life in academia and whatever else is on our mind. Hosted by Douglas Guilfoyle and featuring Ntina Tzouvala, Juliette McIntyre and Imogen Saunders. Coming soon. Music: Sam Barsh, Oils of Au Lait.
May 26, 2024•37 sec
