European Law Journal

Articles The Colonial Aftertaste: Algerian Wine, the French Appellation of Origin and the European Sovereignty-Property Complex in International Law Abstract The French wine laws of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, many of which were internationalized during the interwar and post-World War II eras, have been a vivid manifestation of European ‘state capitalism’ as evolving from the ‘immature’ independence of the economic sphere from the political sphere and the persistence of...

EJIL Debate! Statehood and International Organization: Rethinking Their Conceptual Relationship with Reference to Customary International Law – A Reply to Orfeas Chasapis Tassinis Abstract In his article entitled ‘Statehood and International Organization: Rethinking Their Conceptual Relationship with Reference to Customary International Law’, Orfeas Chasapis Tassinis aims to reconceptualize how international organizations relate to the ‘outside world’ with a focus on the applicability and...

Focus: The History of International Investment Law Shell and the Creation of International Investment Law, 1957–1968 Hommes, Wiebe 1 Ankersmit, Laurens 2 Abstract This article explores the role that Shell – in particular, through its legal department – played in shaping international investment law from 1957 to 1968. Drawing on a wide range of archival sources, including personal correspondence and governmental archives, it reconstructs Shell’s strategic campaign to protect foreign investments.

Critical Review of Jurisprudence Integrating Gender Equality into International Refugee Law: The Contribution of the Court of Justice of the European Union Nicolosi, Salvatore Fabio 1 Ertuna Lagrand, Türkan 2 Abstract This article sheds light on the role played by the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) in clarifying and expanding the scope of European Union (EU) asylum legislation to accommodate gender-related claims.

Focus: The History of International Investment Law The Negotiations of the OECD Draft Convention on the Protection of Foreign Property: Unpacking the Early Blueprint of International Investment Agreements Galán, Alexis 1 Perrone, Nicolás M Abstract Two multilateral processes marked the formation and consolidation of modern international investment law: the 1965 ICSID Convention and the 1967 Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development’s (OECD) Draft Convention on the Protection of...

Articles in Sarajevo? Bosnia and Herzegovina after 30 Years under International Supervision Knoll-Tudor, Bernhard 1 Prelec, Marko 2 Abstract This article examines the contested appointment of Christian Schmidt as High Representative for Bosnia and Herzegovina and evaluates the legal claim – advanced most vocally by the Russian Federation – that the post is vacant due to procedural irregularities.

Afterword: Susan Marks and Her Critics International Interdependence beyond the Family of Nations: Afterword to the Foreword by Susan Marks Abstract This afterword takes up Susan Marks’ argument to take seriously the metaphorical uses of the idea of the family in international law and to renew the terms by which we understand global interconnection.

Afterword: Susan Marks and Her Critics The Family Lie: Afterword to the Foreword by Susan Marks Abstract I wrote these thoughts in response to Susan Marks’ critique of the metaphor of the world as a family. I read Marks’ article while a genocide was raging relentlessly, so, of course, my thoughts revolved around the failure of the international community and of international law and its institutions to do anything to stop it.

Afterword: Susan Marks and Her Critics Forms of Families: Afterword to the Foreword by Susan Marks Abstract Susan Marks’ insightful and wide-ranging Foreword invites readers to reconsider the meaning of families and the circulation of familial discourse in and about international law.

Afterword: Susan Marks and Her Critics If the World Is Not a Family, What on Earth Is It? Afterword to the Foreword by Susan Marks Abstract While Susan Marks’ trenchant critique of the family metaphor in international law in her EJIL Foreword will resonate with many readers, her repudiation will fail to persuade those whose experience of the family is not entirely bleak.