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Social Hierarchies in Catastrophic Times: International Law, Critique, and Structural Change

Edited by: Tor Krever, lys Kulamadayil, Praggya Surana

ISBN13: 9781509993215
To be Published: December 2026
Publisher: Hart Publishing
Country of Publication: UK
Format: Hardback
Price: £95.00





This book brings together scholars primarily from the Global South, rooted in critical legal traditions, who reflect on international law and its role in (re-)producing social hierarchies in times of crisis and catastrophe.

How should legal scholars articulate critique in catastrophic times? Should critical voices tone it down, in favour of pragmatism, when faced with deteriorating social conditions, growing inequality, protracted violence, planetary collapse, authoritarianism, and xenophobia? Or are they more urgently needed than ever? Critical scholarship has long warned of the limits of international law and its complicity with structures and relations of domination and the (re)production of social hierarchies. Yet, contemporary catastrophes have led to its revitalisation as a language of both expert counsel and political demand, drowning out calls for structural change for the sake of realism and stability.

This book was inspired by two distinct, yet related, developments. One is the mobilisation of, and against, law by social movements representing the interests of distinct socially constructed groups facing crisis or catastrophe. The other is the reception of, and response to, such mobilisation by international law scholars and practitioners.

Subjects:
Public International Law
Contents:
Part I: Critique and Critical Praxis
1. Introduction: Social Hierarchies in Catastrophic Times
Lys Kulamadayil (Geneva Graduate Institute, Switzerland), Tor Krever (University of Cambridge, UK) and Praggya Surana (Geneva Graduate Institute, Switzerland)
2. Critical Praxis in Catastrophic Times: Reflections of a former UN Special Rapporteur
Tendayi Achiume (Stanford Law School, USA) and Tor Krever and Lys Kulamadayil (Geneva Graduate Institute, Switzerland)

Part II: Critique and the 'Other'
3. Let's Bring Race to the Table: China as a Disqualified Influencer in International Law
Yilin Wang (University of Macau, China)
4. Law and the Political Economy of Gender Pricing
Suzana Radhe Gerchmann (Geneva Graduate Institute, Switzerland)
5. Could there be a Minority Approach to International Law?
Mohd Imran (OP Jindal, India)

Part III: The Emancipatory Potential of Gazing Back Critically
6. Corporation, Crown, and Colony: The East India Company and the Colonial Foundations of International Law via India
Aman Kumar (Australian National University)
7. Asian Women's Legal Praxis and Structural Change: Third World Feminist Interventions
Maha Ali (Leiden University, the Netherlands)
8. Starvation on Trial: The Bengal Famine through the Lens of Colonial Law
Kalika Mehta (Humboldt University, Germany) and Riley Linebaugh (University of Potsdam, Germany)

Part IV: Critique and Catastrophe
9. International Law's 'Others': Right to Sanitation and the Marginalised in the Global South
Sujith Koonan (Jawaharlal Nehru University, India)
10. The Unequal Distribution of the Future: Climate Catastrophe and International Law
Matheus Gobbato Leichtweis (Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil)
11. The Legacy of the International Health Regulations - Fortress Europe
Dena Kirpalani (Geneva Graduate Institute, Switzerland)
12. At Whose Cost? EU Industrial Policy, the Pursuit of Critical Raw Materials
Ioannis Kampourakis (University of Rotterdam, the Netherlands)
Part V: Last Words
13. International Law and Social Hierarchies in Our Times: Epistemic and Material Dimensions
BS Chimni (OP Jindal, India)

Series: Studies in International Law

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Rebellious Jurisprudence: Judicial Dissent and International Law
Hemi Mistry
ISBN 9781509920112
To be published August 2028
Hart Publishing
£65.00
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The United Nations Security Council and the Authorisation of Force
Marko Svicevic
ISBN 9781509971299
To be published February 2027
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£44.99
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A Central Asian Perspective on International Law
Sergey Sayapin
ISBN 9781509935499
Published April 2026
Hart Publishing
£95.00
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The Standard of Review Before the International Court of Justice: Between Principle and Pragmatism
Felix Fouchard
ISBN 9781509971343
Published November 2025
Hart Publishing
£41.99
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The United Nations Security Council and the Authorisation of Force
Marko Svicevic
ISBN 9781509971251
Published August 2025
Hart Publishing
£90.00
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The United Nations Security Council and the Authorisation of Force (eBook)
Marko Svicevic
ISBN 9781509971268
Published August 2025
Hart Publishing
£81.00

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Responses to Sea Migration and the Rule of Law (eBook)
Katia Bianchini
ISBN 9781509978496
Published August 2024
Hart Publishing
£37.79

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Responses to Sea Migration and the Rule of Law
Katia Bianchini
ISBN 9781509978489
Published August 2024
Hart Publishing
£90.00
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The Standard of Review Before the International Court of Justice: Between Principle and Pragmatism
Felix Fouchard
ISBN 9781509971305
Published May 2024
Hart Publishing
£90.00
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The Standard of Review before the International Court of Justice: Between Principle and Pragmatism (eBook)
Felix Fouchard
ISBN 9781509971312
Published May 2024
Hart Publishing
£37.79

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Private Actors as Participants in International Law: A Critical Analysis of Membership under the Law of the Sea
Armando Rocha
ISBN 9781509948130
Published March 2023
Hart Publishing
£42.99
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The Responsibility to Protect and the Failures of the United Nations Security Council
P.M. Butchard
ISBN 9781509968701
Published December 2022
Hart Publishing
£42.99
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Judicial Deference in International Adjudication: A Comparative Analysis
Johannes Hendrik Fahner
ISBN 9781509943463
Published February 2022
Hart Publishing
£54.99
Cover of Prosecutorial Discretion at the International Criminal Court
Prosecutorial Discretion at the International Criminal Court
Anni Pues
ISBN 9781509944101
Published January 2022
Hart Publishing
£38.99
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The Role of Multilateral Environmental Agreements: A Reconciliatory Approach to Environmental Protection in Armed Conflict
Britta Sjostedt
ISBN 9781509943937
Published November 2021
Hart Publishing
£42.99
Cover of Extraterritoriality and Climate Change Jurisdiction: Exploring EU Climate Protection under International Law (eBook)
Extraterritoriality and Climate Change Jurisdiction: Exploring EU Climate Protection under International Law (eBook)
Natalie L. Dobson
ISBN 9781509935833
Published September 2021
Hart Publishing
£38.69

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Private Actors as Participants in International Law: A Critical Analysis of Membership under the Law of the Sea
Armando Rocha
ISBN 9781509948048
Published September 2021
Hart Publishing
£95.00
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Extraterritoriality and Climate Change Jurisdiction: Exploring EU Climate Protection under International Law
Natalie L. Dobson
ISBN 9781509935826
Published September 2021
Hart Publishing
£95.00
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Private Actors as Participants in International Law: A Critical Analysis of Membership under the Law of the Sea (eBook)
Armando Rocha
ISBN 9781509948055
Published September 2021
Hart Publishing
£38.69

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The Readmission of Asylum Seekers under International Law
Mariagiulia Giuffré
ISBN 9781509954759
Published August 2021
Hart Publishing
£42.99
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International Law and the War with Islamic State: Challenges for Jus ad Bellum and Jus in Bello
Saeed Bagheri
ISBN 9781509950515
Published August 2021
Hart Publishing
£95.00
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International Law and the War with Islamic State: Challenges for Jus ad Bellum and Jus in Bello (eBook)
Saeed Bagheri
ISBN 9781509950522
Published August 2021
Hart Publishing
£38.69

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The Law of Humanity Project: A Story of International Law Reform and State-making (eBook)
Ukri Soirila
ISBN 9781509938926
Published August 2021
Hart Publishing
£37.79

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The Law of Humanity Project: A Story of International Law Reform and State-making
Ukri Soirila
ISBN 9781509938919
Published August 2021
Hart Publishing
£90.00
Intertemporal Linguistics in International Law: Beyond Contemporaneous and Evolutionary Treaty Interpretation
Julian Wyatt
ISBN 9781509952281
Published July 2021
Hart Publishing
£44.99
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Predictability and Flexibility in the Law of Maritime Delimitation
Yoshifumi Tanaka
ISBN 9781509952144
Published June 2021
Hart Publishing
£49.99
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Allocating International Responsibility Between Member States and International Organisations
Nikolaos Voulgaris
ISBN 9781509946044
Published March 2021
Hart Publishing
£39.99
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General Principles as a Source of International Law: Art 38(1)(c) of the Statute of the International Court of Justice
Imogen Saunders
ISBN 9781509936069
Published February 2021
Hart Publishing
£100.00
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General Principles as a Source of International Law: Art 38(1)(c) of the Statute of the International Court of Justice (eBook)
Imogen Saunders
ISBN 9781509936076
Published February 2021
Hart Publishing
£40.49

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Human Rights Commitments of Islamic States: Sharia, Treaties and Consensus (eBook)
Paul McDonough
ISBN 9781509919710
Published December 2020
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£35.09

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Human Rights Commitments of Islamic States: Sharia, Treaties and Consensus
Paul McDonough
ISBN 9781509919703
Published December 2020
Hart Publishing
£95.00
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Prosecutorial Discretion at the International Criminal Court
Anni Pues
ISBN 9781509928682
Published July 2020
Hart Publishing
£100.00
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Prosecutorial Discretion at the International Criminal Court (eBook)
Anni Pues
ISBN 9781509928699
Published July 2020
Hart Publishing
£35.09

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The Role of Multilateral Environmental Agreements: A Reconciliatory Approach to Environmental Protection in Armed Conflict (eBook)
Britta Sjostedt
ISBN 9781509922543
Published May 2020
Hart Publishing
£38.69

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The Role of Multilateral Environmental Agreements: A Reconciliatory Approach to Environmental Protection in Armed Conflict
Britta Sjostedt
ISBN 9781509922536
Published May 2020
Hart Publishing
£100.00
Cover of The Readmission of Asylum Seekers under International Law (eBook)
The Readmission of Asylum Seekers under International Law (eBook)
Mariagiulia Giuffré
ISBN 9781509902521
Published February 2020
Hart Publishing
£38.69

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The Readmission of Asylum Seekers under International Law
Mariagiulia Giuffré
ISBN 9781509902491
Published February 2020
Hart Publishing
£100.00
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Feminist Engagement with International Criminal Law: Norm Transfer, Complementarity, Rape and Consent (eBook)
Eithne Dowds
ISBN 9781509921904
Published January 2020
Hart Publishing
£35.99

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Feminist Engagement with International Criminal Law: Norm Transfer, Complementarity, Rape and Consent
Eithne Dowds
ISBN 9781509921898
Published January 2020
Hart Publishing
£95.00
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The International Committee of the Red Cross and its Mandate to Protect and Assist: Law and Practice
Christy Shucksmith
ISBN 9781509935727
Published December 2019
Hart Publishing
£35.99
Cover of Intertemporal Linguistics in International Law: Beyond Contemporaneous and Evolutionary Treaty Interpretation (eBook)
Intertemporal Linguistics in International Law: Beyond Contemporaneous and Evolutionary Treaty Interpretation (eBook)
Julian Wyatt
ISBN 9781509929504
Published December 2019
Hart Publishing
£40.49

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Intertemporal Linguistics in International Law: Beyond Contemporaneous and Evolutionary Treaty Interpretation
Julian Wyatt
ISBN 9781509929498
Published December 2019
Hart Publishing
£100.00