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Books

Editor of Gender and Human Rights, ed., (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004). (view abstract)

Diversity and Self-Determination in International Law, (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002).

Re-Thinking Federalism: Citizens, Markets and Governments in a Changing World (with Sylvia Ostry, Richard Simeon & Katherine Swinton, eds.) (Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press, 1995).

Chapters in Books

“Looking at Portraits,” in Immi Tallgren, ed, Portraits of Women in International Law: New Names and Forgotten Faces? (Oxford: Oxford University Press, forthcoming).

“Gender and the Lost Private Side of International Law,” in Annabel Brett, Megan Donaldson and Martti Koskenniemi, eds, History, Politics, Law: Thinking Through the International (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2021) 357-379.

“The Hidden City in International Legal Thought,” in Helmut Philipp Aust and Janne Nijman, eds, Research Handbook on International Law and Cities (Edward Elgar, 2021) 442-454.

“The Spectre of Comity,” in Jacco Bomhoff, David Dyzenhaus and Thomas Poole, eds, The Double-Facing Constitution (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020) 177-210.

“Foreign Relations Law: Comparison as Invention,” in Curtis Bradley, ed., Oxford Handbook of Comparative Foreign Relations Law (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2019) 45-61.

“The War Against Cliché: Dispatches from the International Legal Front,” in Christine Chinkin and Freya Baetens, eds., Sovereignty, Statehood and State Responsibility: Essays in Honour of James Crawford (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2015) (with Susan Marks) 3-22.

"Statehood - Territory, People, Government" in James Crawford and Martti Koskenniemi, eds., Cambridge Companion to International Law (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012) 95-116.

"International Law and the Disaggregated Democratic State: Two Case Studies on Women's Human Rights and the United States" in Claire Charters and Dean R. Knight, eds., We, the People(s): Participation in Governance (Wellington: Victoria University Press, 2011) 75-116.

"State Law Without Its State" in Austin Sarat, Lawrence Douglas and Martha Merrill Umphrey, eds., Law Without Nations (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2011) 66-100.

"The Tokyo Women's Tribunal and the Turn to Fiction" in Fleur Johns, Richard Joyce and Sundya Pahuja, eds., Events: The Force of International Law (London: Routledge, 2010) 145-164.

"The Hart-Fuller Debate's Silence on Human Rights" in Peter Cane, ed., The Hart-Fuller Debate: in the Twenty-First Century (Oxford: Hart Publishing, 2010) 61-78.

"Introduction" in Karen Knop, ed., Gender and Human Rights (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004) 1-12.

"Relational Nationality: On Gender and Nationality in International Law" in T.A. Aleinikoff and D. Klusmeyer, eds., Citizenship Today: Global Perspectives and Practices (Washington, D.C.: Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, 2001) 89-124.

"The 'Righting' of Recognition: Recognition of States in Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union" in Yves Le Bouthillier, Donald M. McRae & Donat Pharand, eds., Selected Papers in International Law: Contribution of the Canadian Council on International Law (The Hague: Kluwer, 1999) 261-290.

"Why Rethinking the Sovereign State is Important for Women's International Human Rights Law" in Rebecca J. Cook, ed., Human Rights of Women: National and International Perspectives (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1994) 153-164.

"Por qué es importante para los derechos humanos internacionales de la mujer, reconceptualizer el Estado soberano?" in Rebecca J. Cook, ed., Derechos Humanos de la Mujer: Perspectivas Nacionales e Internacionales 145-155.

Articles

"Introduction to the Symposium on Prosper Weil, ‘Towards Relative Normativity in International Law?’”(2020) 114 AJIL Unbound 67-71.

Editor,  Symposium on Prosper Weil, ‘Towards Relative Normativity in International Law?’” (2020) 114 AJIL Unbound 67.

“Introducing Patrick Macklem, The Sovereignty of Human Rights: Four Contexts” (2017) 67 University of Toronto Law Journal 418-434.

Elegance in Global Law: Reading Neil Walker, Intimations of Global Law” (2017) 8 Transnational Legal Theory 330-337.

Space, Time and Historical Injustice: A Feminist Conflict-of-Laws Approach to the ‘Comfort Women’ Agreement” (2017) 102 Cornell Law Review 853-927 (with Annelise Riles).

A Market for Sovereignty? The Roles of Other States in Self-Determination” (2016) 54 Osgoode Hall Law Journal 491-510.

“Lorimer’s Private Citizens of the World” (2016) 27 European Journal of International Law 447-475.

“Introduction to Symposium on Theorizing TWAIL Activism” (2016) 110 AJIL Unbound 18-19 (with James Thuo Gathii and Henry J. Richardson, III).

Diplomacy and Its Others: The Case of Korean Comfort Women,” (2014) 6(1) Ewha Journal of Gender and Law (Korean law journal) 1-28 (with Monica Eppinger and Annelise Riles).

"From Multiculturalism to Technique: Feminism, Culture, and the Conflict of Laws Style" (2012) 64 Stanford Law Review 589-656 (with Ralf Michaels and Annelise Riles).

Foreword, Symposium: "Transdisciplinary Conflict of Laws" (2008) 71:3 Law and Contemporary Problems 1-17 (with Ralf Michaels and Annelise Riles).

Editor, Symposium: "Transdisciplinary Conflict of Laws" (2008) 71:3 Law and Contemporary Problems (with Ralf Michaels and Annelise Riles).

"Citizenship, Public and Private" (2008) 71:3 Law and Contemporary Problems 309-341.

"Eunomia is a Woman: Philip Allott and Feminism" (2005) 16 European Journal of International Law 315.

"Utopia Without Apology: Form and Imagination in the Work of Ronald St. John Macdonald" (2002) 40 Canadian Yearbook of International Law 287.

"Narrowing the Field: A Reply to Hurst Hannum, Robert Hayden, and Wendy Lacey" in Book Forum on Karen Knop, Diversity and Self-Determination in International Law (2003) 3 Macquarie Law Journal 194.

"Reflections on Thomas Franck, Race and Nationalism (1960): 'General Principles of Law' and Situated Generality" (2003) 35 New York University Journal of International Law and Politics 437-469.

"Remembering Chrystal Macmillan" (2001) 22 Michigan Journal of International Law 523 (with Christine Chinkin).

"Here and There: International Law in Domestic Courts" (2000) 32 New York University Journal of International Law and Politics 501.

"Re/Statements: Feminism and State Sovereignty in International Law" (1993) 3 Transnational Law and Contemporary Problems 293.

"Federalism, Secession, and the Limits of Ethnic Accommodation: A Canadian Perspective" (1993) 1 New Europe Law Review 269 (with R. Howse).

Review Essays and Book Reviews

Review of Paolo Amorosa, The American Project and the Politics of History: James Brown Scott and the Origins of International Law Finnish Yearbook of International Law (forthcoming).

Review of Anne-Charlotte Martineau, The Debate on the Fragmentation of International Law: A Critical Analysis (2014) 24 Finnish Yearbook of International Law 335-349.

“Hard Facts: Implications of Policy Diffusion for International Law,” Review Essay on Katerina Linos, The Democratic Foundations of Policy Diffusion: How Health, Family and Employment Laws Spread Across Countries (2014) 108 American Journal of International Law 843-850.

Review of James Summers, The Idea of the People: The Right of Self-Determination, Nationalism and the Legitimacy of International Law (2004) 15 Finnish Yearbook of International Law 410-417.

Reports

"International Law Association Committee on Feminism and International Law, Women's Equality and Nationality in International Law" (Final Report 2000).

"International Law Association Committee on Feminism and International Law, Women's Equality and Nationality in International Law" (Preliminary Report (1998).

Papers in Conference Proceedings 

"International Law in Domestic Courts: A Conflict of Laws Approach" (2010) 103 American Society of International Law Proceedings 269-274 (with Ralf Michaels and Annelise Riles).

"The Private Side of Citizenship" (2007) 101 American Society of International Law Proceedings 34-37.

"A New Focus for Theory" (Proceedings of a Joint Meeting of the Australian and New Zealand Society of International Law and the American Society of International Law Canberra, June 2000) 279.

"Of the Male Persuasion: The Power of Liberal Internationalism for Women" (1999) 93 American Society of International Law Proceedings 177.

"Borders of the Imagination: The State in Feminist International Law" (1994) 88 American Society of International Law Proceedings 14.

"Beyond Borders: Women's Rights and the Issue of Sovereignty" in Joanna Kerr, ed., Ours By Right: Women's Rights as Human Rights (Zed Books & North-South Institute, 1993) 75.

"The 'Righting' of Recognition: Recognition of States in Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union" (1992) 21 Canadian Council on International Law Proceedings 36. 

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