Philip Liste

Philip Liste
Fulda University of Applied Sciences · Department of Social and Cultural Sciences

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Introduction
My fields of interest include Theories of International Relations, Law and Society Studies, Critical Theory, Human Rights, Transnational Law, and Global Tax Governance. I have published in journals such as European Journal of International Relations, Transnational Legal Theory, Indiana Journal of Global Legal Studies, and International Political Sociology. I hold a PhD in Political Science from Goethe University Frankfurt, Germany.
Additional affiliations
November 2019 - April 2021
Fulda University of Applied Sciences
Position
  • Interim Professor
October 2015 - September 2017
Hamburg University
Position
  • Interim Professor
October 2013 - July 2014
Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Position
  • Rechtskulturen PostDoc Fellow
Education
January 2004 - December 2009
Goethe University Frankfurt
Field of study
  • Politikwissenschaft

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Publications (32)
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In April 2013, the US Supreme Court left a mark on the spatiality of law. In a decision on human rights violations in Nigeria, state territoriality served as a technique to rule out the application of transnational law against private corporations. Paradoxically, the private actor turned out to be the primary beneficiary of this jurisdictional terr...
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How do regulatory frameworks affect the space they are meant to regulate? Borrowing from critical geography, this article argues that regulatory space is not a neutral category. Rather than regulating a given space, regulatory practice collaborates in the very production of such space. One major problematique is that under conditions of transnation...
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Transnational law (TL) reacts to normative demands in world society and thus covers normative worlds beyond both domestic and international realms. Inasmuch as domestic law structures relations among actors within the confines of a territorial state, and international law structures relations among states, TL can be understood to structure relation...
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Studying the transnational politics of law implies a transdisciplinary research framework. In various sub-fields of law and society studies, scholars stress the political moment of law and legal practice by attempting to understand law-as-something-else (e.g. law as culture, law as geographical knowledge, law as literature, etc.). The paper argues...
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While international studies have addressed the interplay between international authority and politicisation, the debate has been surprisingly disconnected from an elaboration of a seemingly “depoliticising” juridification. Moreover, a critique of juridification as it has traditionally been articulated in critical theory is widely absent in internat...
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To acquire a lens through which to observe the role of law in the making of a custom-tailored but socially unequal world, this chapter turns to ‘new legal realism’. Although not offering a theoretically homogeneous legal or social theory, legal realism suggests that law is to be studied in context. New legal realism provides an interesting resource...
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How does governing work today? How does society (mis)handle pressing challenges such as armed violence, cultural difference, ecological degradation, economic restructuring, geopolitical shifts, global pandemics, migration flows, and technological change in ways that are democratic, effective, fair, peaceful, and sustainable? This book addresses thi...
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In the media, the so-called cum/ex trades were addressed as the biggest tax robbery in history. In a few years, the financial trading scheme caused an estimated damage to European state treasuries of ca. 50 billion euros. Through highly complex transactions, a network of equity traders, banks, super-rich investors, and lawyers generated returns of...
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Politicisation, in a broad and basic understanding, means to turn something - an issue, an institution, a policy - that previously was not a subject to political action into something that now is subject to political action. So far, most definitions of the concept would agree. But besides this basic approach, there is much discussion. Politicisatio...
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Pre-review version. A revised version is forthcoming as “Transnational Law.” In Oxford Bibliographies in International Relations. Ed. Patrick James. New York: Oxford University Press.
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In International Relations (IR) theory, norms are widely held to be the opposite to 'interest defined as power' (Morgenthau). Norms are often held to be scripts of emancipation, and power to be a practice of domination. The paper argues that IR norms research all too often buys into a problematic dichotomy by adopting a binary perspective from whic...
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In this contribution, we introduce a special issue on 'Organizing Fragmented Territoriality', pointing to the role of spatiality, territory and knowledge.
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“International relations” marks a thriving theme of academic study, especially beyond the disciplinary confines of International Relations (IR). Scholars in diverse fields like sociology (Sassen, 2006), history (Dirlik, 2006), law and society studies (Darian-Smith, 2013), geography (Elden, 2013), or anthropology (Merry, 2006) are developing thought...
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In Kiobel v Royal Dutch Petroleum, Dutch and British private corporations were accused of having aided and abetted the violation of the human rights of individuals in Nigeria. A lawsuit, however, was brought in the United States, relying on the Alien Tort Statute—part of a Judiciary Act from 1789. In its final decision on the case, the US Supreme C...
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Anne-Marie Slaughter has described the “new world order” as characterized by some “conceptual shifts,” including an increasing cooperation of domestic courts across nation-state boundaries. The cross-jurisdictional referencing of legal norms and decisions, as Slaughter holds, would lead into a “global community of courts.” This article takes issue...
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In Kiobel v. Royal Dutch Petroleum, a transnational human rights litigation lawsuit on abusive corporate conduct in Nigeria, the U.S. Supreme Court was turned (or turned itself) into a site of a struggle for normative space. In addition to the parties directly involved, a multiplicity of actors intervened into the case by means of amicus curiae bri...
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Institutions and discourse are inextricably intertwined and should be analyzed accordingly. The article proposes an analytical approach — ‘intertextual institutionalism’ — that pays attention to the everyday life of international organizations. Documents produced in corresponding arenas usually start with a daunting apparatus of repetitions and, th...
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Weltorganisationen sind Organisationen mit der Tendenz, ihre soziale Umwelt als „Welt“ zu beschreiben. Die Analyse von Weltorganisationen sucht folglich nach Spuren der Welt in Organisationen. Sinngemäß lassen sich derlei Spuren am ehesten in den Abläufen weltumspannender Organisationsformen wie bei den Vereinten Nationen (VN) finden. Prinzipiell,...
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When democracies go to war, they know that the law is on their side. The same applies when they condemn the war. But what happens when democracies take different legal positions on one and the same war? The author shows how positions in the centers of political power can no longer be determined in isolation from their social environment, even in qu...
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When democracies wage war, they ‘know’ that they have the law on their side. The same holds true when they condemn war. But what if democracies take divergent legal positions to one and the same war? Relying on governmental and public ‘Iraq’ discourses in the United States and Germany, this article argues that governments can no longer define the l...
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A couple of years ago, while speaking to a small colloquium, one prominent international lawyer stated that “there is no interdisciplinarity.” As he saw it, there would only be a “war between the disciplines.” I think there is something to it: interdisciplinary research can be a struggle and often enough, scholars do systematically misunderstand ea...
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Does law rule foreign affairs in the democratic state? Basically, one might expect that democratic executives operate on the ground of what is called the Rechtsstaat, and that in a political system with checks and balances operations—especially those eventually dropping out of that ground—are subject to judicial review. However, legal systems are m...
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Trotz eines wieder erstarkten Interesses der Politikwissenschaft am internationalen Recht ist das Verhältnis der beiden Disziplinen von gegenseitigem Missverstehen geprägt. Der politischen Selbstüberschätzung, nationalstaatliche Völkerrechtsgestaltung unterliege bestenfalls machtpolitischen, aber keinesfalls rechtlichen Grenzen, steht nicht selten...

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