Ríán Derrig

Colonialism and the EU Legal Order Cambridge Core - European Law - Colonialism and the EU Legal Order

This new edited volume on the colonial genealogies of EU Law looks interesting. Great to see a few familiar EUI names there, including the wonderful editor, and it's Open Access. www.cambridge.org/core/books/c...

New #ASILInsight today by @rianderrig.bsky.social & Kahlil Hassanali on "Understanding Executive Order 14285: On the Possibility of Authorizing Seabed Mining in Areas Beyond National Jurisdiction."

Read/download at asil.org/insights/volume/29/issue/9.

#seabedmining
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Don't miss this postdoc opportunity to join us and work on law, political economy, and ocean biodiversity!

Deadline is 30 May. Details here: cdn.prod.website-files.com/5d8a1b0693c9...

On First View, Hanna Eklund engages critically with Kundnani's Eurowhiteness.

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Really brilliant piece by Tara Zahra, ending with the need for redistribution to respond to economic inequality, which is not where these analyses of how now is like the early 20th century always end. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/05/o...

Frontiers | Considerations in the set up and functioning of the Scientific and Technical Body under the BBNJ Agreement—lessons from the Legal and Technical Commission of the International Seabed Autho...

Great article, really important proposals in advance of the upcoming first #BBNJ prepcomm: www.frontiersin.org/journals/oce...

Direct link to the open access PDF: fdslive.oup.com/www.oup.com/...

Thank you!

Super interesting. ‘Actually there is no model [for what we do] on the left’

Wild. And at the same time entirely historically consistent with US practice on this.

YouTube video by European, International and Transformative Law ACELG lecture with Ass. Professor Hanna Eklund (Uni. of Copenhagen)

I'm not an objective audience... but such a great lecture @acelg-uva.bsky.social

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I'll be in New Haven tomorrow to talk about my book!

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Shoutout to Nehal Bhuta who since 2020 is curating these online gatherings for former and current PhD supervisees.

We met weekly during lockdown and monthly since to discuss draft papers, PhD chapters, book proposals, conference presentations, perform mock job talks and read books together...

It’s been really fantastic! 4 more years!!

I liked this argument. Did wonder where people with for e.g. 1.2 million followers in a particular technofeudal fiefdom (👀) fit into the conceptualisation. open.substack.com/pub/savagemi...

Out now online with OUP! Download the book open access here: academic.oup.com/book/59239?u...

'Many international lawyers have written about the New Haven School. Ríán Derrig's elegant monograph is the first to provide an adequate account of the school’s creation, development, and impact in international law and beyond...'

—Jochen von Bernstorff, Univ of Tübingen

'Equally at home in the rural community of northern Mississippi in the early 1900s and in Viennese salons of the 1960s, Derrig evokes the cultural, social, and historical milieu of two key figures in US intellectual and legal life...'

—Neha Jain, Northwestern University

'... Derrig has succeeded in producing an original work with sometimes surprising insights about the origins, substance, and influence of what we have reason to call "American International Law".'

—Martti Koskenniemi, FBA, University of Helsinki

'... Read the book not only to understand whether and how international law shaped US Cold War foreign policy but also why it is taught the way it is taught in American law schools today.'

—Hengameh Saberi, Osgoode Hall Law School, York University

'If you want a really thoughtful analysis of the New Haven School, with no axes to grind and a thorough understanding of issues and people, then this is the book to read.'

—Dame Rosalyn Higgins GBE KC, former Judge and President of the International Court of Justice

I'm happy to have these endorsements: (🧵)

Out now online with OUP! Download the book open access here: academic.oup.com/book/59239?u...

Please read the pieces and engage with the IPOS initiative! It's a potentially significant and constructive proposal to reform international ocean governance.

Second, this International Journal of Marine and Coastal Law commentary piece (brill.com/view/journal...) is a deeper look at the underpinning rationale of IPOS and its use of futures oriented methods - potentially tracking a broader revival of 1960s and 1970s futures oriented thinking.

Reforming Ocean Governance A proposal to establish a new mechanism (its legal status is unclear) within international ocean governance is being debated. France has been the main proponent of the proposed Intergovernmental (o…

Two pieces I wrote on the IPOS initiative (ipos.earth) came out over the holidays. First, on
@ejiltalk.bsky.social I focus on two possible problems-the ambition to depoliticise the advice it would give to states, and its ambiguous relationship with 'capacity-building': ejiltalk.org/reforming-oc...

The #1 thing I want to do on my sabbitcal is read, whole books, as many as I can. I started here, and offer a brief summary/review [1/7]

Out, open access, in January 2025!

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