The aim of the
Hague Yearbook of International Law is to offer a platform for review of new developments in the field of international law. In addition, it devotes attention to developments in the international law institutions based in the international City of Peace and Justice, The Hague.
This Special Issue of Yearbook stems from a conference organised by the Maastricht University Study Group for Critical Approaches to International Law in April 2022. The conference, entitled 'Deconstructing International Law,' invited participants to reflect on and dismantle some of the foundational ideas of international law.
Prof. Jure Vidmar is Chair of Public International Law at Maastricht University (The Netherlands). Prior to coming to Maastricht, he held teaching and research positions at the University of Oxford, Harvard Law School, University of Amsterdam and University of Nottingham. He is also affiliated with the Faculty of Law, University of Pretoria. Jure has published widely in several areas of international law. His books include
Democratic Statehood in International Law: The Emergence of New States in Post-Cold War Practice, Oxford, Hart, 2013, Runner-up for the Birks Prize for Outstanding Legal Scholarship in 2014) and
Hierarchy in International Law: The Place of Human Rights (Oxford, OUP, 2012, with Erika de Wet).
Prof. Ruth Bonnevalle-Kok is Associate Professor of Criminal Law and Criminal Procedure at the Faculty of Law of the University of Aruba. She was a Senior Legal Advisor at the Legal and Operational Affairs Department of the Ministry of Security and Justice of The Netherlands. Until 2014 she was a Member of the Legal Research Office (Section Criminal Law) of the Supreme Court of The Netherlands and served as a Substitute Judge at the district court. In 2007 she received her PhD from Amsterdam University for her doctoral thesis on
Statutory Limitations in International Criminal Law. She obtained her Law degree from Leiden University (The Netherlands). Her main expertise is (international) criminal law.
Editorial Notes on Contributors
1
Self-Determination of Peoples as a Zone of Exception within International Law A Deconstructive Enquiry
Przemyslaw Tacik
2
States Are Not Men Traces of International Law’s Creation Myth
Ralph Janik
3
When the Shoe Doesn’t Fit An African’s Deconstruction of the Notion of the Nation State
Ruth Osaretin Ogbewekon
4
History as Deconstruction, History as Reconstruction Time and Structure in Critical International Law
David M. Scott
5
Kosovo’s Legitimacy Paradox and the Role of Emotions in International Law Christopher R. Rossi
6
The Ideological Functions of Ecocide Daimeon Shanks
7
Creating Ontological Outlaws International Criminal Law and the Contamination of Liberal Legal Systems
Kerstin Bree Carlson