John Haskell

• Professor / Chair at The University of Manchester

International law academics have increasingly turned to engage deliberately engage computer-oriented technologies. There is little work in the literature that reflects on how this engagement itself takes place, what it tells us about the state of the discipline, and the consequences of concentrating on the phenomena of digital technologies. This pa...

Law schools are increasingly pressured to rethink the character of next generation research, policy impact and curricular training in the wake of computer-oriented technologies. For all its heralded importance and the proliferation of markets and talk around the topic of law and technology within the law school industry, there are still no systemat...

Addressing some of the most perilous, controversial issues in international law and governance, this volume brings together legal scholars from diverse geographic, personal and scholarly perspectives. They reflect on the pervasive feeling of crisis in the world today and share their views on the possibilities and limits of the international legal a...

This cross-disciplinary collaboration offers historical and contemporary scholarship exploring the interface of Christianity and international law. Christianity and International Law aims to understand and move past arguments, narratives and tropes that commonly frame law-religion studies in global governance. Readers are introduced to a range of c...

Introduction chapter to new volume, Christianity and International Law, situating scholarship and theory/metholodology around these dynamics.

Yearbooks are a specific type of institutional and scholarly activity among experts that identify with international law. They play an important and unique role in our discipline. How so, and toward what ends? This contribution tries to answer these questions, and proposes that the yearbook helps facilitate tight control over the formal rhetorical...

An increasing number of international law scholars have become drawn in recent years to the study of political economy. In trying to situate the linkage between international law and political economy in its purported historical context, much of this scholarship has tended to construct a vision of a historical relationship between them that typical...

This book brings together a series of contributions by international legal scholars that explore a range of subjects and themes in the field of international economic law and global economic governance through a variety of methodological and theoretical lenses. It introduces the reader to a number of different ways of constructing and approaching t...

Political Theology and International Law offers an account of the intellectual debates surrounding the term “political theology” in academic literature concerning international law. Beneath these differences is a shared tradition, or genre, within the literature that reinforces particular styles of characterising and engaging predicaments in global...

An increasing number of international law scholars over the last few years have started to turn their attention to the study of political economy. To what extent can this trend be considered an indication of an underlying ‘disciplinary turn’? How should one understand the phenomenon of disciplinary turns? The answer we propose to this question in t...

International law is not merely a set of rules or processes, but is a professional activity practised by a diversity of figures, including scholars, judges, counsel, teachers, legal advisers and activists. Individuals may, in different contexts, play more than one of these roles, and the interactions between them are illuminating of the nature of i...

Martti Koskenniemi's From Apology to Utopia is (rightly) considered a classic in international legal theory. The study tracks the oscillation of international legal argument over hundreds of years to reconcile seeming incongruencies: legal reasoning does not provide determinacy, but it brings weighted direction to political conflict; legal categori...

Events such as the global financial crisis have helped reveal that the drivers and contours of governance on a national and international level remain a mystery in many respects. Set in this context, this timely Research Handbook is the first to explicitly address the constitutive relationship between law and political economy. With scholarly contr...

In its literature, the adjective 'modern' is typically inserted as a preface to the discipline of international law – 'modern international law'. The rhetoric of modernity within the discipline, in turn, generally designates a liberal posture towards governance, both in terms of describing the nature of conflicts facing transnational regulation and...

Beginning in the early 1990s, Third World Approaches to International Law scholarship (TWAIL) destabilized the mainstream narrative within international law that its doctrines were constituted by the historic search for order between formally equal state sovereigns. Instead, TWAIL scholars argued that the key constitutive dynamic of the discipline...

Russian foreign policy and the former Soviet bloc is again a central concern within international law and policy scholarship. This paper considers this renewed interest through an analysis of how Western thought has perceived Russia through three periods: the long 19th century, the 20th century Cold War, and post Cold War transitology. Analyzing th...

Religion is a reoccurring theme within international law, as both an external phenomenon that confronts the profession and an internal dynamic that influences the logic and sensibility of the profession. A key concept within theological belief and study is ‘eschatology’, which addresses the end of days and how believers might orient their lives acc...

This paper is a book review on Mortimer Seller's 'Republican Principles in International Law' published by Revista Internacional de Pensamiento Politico. While laying out Seller's central thesis and an overview of the book, the paper focuses on a critical analysis of his central claims concerning the necessity of applying republican principles to i...

This volume offers a unique reflection on the historic and contemporary influence of the New Approaches to International Law (NAIL) movement within the context of Europe and America. In particular, the contributions focus on the intellectual product of NAIL's founder, David Kennedy, in relation to three legal streams: human rights, legal history, a...

Consumption-oriented models of governance dominate the contemporary global legal architecture. The financial crisis beginning in 2008, however, casts fundamental questions about the future viability of these approaches to economics and law. This paper attempts to firstly, evaluate its salient historical development and themes from the post-World Wa...

In this article, I hypothesize that against mainstream secularization accounts concerning the 19th-century development of modern international law, especially within the Anglo-American experience, the discipline was significantly influenced by liberal Protestantism. My argument is that a liberal Protestant cultural elite, to which the first generat...

My purpose here is to reconsider the tactical-functional and strategic-ideological character of rupture in the theoretical toolbox of international lawyers, and specifically to situate it within the emergence of what falls under the rubric of political theology. Analyzing the various approaches to rupture in international legal conversation, my the...

The specter of Hugo Grotius remains an important reference point within the conceptual vocabulary of international law. In this paper, I provide a brief analysis of how Grotius’ legacy functions within the rhetoric of international legal texts via lessons from the ‘New Approaches to International Law’ tradition (e.g., David Kennedy, TWAIL), as well...

The inauguration of the International Criminal Court and the proliferation of criminal tribunals over the last twenty years are often presented as historic and progressive moments in teh trajectory of international law's response to victims of rape in armed conflicts. However, these moments may signal not only inclusion, but also repression. They s...

In the context of international law, “transitology” is often used to describe the literature surrounding the former Soviet Union (fSU) and the subsequent reform attempts by Western and Eastern/Central European market reformers. While it is often acknowledged there have been other “waves” of transition, this literature typically asserts that the sit...

This paper focuses on some underlying tensions within the literature of global regulation towards the possibility and limits of international law in helping understand and address the current financial-political challenges facing the international legal system. First, I want to briefly think about some common ‘illusions’ that may restrict our abili...

This paper is a book review of David Kennedy's 'Of War and Law' published with the Nordic Journal of International Law. The book traces out key themes in Kennedy's work, and then provides some brief critiques and a conclusion.