Jean d'Aspremont, Işıl Aral (dir.), International Law and Universality, Oxford University Press, 2024, European Society of International Law, 352 p.
This book takes an unflinching look at the roles and functions played by the idea of universality in international legal discourses, as well as the narratives of progress that often accompany it. In doing so, it provides a critical appraisal of the mechanisms of inclusion and exclusion attendant to international law and its universalist discursive strategies. Universality is therefore not reduced to the question of the geographical outreach of international law but is instead understood in terms of boundaries. This entails examining how the idea of universality was developed in the dominant vernaculars of international law - primarily English and French - before being universalised and imposed upon international lawyers from all traditions. This analysis simultaneously offers an opportunity to revisit the ideologies that constitute the identity of international lawyers today, as well as the socialisation and legal educational processes that international lawyers undergo. With an emphasis on the binaries that arise from the invocation of the idea of universality in international legal discourses, this book sheds new light on the idea of universality as a fraught site of contestation in international legal discourses.
Jean d'Aspremont, Işıl Aral, Expansionism in International Human Rights Law, BRILL, 2024, 106 p.
Jean d'Aspremont, The Experiences of International Organizations: A Phenomenological Approach to International Institutional Law, Edward Elgar Publishing, 2023, 208 p.
"This groundbreaking book uses the idea of experience to investigate the various ways in which international organizations are understood and captured by judges, legal practitioners, legal researchers, legal theorists, and thinkers of global governance. Adopting a unique phenomenological approach, Jean d'Aspremont questions the key patterns of thought that inform the legal practice of international organizations, arguing that said organizations are the product of five specific experiences: affection, insulation, edification, restriction, and conciliation. Through this critical lens, d'Aspremont highlights the limits of the current conceptualizations of international organizations which populate legal practice and legal literature. In doing so, the book crucially develops contemporary discourse on how international lawyers build their claims about the status, rights, duties, responsibilities, failures and falls of international organizations; and assesses how international organizations are thought about in relation to international law, international relations and studies of global governance. Insightful and thought-provoking, this distinct approach will be a fundamental resource for researchers, scholars and theorists in law and politics, legal theory, international relations and public international law. Professionals and practitioners working in these sectors will also find this book an enlightening read"
Jean d'Aspremont, John Haskell (dir.), Tipping Points in International Law: commitment and critique, 1e éd., Cambridge University Press et Cambridge University Press, 2021, ASIL studies in international legal theory, 390 p.
"Addressing some of the most perilous, controversial issues in international law and governance, this volume brings together legal scholars from diverse geographic, personal and scholarly perspectives. They reflect on the pervasive feeling of crisis in the world today and share their views on the possibilities and limits of the international legal architecture and its expert communities in shaping the world of tomorrow. What exactly is this feeling that the contemporary international legal architecture is at a tipping point? What do these possible risks expose about the fragility and limits of our current conceptual and institutional order? What commitments drive our hopes and anxieties? Authors explore these questions across a wide range of possible tipping points and offer readers a unique snapshot of the lived experience of what it means to be an expert engaged right now in international law and governance. Each chapter covers both theory and practice in analysing a current problem."
Jean d'Aspremont, The Discourse on Customary International Law, Oxford University Press, 2021, 192 p.
This book provides an accessible and highly engaging discussion of customary international law. It employs an original theoretical perspective to unpack the structures of thought that lie beneath any claims made regarding customary international law
Jean d'Aspremont, After Meaning : the sovereignty of forms in international law, Edward Elgar Publishing, 2021, Elgar studies in legal theory, 168 p.
"Inspiring and distinctive, After Meaning provides a radical challenge to the way in which international law is thought and practised. Jean d’Aspremont asserts that the words and texts of international law, as forms, never carry or deliver meaning but, instead, perpetually defer meaning and ensure it is nowhere found within international legal discourse. In challenging the dominant meaning-centrism of the international legal discourse and shedding light on the sovereignty of forms, this book promotes a radical new attitude towards textuality in international law. The author offers new perspectives on interpretation, critique, history, comparison, translation and referencing, inviting international lawyers to reinvent their engagement with these discourses. Chapters define meaning and form in international law, explore deferral of meaning and make an unprecedented use of post-structuralist theory to rethink international law. After Meaning will be an essential reference point for legal scholars, researchers and students who seek to understand a different way of thinking about meaning in international law. The book’s engagement with post-structuralism will also prove beneficial to anyone interested in the philosophy of language and literary theory."
Jean d'Aspremont, Sufyan Droubi (dir.), International organisations, non-State actors, and the formation of customary international law, Manchester University Press, 2020, Melland Schill perspectives on international law, 456 p.
This collection of essays provides a study of the theory and practice of the contribution of international organisations and non-state actors to the formation of customary international law. The book offers new practical and theoretical perspectives on this topic
Jean d'Aspremont (dir.), The History and Theory of International Law, Edward Elgar Publishing, 2020, International law, 1707 p.
Jean d'Aspremont, Iain Scobbie, Sufyan Droubi (dir.), Melland Schill perspectives on international law, Manchester University Press, 2020
Jean d'Aspremont, The Critical Attitude and the History of International Law, Brill Publishers, 2019, Brill research perspectives ( International legal theory and practice ), 60 p.
Jean d'Aspremont, Jean d'Aspremont, Sahib Singh, Sahib Singh (dir.), Concepts for international law: contributions to disciplinary thought, Edward Elgar Publishing, 2019, 945 p.
Jean d'Aspremont, International Law as a Belief System, 133e éd., Cambridge University Press, 2018, Cambridge studies in international and comparative law, 169 p.
Jean d'Aspremont, Samantha Besson (dir.), The Oxford handbook on the sources of international law, Oxford University Press, 2018, Oxford handbooks Online
Jean d'Aspremont, Sévrine Knuchel, Samantha Besson (dir.), The Oxford Handbook of the Sources of International Law, Oxford University Press, 2018
Jean d'Aspremont, Samantha Besson, Sévrine Knuchel (dir.), The Oxford handbook on the sources of international law, Oxford University Press, 2017, Oxford Handbooks, 1171 p.
Jean d'Aspremont, Tarcisio Gazzini, André Nollkaemper, W. G. Werner (dir.), International law as a profession, Cambridge University Press, 2017, 447 p.
Jean d'Aspremont, Epistemic forces in international law: foundational doctrines and techniques of international legal argumentation, Edward Elgar, 2015, Elgar international law, 263 p.
Jean d'Aspremont, Jörg Kammerhofer (dir.), International legal positivism in a post-modern world, Cambridge University Press, 2014, 540 p.
Jean d'Aspremont, Jérôme de Hemptinne, Droit international humanitaire: Thèmes choisis, Editions Pedone, 2012, EI, 508 p.
Jean d'Aspremont, Formalism and the Sources of International Law: A Theory of the Ascertainment of Legal Rules, Oxford University Press, 2011, Oxford monographs in international law, 266 p.
Jean d'Aspremont (dir.), Participants in the international legal system: multiple perspectives on non-state actors in international law, Routledge, 2011, Routledge research in international law, 448 p.
Jean d'Aspremont, L'État non démocratique en droit international: étude critique du droit international positif et de la pratique contemporaine, A. Pedone, 2008, Publication de la Revue générale de droit international public ( Nouvelle série ), 375 p.
Jean d'Aspremont, Iain Scobbie (dir.), Melland Schill classics in international law, Manchester University Press, 1961
Jean d'Aspremont, « Tradition and International Law: Pre-Discursivity as a Source? », in Ezequiel Heffes, Manuel Ventura, Hollie Johnston (dir.), Non-Traditional Sources of International Law: What Lies Beyond Article 38(1)(a)-(d) of the ICJ Statute, Springer, 2024, pp. 25
Jean d'Aspremont, « Consenting to International Law in Five Moves », in Samantha Besson (dir.), Consenting to International Law, Cambridge University Press, 2023
Jean d'Aspremont, « International Legal Positivism and the European Quest for Scientificity », in Oxford University Press (dir.), The Oxford Handbook of International Law in Europe, Oxford University Press, 2023
Jean d'Aspremont, « International Legal Positivism », in Jeffrey L. Dunoff, Mark A. Pollack (dir.), International Legal Theory : Foundations and Frontiers, Cambridge University Press, 2022, pp. 63-81
Jean d'Aspremont, « The Custom-Making Moment in Customary International Law », The Theory, Practice, and Interpretation of Customary International Law, Cambridge University Press, 2022, pp. 29-39
Jean d'Aspremont, Fabian Cardenas, « International Investment Law in Latin America: Universalizing Resistance », in Sufyan Droubi, Cecilia Juliana Flores Elizondo (dir.), Latin America and international investment law: A mosaic of resistance, Manchester University Press, 2022
Jean d'Aspremont, « The Law of Statehood as a Constellation of Hybrids », in Jure Vidmar, Sarah McGibbon (dir.), Research Handbook on Secession, Edward Elgar, 2022, pp. 29-41
Jean d'Aspremont, « The roles of legitimacy in international legal discourses: Legitimizing law vs legalizing legitimacy », in Heike Krieger, Jonas Püschmann (dir.), Law-Making and Legitimacy in International Humanitarian Law, EDWARD ELGAR, 2021, pp. 1632
Jean d'Aspremont, « A Worldly Law in a Legal World », International Law's Invisible Frames, Oxford University Press, 2021
Jean d'Aspremont, « International legal methods: Working for a tragic and cynical routine », in Rossana Deplano, Nicholas Tsagourias (dir.), Research Methods in International Law, Edward Elgar Publishing, 2021, pp. 4259
Jean d'Aspremont, « Turntablism in the History of International Law », in Raphael Schäfer, Anne Peters (dir.), Politics and the Histories of International Law : The Quest for Knowledge and Justice, Brill Nijhoff, 2021
Jean d'Aspremont, « International Lawyers and Legal Forms », Whither the West?, Cambridge University Press, 2021, pp. 13-32
Jean d'Aspremont, « Unlearning some common tropes », in Sufyan Droubi, Jean D'aspremont (dir.), International organisations, non-State actors, and the formation of customary international law, Manchester University Press, 2020
Jean d'Aspremont, Sufyan Droubi, « Introduction: Stories about International Organisations, Non-State Actors and the Formation of Customary International Law », in Sufyan Droubi, Jean D'aspremont (dir.), International organisations, non-State actors, and the formation of customary international law, Manchester University Press, 2020
Jean d'Aspremont, « Les effets internationaux des lois et décisions nationales : un rôle implausible pour le droit international public », Le tournant global en droit international privé, Pedone, 2020
Jean d'Aspremont, « Canonical Cross-Referencing in the Making of the Law of International Responsibility », in Serena Forlati, Makane Moise Mbengue, Brian Mcgarry (dir.), The Gabčíkovo-Nagymaros Judgment and Its Contribution to the Development of International Law, Brill Publishers, 2020, pp. 22-40
Jean d'Aspremont, « The Two Cultures of International Criminal Law », in Kevin Heller, Frédéric Mégret, Sarah Nouwen, Jens David Ohlin, Darryl Robinson (dir.), The Oxford Handbook of International Criminal Law, Oxford University Press, 2020
Jean d'Aspremont, Alicia Köppen, « Global Reform versus Regional Emancipation: the Principles on International Investment for Sustainable Development in Africa », in Yenkong Ngangjoh Hodu, Makane Moise Mbengue (dir.), African Perspectives in International Investment Law, Manchester University Press, 2020, pp. 18-29
Jean d'Aspremont, « The Control over Knowledge by International Courts and Arbitral Tribunals », in Thomas Schultz, Federico Ortino (dir.), The Oxford Handbook of International Arbitration, Oxford University Press, 2020
Jean d'Aspremont, « Current Theorizations about the Treaty in International Law », in Duncan B Hollis (dir.), The Oxford Guide to Treaties, Oxford University Press, 2020, pp. 46-58
Jean d'Aspremont, Fabian Cardenas, « Epistemic Communities in International Adjudication », Max Planck Encyclopedia of International Procedural Law [MPEiPro], Oxford University Press, 2020
Jean d'Aspremont, « Do Non-State Actors Strengthen or Weaken International Law? », in Heike Krieger (dir.), The International Rule of Law, Oxford University Press, 2019
Jean d'Aspremont, Hannah Buxbaum, « Mysteries of extraterritoriality: RJR Nabisco, Inc. v European Community », in Horatia Muir Watt, Lucia Bíziková, Agatha Brandão de Oliveira, Diego Fernandez Arroyo (dir.), Global Private International Law: Adjudication without frontiers, Edward Elgar Publishing, 2019
Jean d'Aspremont, « Bindingness », in Jean D'aspremont, Sahib Singh (dir.), Concepts for International Law, Edward Elgar Publishing, 2019, pp. 67-82
Jean d'Aspremont, « The General Claims Commission (Mexico and the United States) and the Invention of International Responsibility », in Ignacio De la Rasilla, Jorge E Vinuales (dir.), Experiments in International Adjudication, Cambridge University Press, 2019
Jean d'Aspremont, « The General Claims Commission (Mexico/US) and the Invention of International Responsibility », in Ignacio De La Rasilla, Jorge Vinuales, Ignacio De la Rasilla, Jorge Vinuales (dir.), Experiments in International Adjudication, Cambridge University Press, 2019
Jean d'Aspremont, « Statehood and Recognition in International Law: A Post-Colonial Invention », The Global Community Yearbook of International Law and Jurisprudence 2018, Oxford University Press, 2019
Jean d'Aspremont, Sahib Singh, « Introduction: The life of international law and its concepts », in Jean d’Aspremont, Sahib Singh (dir.), Concepts for International Law, Edward Elgar Publishing, 2019, pp. 124
Jean d'Aspremont, Eric de Brabandere, « Paintings of International Law's Textbooks », in Jessie Hohmann, Daniel Joyce (dir.), International Law's Objects, Oxford University Press, 2018
Jean d'Aspremont, « What Was Not Meant to Be: General Principles of Law as a Source of International Law », in Ricardo Pisillo Mazzeschi, Pasquale De Sena (dir.), Global Justice, Human Rights, and the Modernization of International Law, Springer, 2018
Jean d'Aspremont, « International legal constitutionalism, legal forms and the need for villains », in Anthony F. Lang, Antje Wiener (dir.), Handbook on Global Constitutionalism, Edward Elgar Publishing, 2017
Jean d'Aspremont, Samantha Besson, « The Sources of International Law : An Introduction », in Besson, Samantha and d'Aspremont, Jean (dir.), The Oxford Handbook of the Sources of International Law, Oxford University Press, 2017, pp. 1--39
Jean d'Aspremont, « International Lawyers and the International Court of Justice: Between Cult and Contempt », The International Legal Order: Current Needs and Possible Responses : Essays in Honour of Djamchid Momtaz, Brill | Nijhoff, 2017
Jean d'Aspremont, « The Professionalisation of International Law », International Law as a Profession, Cambridge University Press, 2017, pp. 19-37
Jean d'Aspremont, Daniel Ventura, « « Chapitre 13 – La composition des organes et le processus décisionnel » », E. LAGRANGE, J.-M. SOREL (dir.), Droit des organisations internationales, Paris, LGDJ, 2013, 1197 p., pp. 402-432, 2013
Jean d'Aspremont, « Un-Loving International Organizations », International Organizations Law Review, Brill Academic Publishers, 2024, n°3
Jean d'Aspremont, « Fairness and the Quaintness of International Legal Debates in Europe », European Journal of International Law, Oxford University Press (OUP), 2024, n°1
Jean d'Aspremont, « The Demanding Idea of Consent to International Law », Saint Louis University Law Journal, Saint Louis University, 2024, n°2
Jean d'Aspremont, « The chivalric pursuit of coherence in international law », Leiden Journal of International Law, Cambridge University Press (CUP), 2023, pp. 1-8
Jean d'Aspremont, « The Love for International Organizations », International Organizations Law Review, Brill Academic Publishers, 2023, n°2
Jean d'Aspremont, « Affects, Emotions, and the Cartesian Epistemology of International Law », Journal of International Dispute Settlement, , 2023, n°3
Jean d'Aspremont, « Two Attitudes towards Textuality in International Law: The Battle for Dualism », Oxford Journal of Legal Studies, Oxford University Press (OUP), 2022, n°4
Jean d'Aspremont, « Legal imagination and the thinking of the impossible », Leiden Journal of International Law, Cambridge University Press (CUP), 2022, n°4
Jean d'Aspremont, « International Law and the Rage against Scienticism », European Journal of International Law, Oxford University Press (OUP), 2022, n°2
Jean d'Aspremont, Binxin Zhang, « China and international law: Two tales of an encounter », Leiden Journal of International Law, Cambridge University Press (CUP), 2021, n°4
Jean d'Aspremont, « Legal Imagination as Resistance », Rechtsgeschichte - Legal History. Journal of the Max Planck Institute for European Legal History, Max Planck Institute, 2021, n°29
Jean d'Aspremont, « Belgium and the Fabrication of the International Legal Discipline », European Journal of International Law, Oxford University Press (OUP), 2020, n°4
Jean d'Aspremont, « Turntablism in the History of International Law », Journal of the History of International Law / Revue d'histoire du droit international, Martinus Nijhoff ; Koninklijke Brill N.V. (Leiden, Pays-Bas) , 2020, n°23
Jean d'Aspremont, « The League of Nations and the Power of “Experiment Narratives” in International Institutional Law », International Community Law Review, Martinus Nijhoff ; Koninklijke Brill N.V. (Leiden, Pays-Bas) , 2020, n°34
Jean d'Aspremont, André Nollkaemper, Christiane Ahlborn, Berenice Boutin, Nataša Nedeski [et alii], « Guiding Principles on Shared Responsibility in International Law », European Journal of International Law, Oxford University Press (OUP), 2020, n°1, pp. 15-72
Jean d'Aspremont, « The Routines of International Law », Ars Interpretandi: Journal of Legal Hermeneutics, , 2020, n°1, pp. 13-33
Jean d'Aspremont, « Comparativism and Colonizing Thinking in International Law », The Canadian Yearbook of International Law / Annuaire canadien de droit international, University of Brittsh Columbia Press (UBC Press) , 2020, n°57
Jean d'Aspremont, « Three International Lawyers in a Hall of Mirrors », Leiden Journal of International Law, Cambridge University Press (CUP), 2019, n°3
Jean d'Aspremont, « Critical Histories of International Law and the Repression of Disciplinary Imagination », London Review of International Law, Oxford University Press (OUP) (Oxford, Royaume-Uni) , 2019, n°1
Jean d'Aspremont, « The Four Lives of Customary International Law », International Community Law Review, Martinus Nijhoff ; Koninklijke Brill N.V. (Leiden, Pays-Bas) , 2019, n°34
Jean d'Aspremont, « A Postmodernization of Customary International Law for the First World? », AJIL Unbound, , 2018, n°112
Jean d'Aspremont, « Response: International Law and the Constitutive Virtues of Antagonism », Harvard International Law Journal, Harvard University, Harvard Law School, 2018
Jean d'Aspremont, « The International Court of Justice and the Irony of System-Design », Journal of International Dispute Settlement, , 2017
Jean d'Aspremont, Alicia Köppen, « Global Reform vs Regional Emancipation: The Principles on International Investment for Sustainable Development in Africa », ESIL Reflections, , 2017, n°2
Jean d'Aspremont, « Émergence et déclin de la gouvernance démocratique en droit international », Montréal : Société québécoise de droit international et PERSÉE : Université de Lyon, CNRS & ENS de Lyon, 2009, pp. 57-80
Les années 1989-2010 peuvent être considérées comme une époque – sans précédent dans l’histoire du droit international au cours de laquelle la gouvernance – interprétée ici comme l’exercice de l''autorité publique au niveau national à travers des institutions plus ou moins centralisées – s’est vue réglementée par un nombre grandissant de règles de droit international. Cette évolution s''est notamment traduite par l’émergence d''une obligation relative à l''origine démocratique des gouvernements. Cette obligation a été qualifiée dans la doctrine américaine de «principe de légitimité démocratique » . Toutefois, l’importance géostratégique acquise par certains États non démocratiques, la priorité désormais accordée à l’agenda sécuritaire, la crise économique de 2007-2010, ainsi que les instrumentalisations des politiques de démocratisation par certains pays occidentaux semblent avoir freiné la consolidation du principe de légitimité démocratique en droit international. En effet, le rôle que la démocratie a joué dans la pratique de la reconnaissance, la création d''États, les relations diplomatiques, la coopération économique, l''utilisation des forces multilatérales et l’accréditation au sein des organisations internationales semble s’être affaibli significativement, laissant présager la fin de cette époque toute singulière dans l’histoire du droit international. Après avoir brièvement décrit la consolidation (I) et l’affaiblissement contemporain (II) du principe de légitimité démocratique dans la pratique du droit international et la doctrine depuis 1989, cet article évaluera de manière critique les leçons tirées de cette période, en particulier s’agissant de la mesure dans laquelle le droit international est à même de réglementer la gouvernance au niveau national (III). Il se penchera enfin sur les diverses dynamiques qui ont traversé la doctrine ayant étudiée cette question au cours des deux dernières décennies (IV).
Jean d'Aspremont, Pierre D'Argent, « La commission des réclamations Érythrée/Éthiopie : un premier bilan », CNRS Editions, Paris : CNRS Editions et PERSÉE : Université de Lyon, CNRS & ENS de Lyon, 2007, pp. 347-396
D'Argent Pierre, d’Aspremont Jean. La commission des réclamations Érythrée/Éthiopie : un premier bilan. In: Annuaire français de droit international, volume 53, 2007. pp. 347-396.