International Law and the Politics of History

1. Neoformalism and the Turn to History in International Law
2. Situating the Turn to History in International Law
3. History and the Turn to the International
4. History's Lawyers
5. The Past in the Practice of International Law
6. The History of What?
7. Why Study the Past of International Law? History as Politics
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Anne Orford is Redmond Barry Distinguished Professor and Michael D. Kirby Chair of International Law at the University of Melbourne. She has held visiting professorships at Harvard, Lund, Gothenburg and Paris 1, and lectured at the Hague Academy of International Law. Her publications include Reading Humanitarian Intervention (2003), International Authority and the Responsibility to Protect (2011), Pensée Critique et Pratique du Droit International (2020), and the co-edited collections The Oxford Handbook of the Theory of International Law (2016) and Revolutions in International Law: The Legacies of 1917 (2021).