Our guest for this new episode is former EU Commissioner for Trade and Home Affairs, Cecilia Malmström. The episode is hosted by Belén Gracia, a PhD candidate at the Faculty of Law at Maastricht University. She is joined by Andrea Ott, a Profes

Sacha Garben - On a Social Europe

Mar 22nd, 2024 54m 27s

Our guest today is Professor Sacha Garben, from the Collège d'Europe, and she talks about the challenges of constructing a more social Europe. Professor Garben is a renowned expert in European Law and has written extensively about over-constitu

Anthony Pagden - The Pursuit of Europe: A History

Mar 17th, 2023 1h 8m

Anthony Pagden is the Distinguished Professor of Political Science and History at UCLA, and has in the past been affiliated with Oxford, Cambridge, the EUI (Florence), and Johns Hopkins University. Easily one of the most important intellectual

Antoine Duval - Sports Law, the World Cup, and Human Rights

Dec 8th, 2022 1h 9m

Antoine is a Senior Researcher at the TMC Asser Instituut, where he coordinates the research strand on 'Advancing Public Interests in International and European Law'. He obtained his PhD from the European University Institute in 2015 after defe

Signe Rehling Larsen - The Constitutional Theory of the Federation and the European Union

Dec 6th, 2022 42m 1s

Signe Rehling Larsen is the author of The Constitutional Theory of the Federation and the European Union (OUP 2021), as well as European Public Law after Empires, European Law Open (2022). In these strikingly original works, she argues, contra

Helmut Aust & Janne Nijman - International Law and Cities

Oct 13th, 2022 58m 30s

Janne Nijman and Helmut Aust join us to talk about their recently published Research Handbook on International Law and Cities (Edward Elgar 2021), co-edited with the assistance of Miha Marchenko. The book, which was awarded the ESIL (European S

Evan Fox-Decent - Mandatory Multilateralism

May 31st, 2022 46m 41s

Evan Fox-Decent is Full Professor at the Faculty of Law at McGill University in Montreal, where he has held a Canada Research Chair (Tier 1) in Cosmopolitan Law and Justice since October 2019. He is the author of several books such as Sovereign

Katharina Pistor - The Code of Capital: How the Law Creates Wealth and Inequality

May 24th, 2022 51m 53s

Our guest for today is Katharina Pistor, the Edwin B Parker Professor of Comparative Law at Columbia Law School, where she also heads the Center on Global Legal Transformation. Besides these appointments, Katharina is a research associate with

Guy Fiti Sinclair - To Reform the World: International Organizations and the Making of Modern States

Apr 19th, 2022 49m 29s

Our guest for this episode is Guy Fiti Sinclair, one of the world's foremost experts in the areas of international organizations law, the history of international law, and law and social theory, as well as the author of To Reform the World: Int

Adom Getachew - Worldmaking after Empire: The Rise and Fall of Self-Determination

Mar 24th, 2022 48m 38s

Our guest for this episode is Adom Getachew, author of Worldmaking after Empire: The Rise and Fall of Self-Determination (Princeton UP, 2019). The book relates the little-known histories of Anglophone African and Black Caribbean postcolonial mo

Lea Raible - Human Rights Unbound: A Theory of Extraterritoriality

Mar 9th, 2022 43m 26s

What 'values' do international law and international humanitarian law attempt to manifest? When do states acquire duties with respect to human rights towards people outside their borders? How 'binding' are these duties?Our guest for this episod

Arthur Ripstein - Kant and the Law of War

Feb 24th, 2022 1h 6m

Suppose someone assaults you. You defend yourself. Your aggressor is not allowed to use further force to 'defend' herself against your acts of self-defence. Only victims get to defend themselves; aggressors do not.However, under the contemporar

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