Ingo Venzke
Biographic Data
| ID | 1317733 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ingo Venzke |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ingo |
| FAMILY NAME | Venzke |
| SIGNATURE | VENZKE I |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Amsterdam |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5993-4869 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 22 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 41 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 22 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2008 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
The Pre-Removal Detention of Immigrants
The EU Return Directive demands that immigrant detention be as short as possible, but, by logical implication, this also means that detention can be as long as necessary. What concerns the maximum length of detention, the Return Directive is remarkably generous: Immigrants can be detained for a period of up to eighteen months—a deprivation of liberty that is otherwise justified only as punishment for serious crimes. The practice of such long-term…
Addressing issues and concerns raised by the publication of the ‘Gaza Marine article’
Political Models for Developing the Gaza Marine Gas Field' (the 'Gaza Marine article').We accept that much of the criticism is valid, and necessary, especially in light of the horrific, dehumanizing violence in Gaza.Even as we write this editorial, the World Health Organization is reporting that two million people are starving in Gaza. 1 This follows the relentless Israeli attack that had already, by January 2024, killed an estimated 25,700 Pales…
Going Open Access
Against impact
My faculty should still 'look at how British law schools are defining and measuring impact, since they operate at the forefront'.A quick dive into the British 'Research Evaluation Framework' (REF) reveals that impact accounts for 25% of the law schools' 'overall quality profile', next to their 'research output' (60%) and their 'research environment' (15%).It is quite similar for the Netherlands, where 'societal relevance in terms of impact' is al…
Auf Dem Weg Zu Einer Neuen Aufklärung
Of False Conflicts and Real Challenges
Assessments of the relationship between trade agreements and the climate regime often focus on the potential for normative conflict. Concerns that trade commitments may prevent the adoption of measures to curb climate change, or at least that these are two regimes that “point in different directions,” 1 are often voiced to suggest that taking climate action requires fundamentally modifying, and maybe getting rid of, current trade agreements. In t…
Ingo Venzke, Review of Sigrid Boysen, Die postkoloniale Konstellation
International Investment Protection Made in Germany? On the Domestic and Foreign Policy Dynamics behind the First BITs
The investment protection treaty concluded between Germany and Pakistan in 1959 is generally regarded as a milestone in the development of international investment law. It has entered the collective memory as the first bilateral investment treaty (BIT). In this article, we analyse archival sources to investigate why Germany and Pakistan concluded this agreement at that specific time and what makes this treaty the first of its kind. Through histor…
Narratives of Hunger in International Law
Sources in Interpretation Theories
It is generally recognized that interpretations do not take meanings from norms but give meanings to them. In this way, the practice of interpretation contributes to the process of international law-making. The chapter takes as a starting point the understanding of interpretation in international law as an argumentative practice about the meaning of legal norms. It asks which meaning interpreters should give to a norm and how they should justify …
Possibilities of the Past
The resurfacing interest in the New International Economic Order ( NIEO ) is mainly driven by the ambition of regaining a sense for past possibilities in order to question the present and to open up different futures. This ambition resonates with the core of critical thinking which pushes toward an appreciation of contingencies. What was possible? When approaching this question, however, historical inquiries must not overstate the possibilities o…
Moving Beyond Interdisciplinary Turf Wars
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Public Interests in the International Court of Justice—A Comparison Between Nuclear Arms Race (2016) and South West Africa (1966)
In the present essay I compare the 2016 judgment of the International Court of Justice (ICJ) in Nuclear Arms Race (Marshall Islands v. United Kingdom) with the Court's 1966 judgment in South West Africa (Ethiopia v. South Africa; Liberia v. South Africa). A series of similarities between the two judgments are obvious: They are two of the three cases in the history of the Court in which the judges were equally split and the President had to cast h…
From Public International to International Public Law
This article argues that increasing demands in world public opinion for legitimate and effective international institutions require a paradigm shift in public international law. There is a part of public international law that should be better understood as international public law because it enables and disciplines the pursuit of public interests by international institutions. We consider such activities as exercises of international public auth…
Cracking the Frame? On the Prospects of Change in a World of Struggle
Critical scholarship classically lays bare the assumptions and choices that people make when they argue. By displaying the consequences of those assumptions and choices, it seeks to instil a sense of responsibility for them. Drawing them out into the open, critical scholarship presents them for contestation, unsettles them, and opens them up for change. In his latest book , A World of Struggle, David Kennedy directs our attention to the backgroun…
The Activities of the Leiden Journal of International Law
The Leiden Journal of International Law (LJIL) is many things. In the present editorial we highlight three of its activities – both old and new. First, we look back briefly at the symposium on ‘The Changing Role of Scholarship in International Law’ that we held in March 2015. Second, we present the winner of the second LJIL Prize and draw attention to her contribution. Third, we announce the first LJIL lecture and introduce the inaugural laureate…
The Leiden Journal of International Law at 30
In 2017 the Leiden Journal is celebrating its 30 th anniversary. Since the inception of the journal in 1988, much has changed. This includes not only the structure, lay out, organization and publisher of the journal, but also the general environment in which the journal is published. This editorial's aim is to briefly sketch the journal's life over the past 30 years and to reflect on it
International Law and its Methodology
Questions about methodology are questions of disciplinary identity. It is thus not surprising that they provoke such heated debates. The state of methodological debates is indicative of the condition of a discipline. If those debates advance to the centre of attention within any specific field of scholarly practice, it typically indicates a moment of crisis or – less dramatically – a push for change. In other times of relative stability, question…
What Makes for a Valid Legal Argument
Three intertwined threads run through many recent editorials of the Leiden Journal of International Law (LJIL). They tie together many debates within and beyond the board of editors. The threads are those of the Journal's plural identity, the conversation about methods, and the spicy theme of interdisciplinarity. They are related for obvious reasons. Methodology forms one – not the only and perhaps not the foremost – factor in assessing submissio…
On the Functions of International Courts
This contribution presents international judicial institutions as multifunctional actors against the background of a traditional understanding, which sees just one function: settling disputes. The traditional, one-dimensional understanding eclipses other important functions that many international courts do actually perform in contexts of global governance and it underrates problems in their legitimation. In order to appreciate international adju…
In Whose Name? An Investigation of International Courts' Public Authority and Its Democratic Justification
Court judgments are epitomes of sovereign rule in many grand theoretical sketches. How may such judicial power be justified nowadays? Many domestic courts decide in the name of the people and thus invoke the authority of the democratic sovereign literally at the very beginning of their decisions. International courts, to the contrary, do not say in whose name they speak the law. This void sparks our driving question: how does the power of interna…
Prohibiting Plunder
From Public International to International Public Law
This article argues that increasing demands in world public opinion for legitimate and effective international institutions require a paradigm shift in public international law. There is a part of public international law that should be better understood as international public law because it enables and disciplines the pursuit of public interests by international institutions. We consider such activities as exercises of international public auth…
Possibilities of the Past
The resurfacing interest in the New International Economic Order ( NIEO ) is mainly driven by the ambition of regaining a sense for past possibilities in order to question the present and to open up different futures. This ambition resonates with the core of critical thinking which pushes toward an appreciation of contingencies. What was possible? When approaching this question, however, historical inquiries must not overstate the possibilities o…
In Whose Name? An Investigation of International Courts' Public Authority and Its Democratic Justification
Court judgments are epitomes of sovereign rule in many grand theoretical sketches. How may such judicial power be justified nowadays? Many domestic courts decide in the name of the people and thus invoke the authority of the democratic sovereign literally at the very beginning of their decisions. International courts, to the contrary, do not say in whose name they speak the law. This void sparks our driving question: how does the power of interna…
International Law and its Methodology
Questions about methodology are questions of disciplinary identity. It is thus not surprising that they provoke such heated debates. The state of methodological debates is indicative of the condition of a discipline. If those debates advance to the centre of attention within any specific field of scholarly practice, it typically indicates a moment of crisis or – less dramatically – a push for change. In other times of relative stability, question…
What Makes for a Valid Legal Argument
Three intertwined threads run through many recent editorials of the Leiden Journal of International Law (LJIL). They tie together many debates within and beyond the board of editors. The threads are those of the Journal's plural identity, the conversation about methods, and the spicy theme of interdisciplinarity. They are related for obvious reasons. Methodology forms one – not the only and perhaps not the foremost – factor in assessing submissio…
Against impact
My faculty should still 'look at how British law schools are defining and measuring impact, since they operate at the forefront'.A quick dive into the British 'Research Evaluation Framework' (REF) reveals that impact accounts for 25% of the law schools' 'overall quality profile', next to their 'research output' (60%) and their 'research environment' (15%).It is quite similar for the Netherlands, where 'societal relevance in terms of impact' is al…
The Leiden Journal of International Law at 30
In 2017 the Leiden Journal is celebrating its 30 th anniversary. Since the inception of the journal in 1988, much has changed. This includes not only the structure, lay out, organization and publisher of the journal, but also the general environment in which the journal is published. This editorial's aim is to briefly sketch the journal's life over the past 30 years and to reflect on it
On the Functions of International Courts
This contribution presents international judicial institutions as multifunctional actors against the background of a traditional understanding, which sees just one function: settling disputes. The traditional, one-dimensional understanding eclipses other important functions that many international courts do actually perform in contexts of global governance and it underrates problems in their legitimation. In order to appreciate international adju…
Prohibiting Plunder
Prohibiting Plunder
In Whose Name? An Investigation of International Courts' Public Authority and Its Democratic Justification
Court judgments are epitomes of sovereign rule in many grand theoretical sketches. How may such judicial power be justified nowadays? Many domestic courts decide in the name of the people and thus invoke the authority of the democratic sovereign literally at the very beginning of their decisions. International courts, to the contrary, do not say in whose name they speak the law. This void sparks our driving question: how does the power of interna…
On the Functions of International Courts
This contribution presents international judicial institutions as multifunctional actors against the background of a traditional understanding, which sees just one function: settling disputes. The traditional, one-dimensional understanding eclipses other important functions that many international courts do actually perform in contexts of global governance and it underrates problems in their legitimation. In order to appreciate international adju…
What Makes for a Valid Legal Argument
Three intertwined threads run through many recent editorials of the Leiden Journal of International Law (LJIL). They tie together many debates within and beyond the board of editors. The threads are those of the Journal's plural identity, the conversation about methods, and the spicy theme of interdisciplinarity. They are related for obvious reasons. Methodology forms one – not the only and perhaps not the foremost – factor in assessing submissio…
International Law and its Methodology
Questions about methodology are questions of disciplinary identity. It is thus not surprising that they provoke such heated debates. The state of methodological debates is indicative of the condition of a discipline. If those debates advance to the centre of attention within any specific field of scholarly practice, it typically indicates a moment of crisis or – less dramatically – a push for change. In other times of relative stability, question…
Cracking the Frame? On the Prospects of Change in a World of Struggle
Critical scholarship classically lays bare the assumptions and choices that people make when they argue. By displaying the consequences of those assumptions and choices, it seeks to instil a sense of responsibility for them. Drawing them out into the open, critical scholarship presents them for contestation, unsettles them, and opens them up for change. In his latest book , A World of Struggle, David Kennedy directs our attention to the backgroun…
The Activities of the Leiden Journal of International Law
The Leiden Journal of International Law (LJIL) is many things. In the present editorial we highlight three of its activities – both old and new. First, we look back briefly at the symposium on ‘The Changing Role of Scholarship in International Law’ that we held in March 2015. Second, we present the winner of the second LJIL Prize and draw attention to her contribution. Third, we announce the first LJIL lecture and introduce the inaugural laureate…
The Leiden Journal of International Law at 30
In 2017 the Leiden Journal is celebrating its 30 th anniversary. Since the inception of the journal in 1988, much has changed. This includes not only the structure, lay out, organization and publisher of the journal, but also the general environment in which the journal is published. This editorial's aim is to briefly sketch the journal's life over the past 30 years and to reflect on it
Moving Beyond Interdisciplinary Turf Wars
A summary is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content.
Public Interests in the International Court of Justice—A Comparison Between Nuclear Arms Race (2016) and South West Africa (1966)
In the present essay I compare the 2016 judgment of the International Court of Justice (ICJ) in Nuclear Arms Race (Marshall Islands v. United Kingdom) with the Court's 1966 judgment in South West Africa (Ethiopia v. South Africa; Liberia v. South Africa). A series of similarities between the two judgments are obvious: They are two of the three cases in the history of the Court in which the judges were equally split and the President had to cast h…
From Public International to International Public Law
This article argues that increasing demands in world public opinion for legitimate and effective international institutions require a paradigm shift in public international law. There is a part of public international law that should be better understood as international public law because it enables and disciplines the pursuit of public interests by international institutions. We consider such activities as exercises of international public auth…
Sources in Interpretation Theories
It is generally recognized that interpretations do not take meanings from norms but give meanings to them. In this way, the practice of interpretation contributes to the process of international law-making. The chapter takes as a starting point the understanding of interpretation in international law as an argumentative practice about the meaning of legal norms. It asks which meaning interpreters should give to a norm and how they should justify …
Possibilities of the Past
The resurfacing interest in the New International Economic Order ( NIEO ) is mainly driven by the ambition of regaining a sense for past possibilities in order to question the present and to open up different futures. This ambition resonates with the core of critical thinking which pushes toward an appreciation of contingencies. What was possible? When approaching this question, however, historical inquiries must not overstate the possibilities o…
Narratives of Hunger in International Law
Auf Dem Weg Zu Einer Neuen Aufklärung
Of False Conflicts and Real Challenges
Assessments of the relationship between trade agreements and the climate regime often focus on the potential for normative conflict. Concerns that trade commitments may prevent the adoption of measures to curb climate change, or at least that these are two regimes that “point in different directions,” 1 are often voiced to suggest that taking climate action requires fundamentally modifying, and maybe getting rid of, current trade agreements. In t…
Ingo Venzke, Review of Sigrid Boysen, Die postkoloniale Konstellation
International Investment Protection Made in Germany? On the Domestic and Foreign Policy Dynamics behind the First BITs
The investment protection treaty concluded between Germany and Pakistan in 1959 is generally regarded as a milestone in the development of international investment law. It has entered the collective memory as the first bilateral investment treaty (BIT). In this article, we analyse archival sources to investigate why Germany and Pakistan concluded this agreement at that specific time and what makes this treaty the first of its kind. Through histor…
Against impact
My faculty should still 'look at how British law schools are defining and measuring impact, since they operate at the forefront'.A quick dive into the British 'Research Evaluation Framework' (REF) reveals that impact accounts for 25% of the law schools' 'overall quality profile', next to their 'research output' (60%) and their 'research environment' (15%).It is quite similar for the Netherlands, where 'societal relevance in terms of impact' is al…
The Pre-Removal Detention of Immigrants
The EU Return Directive demands that immigrant detention be as short as possible, but, by logical implication, this also means that detention can be as long as necessary. What concerns the maximum length of detention, the Return Directive is remarkably generous: Immigrants can be detained for a period of up to eighteen months—a deprivation of liberty that is otherwise justified only as punishment for serious crimes. The practice of such long-term…
Addressing issues and concerns raised by the publication of the ‘Gaza Marine article’
Political Models for Developing the Gaza Marine Gas Field' (the 'Gaza Marine article').We accept that much of the criticism is valid, and necessary, especially in light of the horrific, dehumanizing violence in Gaza.Even as we write this editorial, the World Health Organization is reporting that two million people are starving in Gaza. 1 This follows the relentless Israeli attack that had already, by January 2024, killed an estimated 25,700 Pales…
Going Open Access
Political science (18 works) · Law (12 works) · Sociology (12 works) · International Law and Human Rights (11 works) · Law (10 works) · International Arbitration and Investment Law (7 works) · International law (6 works) · Global Peace and Security Dynamics (5 works) · Philosophy (5 works) · Computer Science (4 works)