Anne Orford
Biographic Data
| ID | 1354640 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Anne Orford |
| GIVEN NAMES | Anne |
| FAMILY NAME | Orford |
| SIGNATURE | ORFORD A |
| AFFILIATIONS | The University of Melbourne |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2449-4001 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 24 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 62 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 23 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1994 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
The Role of International Lawyers in a Changing (Physical and Political) Climate
International law is undergoing a period of transformation in the context of a rapidly changing climate and the new geopolitical situation to which it is giving rise. Many international lawyers view the current era of exit from or challenge to existing international laws and institutions as one of crisis in the international legal order. In contrast, this chapter suggests that international lawyers should not automatically position ourselves in o…
Reparations, Climate Change, and the Background Rules of International Law
The debate over whether, when, and by whom reparations should be paid for climate-related loss and damage has been central to the struggle over the role of international law in responding to climate change. The push for climate reparations is an attempt to have international law treat the harm caused by climate change with the same gravity as issues such as the damage caused by war, gross violations of human rights, or injury to the economic inte…
How to Think About the Battle for the State at the WTO
International trade law has long been the site of a battle over who or what the state can represent. Today, that battle is taking a new form. While for decades the WTO was considered a centerpiece of the international economic order, the policy landscape is now awash with claims that the US should abandon WTO disciplines, critiques of the WTO as the vehicle for a coherent neoliberalism, and concerns about the implications of trade law for domesti…
What is the History of International Law For
Civil Wars
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The Passions of Protection
Theorizing Free Trade
This chapter re-examines the history of free trade and its relationship to international law. It locates contemporary trade agreements within a larger story about the relation between the state, the market, and the social; explores why it is useful to place current trade agreements within a longer historical trajectory; offers a brief narrative of how the concept of free trade has moved across a two-hundred-year period since the late eighteenth c…
The Oxford Handbook of the Theory of International Law
This Oxford handbook explores key questions and debates in international legal theory, offering new intellectual histories for the discipline, and providing fresh interpretations of significant historical figures, texts, and theoretical approaches.
Scientific Reason and the Discipline of International Law
International law emerged as a professional academic specialization in a 19th century European context of wide-ranging public debates about the nature and cultural significance of science. Ever since, the status of international law as an academic discipline has been intimately connected with the capacity of international lawyers to demonstrate that our discipline is properly scientific. Yet the ideals of science upon which international lawyers …
On the Annual Junior Faculty Forum for International Law
The papers presented in the following colloquium for the European Journal of International Law are the result of the inaugural Annual Junior Faculty Forum for International Law, held at NYU School of Law in May 2012. The second Forum will be held at the University of Nottingham this year, and plans are afoot for the third Forum head the University of Melbourne in May 2014. Our Forum is inspired by the Yale - Stanford Junior Faculty Forum establis…
Moral Internationalism and the Responsibility to Protect
The post-Cold War era has seen the increased significance of moral argument as a force in international relations. Arguments such as those developed in Michael Walzer’s Just and Unjust Wars have shaped debates about the relative weights to be given to non-intervention and human rights as core values of international law over the past three decades. This article analyses the form of moral internationalism that is exemplified by Walzer’s work, and …
In Praise of Description
In his Philosophical Investigations , Ludwig Wittgenstein declared: ‘We must do away with all explanation, and description alone must take its place.’ Michel Foucault in turn repeatedly referred to his method of study as description, arguing that the role of philosophy is not to reveal what is hidden, but rather to make us see what is seen. This essay suggests why the turn to description as a mode of legal writing might be a productive move at th…
E urope Reconstructed
International Authority and the Responsibility to Protect
The idea that states and the international community have a responsibility to protect populations at risk has framed internationalist debates about conflict prevention, humanitarian aid, peacekeeping and territorial administration since 2001. This book situates the responsibility to protect concept in a broad historical and jurisprudential context, demonstrating that the appeal to protection as the basis for de facto authority has emerged at time…
From Promise to Practice? The Legal Significance of the Responsibility to Protect Concept
According to UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon, the challenge facing the international community is to transform the responsibility to protect concept from 'promise to practice' or from 'words into deeds'. This article argues that the legal significance of the concept lies not in its capacity to transform promise into practice, but rather in its capacity to do the reverse – that is, to transform practice into promise, or deeds into words. The resp…
Ritual, Mediation and the International Laws of the South
This article seeks to answer one of the questions posed by the editors of this special issue: how is it possible to live with honour according to the law one represents in the legal spaces of the South? The article explores two related issues raised for me as an Australian Professor of International Law by this question. First, what might it mean for the tradition of international law that emerged alongside the modern European state system to rec…
Beyond Harmonization
This article engages with the current internationalist debate about the ‘linkage’ or the proper relationship of trade and human rights law. The debate, as played out in activist commentary, scholarly journals and the reports of international institutions, is largely concerned with the substantive obligations or normative commitments involved in the two fields. This article seeks to address instead the forms of law (the patterns of relations and s…
The Destiny of International Law
In much international legal scholarship, Iraq stands for what lies beyond the UN Charter – a world in which international institutions have proved unable to challenge the pragmatists of the new American empire, or one in which international institutions must be remade to suit the interests of the only state capable of acting as the sovereign enforcer of the law. Yet this sense of a crisis of legal authority is not novel for international law – ra…
Reading Humanitarian Intervention
During the 1990s, humanitarian intervention seemed to promise a world in which democracy, self-determination and human rights would be privileged over national interests or imperial ambitions. Orford provides critical readings of the narratives that accompanied such interventions and shaped legal justifications for the use of force by the international community. Through a close reading of legal texts and institutional practice, she argues that a…
The Subject of Globalization
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Muscular humanitarianism
As a result of the decision by NATO to use force in response to the Kosovo crisis, issues about the legality and morality of humanitarian intervention have again begun to dominate the international legal agenda. This article explores the ways in which international legal texts about intervention operate at the ideological or representational level. It draws on feminist and post-colonial theories of subjectivity and identification to suggest that …
Grand Narratives and The Law School Curriculum
Jennifer Clarke and Anne Orford were invited by the Editorial Board of the Australian Feminist Law Journal to contribute to the Special Issue of the Journal a discussion of the constraints which the traditions of law teaching might place upon what it was possible to include in a course on justice, indigenous peoples and relationships to land in Australia. Both were known to Board members as innovative teachers and as scholars interested in the po…
TheUses ofSovereignty in theNewImperialOrder
(1996). The Uses of Sovereignty in the New Imperial Order. Australian Feminist Law Journal: Vol. 6, No. 1, pp. 63-86
Liberty, Equality, Pornography
(1994). Liberty, Equality, Pornography: The Bodies of Women and Human Rights Discourse. Australian Feminist Law Journal: Vol. 3, No. 1, pp. 72-102
Muscular humanitarianism
As a result of the decision by NATO to use force in response to the Kosovo crisis, issues about the legality and morality of humanitarian intervention have again begun to dominate the international legal agenda. This article explores the ways in which international legal texts about intervention operate at the ideological or representational level. It draws on feminist and post-colonial theories of subjectivity and identification to suggest that …
In Praise of Description
In his Philosophical Investigations , Ludwig Wittgenstein declared: ‘We must do away with all explanation, and description alone must take its place.’ Michel Foucault in turn repeatedly referred to his method of study as description, arguing that the role of philosophy is not to reveal what is hidden, but rather to make us see what is seen. This essay suggests why the turn to description as a mode of legal writing might be a productive move at th…
Moral Internationalism and the Responsibility to Protect
The post-Cold War era has seen the increased significance of moral argument as a force in international relations. Arguments such as those developed in Michael Walzer’s Just and Unjust Wars have shaped debates about the relative weights to be given to non-intervention and human rights as core values of international law over the past three decades. This article analyses the form of moral internationalism that is exemplified by Walzer’s work, and …
Beyond Harmonization
This article engages with the current internationalist debate about the ‘linkage’ or the proper relationship of trade and human rights law. The debate, as played out in activist commentary, scholarly journals and the reports of international institutions, is largely concerned with the substantive obligations or normative commitments involved in the two fields. This article seeks to address instead the forms of law (the patterns of relations and s…
The Destiny of International Law
In much international legal scholarship, Iraq stands for what lies beyond the UN Charter – a world in which international institutions have proved unable to challenge the pragmatists of the new American empire, or one in which international institutions must be remade to suit the interests of the only state capable of acting as the sovereign enforcer of the law. Yet this sense of a crisis of legal authority is not novel for international law – ra…
Scientific Reason and the Discipline of International Law
International law emerged as a professional academic specialization in a 19th century European context of wide-ranging public debates about the nature and cultural significance of science. Ever since, the status of international law as an academic discipline has been intimately connected with the capacity of international lawyers to demonstrate that our discipline is properly scientific. Yet the ideals of science upon which international lawyers …
E urope Reconstructed
From Promise to Practice? The Legal Significance of the Responsibility to Protect Concept
According to UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon, the challenge facing the international community is to transform the responsibility to protect concept from 'promise to practice' or from 'words into deeds'. This article argues that the legal significance of the concept lies not in its capacity to transform promise into practice, but rather in its capacity to do the reverse – that is, to transform practice into promise, or deeds into words. The resp…
TheUses ofSovereignty in theNewImperialOrder
(1996). The Uses of Sovereignty in the New Imperial Order. Australian Feminist Law Journal: Vol. 6, No. 1, pp. 63-86
Liberty, Equality, Pornography
(1994). Liberty, Equality, Pornography: The Bodies of Women and Human Rights Discourse. Australian Feminist Law Journal: Vol. 3, No. 1, pp. 72-102
Liberty, Equality, Pornography
(1994). Liberty, Equality, Pornography: The Bodies of Women and Human Rights Discourse. Australian Feminist Law Journal: Vol. 3, No. 1, pp. 72-102
TheUses ofSovereignty in theNewImperialOrder
(1996). The Uses of Sovereignty in the New Imperial Order. Australian Feminist Law Journal: Vol. 6, No. 1, pp. 63-86
Grand Narratives and The Law School Curriculum
Jennifer Clarke and Anne Orford were invited by the Editorial Board of the Australian Feminist Law Journal to contribute to the Special Issue of the Journal a discussion of the constraints which the traditions of law teaching might place upon what it was possible to include in a course on justice, indigenous peoples and relationships to land in Australia. Both were known to Board members as innovative teachers and as scholars interested in the po…
Muscular humanitarianism
As a result of the decision by NATO to use force in response to the Kosovo crisis, issues about the legality and morality of humanitarian intervention have again begun to dominate the international legal agenda. This article explores the ways in which international legal texts about intervention operate at the ideological or representational level. It draws on feminist and post-colonial theories of subjectivity and identification to suggest that …
The Subject of Globalization
An abstract 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.
Reading Humanitarian Intervention
During the 1990s, humanitarian intervention seemed to promise a world in which democracy, self-determination and human rights would be privileged over national interests or imperial ambitions. Orford provides critical readings of the narratives that accompanied such interventions and shaped legal justifications for the use of force by the international community. Through a close reading of legal texts and institutional practice, she argues that a…
The Destiny of International Law
In much international legal scholarship, Iraq stands for what lies beyond the UN Charter – a world in which international institutions have proved unable to challenge the pragmatists of the new American empire, or one in which international institutions must be remade to suit the interests of the only state capable of acting as the sovereign enforcer of the law. Yet this sense of a crisis of legal authority is not novel for international law – ra…
Beyond Harmonization
This article engages with the current internationalist debate about the ‘linkage’ or the proper relationship of trade and human rights law. The debate, as played out in activist commentary, scholarly journals and the reports of international institutions, is largely concerned with the substantive obligations or normative commitments involved in the two fields. This article seeks to address instead the forms of law (the patterns of relations and s…
Ritual, Mediation and the International Laws of the South
This article seeks to answer one of the questions posed by the editors of this special issue: how is it possible to live with honour according to the law one represents in the legal spaces of the South? The article explores two related issues raised for me as an Australian Professor of International Law by this question. First, what might it mean for the tradition of international law that emerged alongside the modern European state system to rec…
International Authority and the Responsibility to Protect
The idea that states and the international community have a responsibility to protect populations at risk has framed internationalist debates about conflict prevention, humanitarian aid, peacekeeping and territorial administration since 2001. This book situates the responsibility to protect concept in a broad historical and jurisprudential context, demonstrating that the appeal to protection as the basis for de facto authority has emerged at time…
From Promise to Practice? The Legal Significance of the Responsibility to Protect Concept
According to UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon, the challenge facing the international community is to transform the responsibility to protect concept from 'promise to practice' or from 'words into deeds'. This article argues that the legal significance of the concept lies not in its capacity to transform promise into practice, but rather in its capacity to do the reverse – that is, to transform practice into promise, or deeds into words. The resp…
In Praise of Description
In his Philosophical Investigations , Ludwig Wittgenstein declared: ‘We must do away with all explanation, and description alone must take its place.’ Michel Foucault in turn repeatedly referred to his method of study as description, arguing that the role of philosophy is not to reveal what is hidden, but rather to make us see what is seen. This essay suggests why the turn to description as a mode of legal writing might be a productive move at th…
E urope Reconstructed
On the Annual Junior Faculty Forum for International Law
The papers presented in the following colloquium for the European Journal of International Law are the result of the inaugural Annual Junior Faculty Forum for International Law, held at NYU School of Law in May 2012. The second Forum will be held at the University of Nottingham this year, and plans are afoot for the third Forum head the University of Melbourne in May 2014. Our Forum is inspired by the Yale - Stanford Junior Faculty Forum establis…
Moral Internationalism and the Responsibility to Protect
The post-Cold War era has seen the increased significance of moral argument as a force in international relations. Arguments such as those developed in Michael Walzer’s Just and Unjust Wars have shaped debates about the relative weights to be given to non-intervention and human rights as core values of international law over the past three decades. This article analyses the form of moral internationalism that is exemplified by Walzer’s work, and …
Scientific Reason and the Discipline of International Law
International law emerged as a professional academic specialization in a 19th century European context of wide-ranging public debates about the nature and cultural significance of science. Ever since, the status of international law as an academic discipline has been intimately connected with the capacity of international lawyers to demonstrate that our discipline is properly scientific. Yet the ideals of science upon which international lawyers …
Theorizing Free Trade
This chapter re-examines the history of free trade and its relationship to international law. It locates contemporary trade agreements within a larger story about the relation between the state, the market, and the social; explores why it is useful to place current trade agreements within a longer historical trajectory; offers a brief narrative of how the concept of free trade has moved across a two-hundred-year period since the late eighteenth c…
The Oxford Handbook of the Theory of International Law
This Oxford handbook explores key questions and debates in international legal theory, offering new intellectual histories for the discipline, and providing fresh interpretations of significant historical figures, texts, and theoretical approaches.
The Passions of Protection
Civil Wars
An abstract 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
How to Think About the Battle for the State at the WTO
International trade law has long been the site of a battle over who or what the state can represent. Today, that battle is taking a new form. While for decades the WTO was considered a centerpiece of the international economic order, the policy landscape is now awash with claims that the US should abandon WTO disciplines, critiques of the WTO as the vehicle for a coherent neoliberalism, and concerns about the implications of trade law for domesti…
What is the History of International Law For
Reparations, Climate Change, and the Background Rules of International Law
The debate over whether, when, and by whom reparations should be paid for climate-related loss and damage has been central to the struggle over the role of international law in responding to climate change. The push for climate reparations is an attempt to have international law treat the harm caused by climate change with the same gravity as issues such as the damage caused by war, gross violations of human rights, or injury to the economic inte…
The Role of International Lawyers in a Changing (Physical and Political) Climate
International law is undergoing a period of transformation in the context of a rapidly changing climate and the new geopolitical situation to which it is giving rise. Many international lawyers view the current era of exit from or challenge to existing international laws and institutions as one of crisis in the international legal order. In contrast, this chapter suggests that international lawyers should not automatically position ourselves in o…
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