Episode 26: Hunger for Thought
We need to talk about hunger. After seven decades of a decline in mass death from starvation, starvation is now a reality for millions of people. And most of this starvation is not due to natural disa...
19 Apr 202453min
Episode 25: Do We Have a Responsibility toward Future Generations?
What is the Alpha and Omega of Climate Control discourse? Surely it is Intergenerational responsibility. Our responsibility towards future generations. Yet, in January 2023 EJIL published Against Futu...
8 Apr 202443min
Episode 24: The Third World: At the Centre of International Law?
Does the decision of the International Court of Justice with respect to Gaza illustrate the influence of Third World Approaches to International Law (TWAIL)? Has TWAIL perhaps become ‘mainstream’? And...
28 Feb 202443min
Episode 23: Unhappy New Year! Genocide in the Courtroom
In this episode, Dapo Akande, Marko Milanovic and Philippa Webb, joined by Mike Becker, discuss the oral hearings before the International Court of Justice on provisional measures in the South Africa ...
15 Jan 202455min
Episode 22: Organizing International Organizations
International organizations are often expected to solve problems that states cannot or do not solve. But how should we understand international organizations? Marking the year-long symposium ‘Hidden G...
30 Nov 202326min
Episode 21: The ICC’s Other Africa Bias?
The International Criminal Court has been frequently accused of a bias against Africa in that all its defendants thus far have been from Africa. But might the ICC suffer from another bias that disadva...
25 Sep 202329min
Episode 20: Disordering International Law
Much of international law is about ordering. But in her article in issue 33(3) of the European Journal of International Law, Michelle Staggs Kelsall calls for the disordering of international law. Thi...
6 Apr 202330min
Episode 19: From Russia with War: Part Deux
In this episode Marko Milanovic, Dapo Akande and Philippa Webb are joined by Oona Hathaway (Gerard C. and Bernice Latrobe Smith Professor of International Law at Yale Law School) to discuss big legal ...
24 Mars 20231h 2min
