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Ukri Soirila, The Law of Humanity Project A Story of International Law Reform and State-making, Hart, 2021, 208pp, £80.00

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Ukri Soirila, The Law of Humanity Project A Story of International Law Reform and State-making, Hart, 2021, 208pp, £80.00

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 August 2022

Alexander Gilder
Alexander Gilder*
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Lecturer in International Law and Security and Deputy Director, Global Law at Reading, University of Reading [[email protected]].
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Leiden Journal of International Law , Volume 35 , Issue 4 , December 2022 , pp. 1033 - 1037
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© The Author(s), 2022. Published by Cambridge University Press on behalf of The Foundation of the Leiden Journal of International Law in association with the Grotius Centre for International Law, Leiden University

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References

1 U. Soirila, The Law of Humanity Project A Story of International Law Reform and State-making (2021), 1–2.

2 Ibid., at 2.

3 Ibid., at 11–12.

4 K. Alter, ‘The Future of International Law’, in D.Ayton-Shenker (ed.), The New Global Agenda (2018); A. Sari and A. Jachec-Neale, ‘International Law in 2050’ (ECIL Occasional Paper 2018/1), SSRN, 6 June 2018, available at ssrn.com/abstract=3180686.

5 Soirila, supra note 1, at 159.

6 A. Peters, ‘Humanity as the A and Ω of Sovereignty’, (2009) 20 European Journal of International Law 513–44, at 514; R. Domingo, The New Global Law (2010), xvi.

7 Soirila, supra note 1, at 44.

8 Ibid., at 46.

9 Ibid., at 47.

10 Ibid., at 47–9.

11 Ibid., at 50–1.

12 Ibid., at 63.

13 Ibid., at 51.

14 Ibid.

15 J. Thérien, ‘Human Security: The Making of a UN Ideology’, (2012) 26 Global Society 191–213, at 209.

16 W. Benedek, ‘Mainstreaming human security in United Nations and European Union peace and crisis management operations’, in W. Benedek, M. Kettemann and M. Möstl (eds.), Mainstreaming Human Security in Peace Operations and Crisis Mangagement (2011), 13–31, at 19.

17 Soirila, supra note 1, at 52; C. Byk, ‘Is human dignity a useless concept? Legal perspectives’, in Düwell et al., The Cambridge Handbook of Human Dignity: Interdisciplinary Perspectives (2015), 362–7, at 364.

18 Soirila, ibid., at 53–4.

19 Ibid., at 80.

20 See, e.g., S. Daft, The Relationship Between Human Security Discourse and International Law: A Principled Approach (2017); A. Gilder, ‘International law and human security in a kaleidoscopic world’, (2021) 59 Indian Journal of International Law 111–37; C. Dupré, The Age of Dignity: Human Rights and Constitutionalism in Europe (2015).

21 B. von Tigerstrom, Human Security and International Law (2007), 49.

22 B. Weiss, Establishing Norms in a Kaleidoscopic World (2020).

23 See Alter, supra note 4.

24 E. Jouannet, ‘What Is the Use of International Law? International law as a 21st Century Guardian of Welfare’, (2006–2007) 28 Michigan Journal of International Law 815, 821.

5 See Sari and Jachec-Neale supra note 4, at v.

26 D. Bethlehem, ‘The End of Geography: The Changing Nature of the International System and the Challenge to International Law’, (2014) 25 European Journal of International Law 9–24.

27 G. Oberleitner, ‘Porcupines in Love: The Intricate Convergence of Human Rights and Human Security’, (2005) 6 European Human Rights Law Review 588–606, at 600.

28 R. Howard-Hassmann, ‘Human Security: Undermining Human Rights?’, (2012) 34(1) Human Rights Quarterly 88–112, at 106.

29 Soirila, supra note 1, at 82–90.

30 Ibid., at 90–100.

31 Ibid., at 120.

32 Ibid., at 121.

33 Ibid., at 123.

34 I. Mgbeoji, ‘The Civilised Self and the Barbaric Other: Imperial Delusions of Order and the Challenges of Human Security’, (2006) 27 Third World Quarterly 855, at 861.

35 See, e.g., A. Anghie, ‘Europe and International Law’s Colonial Present’, (2012) 6 Baltic Yearbook of International Law 79, at 82.

36 A. Gilder, ‘Human security, TWAIL, and the importance of self-reflection in our own scholarship’, (2021) 54 NYU Journal of International Law and Politics Online Forum 1–13.

37 Soirila, supra note 1, at 141–7.

38 Ibid., 143–4.

39 Ibid., at 147–8.

40 Ibid., at 149.

41 Ibid., at 150.

42 Ibid., at 151.

43 Ibid., at 153.

44 Ibid., at 156.

45 Ibid., at 158.

46 Ibid., at 159.