Tor Krever

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

Lys Kulamadayil, Tor Krever, Praggya Surana

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Ending impunity or entrenching impunity? International criminal law and the political economy of late capitalism

Tor Krever

Recovering the Radical Tradition in the International Legal History of Decolonisation

Tor Krever

Abstract Despite growing interest in the international legal history of decolonisation, significant elisions remain. Through a ‘symptomatic reading’ of recent engagements with that history, this article argues that such work contributes to an erasure of the Marxist tradition in the history of …

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Limits of the Portrait

Tor Krever

Interest in the history of international law has increased dramatically over the past few decades, the work of critical scholars doing much to disrupt the field’s celebratory narratives and lay bar...

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Palestine and the limits of international law

Tor Krever

In the wake of Israel’s most recent attacks on Gaza, international law took on renewed prominence in political discourse, with popular interest in international legal proceedings at a level seldom seen before. The article looks critically at the turn to international law …

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On international law and Gaza: critical reflections

Tor Krever, Marina Veličković, Frédéric Mégret, Karen Engle et autres

As Israel’s assault on Gaza continues into its tenth month, the language of legality has become the dominant frame of popular and political discourse. Public interest in the International Court of Justice (ICJ) and its proceedings is at a level perhaps never …

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Heretical enemy or vanguard of commerce? The pirate in the 16th-century legal and literary imagination

Tor Krever

This article uses legal and literary accounts of Francis Drake’s 16th-century depredations to consider the historical figure of the pirate in legal thought. Against the transhistorical figure of universal enmity of many international legal accounts, the article argues that the 16th-century pirate …

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Liberalism’s Warring Souls

Tor Krever

A life in human rights: a conversation with Dennis Davis

Tor Krever

Abstract Dennis Davis is Judge of the High Court of South Africa, Judge President of the Competition Appeal Court, and Honorary Professor of Law at the University of Cape Town. In this wide-ranging conversation with Tor Krever, he reflects on his political …

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Into the Bramble Patch

Tor Krever

With Biden pledging to restore the ‘rules-based order’, a redemptive history—describing the triumph of a peaceful new world order over its war-torn forerunner—has taken shape in the field of international legal theory. Tor Krever scrutinizes this narrative through the work of two …

The rule of law and the rise of capitalism

Tor Krever

This chapter considers the relationship between the rule of law and the rise of capitalism, tracing the development and insights of two prominent theoretical traditions. One tradition is rooted in the social theory of Max Weber and his work on legal rationality …

The ideological origins of piracy in international legal thought.

Tor Krever

This thesis explores the origins of the pirate in international legal thought. It takes as its starting point the recent wave of piracy off the coast of Somalia, mapping the image of the pirate constructed by contemporary legal commentators. The figure of …

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