Gerry Simpson
Biographic Data
| ID | 5698191 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Gerry Simpson |
| GIVEN NAMES | Gerry |
| FAMILY NAME | Simpson |
| SIGNATURE | SIMPSON G |
| AFFILIATIONS | London School of Economics and Political Science |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 36 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 12 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1999 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
The Right Wrong Man: John Demjanjuk and the Last Great Nazi War Crimes Trial
Introduction to Symposium on the Trajectories of International Legal Histories: Doing Things Differently There
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Something to do with States
This chapter suggests that the law of sovereignty and statehood tends to be practiced, organized, and theorized around two sets of argument (and a sleight of hand), and that this tendency has produced certain effects on the distribution of political resources in global politics. The first argument is structured around the material and immaterial qualities of statehood, as it maintains that the ‘infinite transition’ discussed by Peter Fitzpatrick …
James Lorimer and the Character of Sovereigns: The Institutes as 21st Century Treatise
In Vienna, Freud is completing his medical degree just as James Lorimer, in Edinburgh, is polishing his Institutes of the Law of Nations. I suppose the overall claim might be that Lorimer’s Institutes represents one sort of unwritten, ‘unwriteable’ textbook for our own time – international law’s uncivilized unconscious speaking to us from the late 19th century. More specifically, and because I am the only Scot writing as part of this symposium, I…
The Cambridge Companion to Human Rights Law
Human rights are considered one of the big ideas of the early twenty-first century. This book presents in an authoritative and readable form the variety of platforms on which human rights law is practiced today, reflecting also on the dynamic inter-relationships that exist between these various levels. The collection has a critical edge. The chapters engage with how human rights law has developed in its various subfields, what (if anything) has b…
The Ethics of the New Liberalism
This article considers three key new liberal texts in order to untangle some of the key propositions of new liberalism. These are Andrew Moravcsik's Taking Preferences Seriously (1997), Anne-Marie Slaughter's A New World Order (2004), and the recent Princeton Project's Forging a World of Liberty under Law (Ikenberry and Slaughter 2006). The first text represents new liberalism's methodological blueprint; it is a persuasive, widely read, and consi…
Revisiting the Tokyo War Crimes Trial
Research Article| November 01 2009 Revisiting the Tokyo War Crimes Trial Gerry Simpson Gerry Simpson The author teaches international law at the London School of Economics and holds a Chair of Law at the University of Melbourne Law School. He is also a research associate at the Centre for Human Rights at the LSE and director of the Global Justice Studio, University of Melbourne. Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Sc…
Great Powers and Outlaw States: Unequal Sovereigns in the International Legal Order
The presence of Great Powers and outlaw states is a central but under-explored feature of international society. In this book, Gerry Simpson describes the ways in which an international legal order based on 'sovereign equality' has accommodated the Great Powers and regulated outlaw states since the beginning of the nineteenth-century. In doing so, the author offers a fresh understanding of sovereignty which he terms juridical sovereignty to show …
We Are Teachers of International Law’
In the general debate prior to the onset of war in Iraq, we made public our view, in a letter to the Guardian newspaper, that the war could be justified neither by reference to earlier UN Security Council resolutions nor by way of the doctrine of self-defence. In this article we reflect on some of the anxieties we experienced both before and after that ‘intervention’ in terms of the vision of international law we might unwillingly promote, and in…
Two Liberalisms
There is much talk in international law about 'liberalism'. The term means many things but is too often taken to mean only one. This essay is intended to act as an historical gloss on some contemporary debates featured elsewhere concerning the meanings of liberalism and the possible consequences of adopting liberal positions in international law. The author aims to accomplish three ends here. First, he distinguishes between two different but fami…
The situation on the international legal theory front: The power of rules and the rule of power
The rejuvenation of international law in the last decade has its source in two developments. On the one hand, 'critical legal scholarship' has infiltrated the discipline and provided it with a new sensibility and self-consciousness. On the other hand, liberal international lawyers have reached out to International Relations scholarship to recast the ways in which rules and power are approached. Meanwhile, the traditional debates about the source …
On the magic mountain: Teaching public international law
In this essay, the author identifies a malaise in the teaching of international law resulting from a fear of being consigned to the academic peripheries. This fear arises from a sense that international lawyers are deemed not sufficiently like 'real' lawyers by some of our colleagues in the law schools and not savvy enough about global realities according to some international relations scholars. The response to these fears sometimes involves a s…
Great Powers and Outlaw States: Unequal Sovereigns in the International Legal Order
The presence of Great Powers and outlaw states is a central but under-explored feature of international society. In this book, Gerry Simpson describes the ways in which an international legal order based on 'sovereign equality' has accommodated the Great Powers and regulated outlaw states since the beginning of the nineteenth-century. In doing so, the author offers a fresh understanding of sovereignty which he terms juridical sovereignty to show …
Two Liberalisms
There is much talk in international law about 'liberalism'. The term means many things but is too often taken to mean only one. This essay is intended to act as an historical gloss on some contemporary debates featured elsewhere concerning the meanings of liberalism and the possible consequences of adopting liberal positions in international law. The author aims to accomplish three ends here. First, he distinguishes between two different but fami…
We Are Teachers of International Law’
In the general debate prior to the onset of war in Iraq, we made public our view, in a letter to the Guardian newspaper, that the war could be justified neither by reference to earlier UN Security Council resolutions nor by way of the doctrine of self-defence. In this article we reflect on some of the anxieties we experienced both before and after that ‘intervention’ in terms of the vision of international law we might unwillingly promote, and in…
On the magic mountain: Teaching public international law
In this essay, the author identifies a malaise in the teaching of international law resulting from a fear of being consigned to the academic peripheries. This fear arises from a sense that international lawyers are deemed not sufficiently like 'real' lawyers by some of our colleagues in the law schools and not savvy enough about global realities according to some international relations scholars. The response to these fears sometimes involves a s…
Revisiting the Tokyo War Crimes Trial
Research Article| November 01 2009 Revisiting the Tokyo War Crimes Trial Gerry Simpson Gerry Simpson The author teaches international law at the London School of Economics and holds a Chair of Law at the University of Melbourne Law School. He is also a research associate at the Centre for Human Rights at the LSE and director of the Global Justice Studio, University of Melbourne. Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Sc…
The situation on the international legal theory front: The power of rules and the rule of power
The rejuvenation of international law in the last decade has its source in two developments. On the one hand, 'critical legal scholarship' has infiltrated the discipline and provided it with a new sensibility and self-consciousness. On the other hand, liberal international lawyers have reached out to International Relations scholarship to recast the ways in which rules and power are approached. Meanwhile, the traditional debates about the source …
On the magic mountain: Teaching public international law
In this essay, the author identifies a malaise in the teaching of international law resulting from a fear of being consigned to the academic peripheries. This fear arises from a sense that international lawyers are deemed not sufficiently like 'real' lawyers by some of our colleagues in the law schools and not savvy enough about global realities according to some international relations scholars. The response to these fears sometimes involves a s…
The situation on the international legal theory front: The power of rules and the rule of power
The rejuvenation of international law in the last decade has its source in two developments. On the one hand, 'critical legal scholarship' has infiltrated the discipline and provided it with a new sensibility and self-consciousness. On the other hand, liberal international lawyers have reached out to International Relations scholarship to recast the ways in which rules and power are approached. Meanwhile, the traditional debates about the source …
Two Liberalisms
There is much talk in international law about 'liberalism'. The term means many things but is too often taken to mean only one. This essay is intended to act as an historical gloss on some contemporary debates featured elsewhere concerning the meanings of liberalism and the possible consequences of adopting liberal positions in international law. The author aims to accomplish three ends here. First, he distinguishes between two different but fami…
Great Powers and Outlaw States: Unequal Sovereigns in the International Legal Order
The presence of Great Powers and outlaw states is a central but under-explored feature of international society. In this book, Gerry Simpson describes the ways in which an international legal order based on 'sovereign equality' has accommodated the Great Powers and regulated outlaw states since the beginning of the nineteenth-century. In doing so, the author offers a fresh understanding of sovereignty which he terms juridical sovereignty to show …
We Are Teachers of International Law’
In the general debate prior to the onset of war in Iraq, we made public our view, in a letter to the Guardian newspaper, that the war could be justified neither by reference to earlier UN Security Council resolutions nor by way of the doctrine of self-defence. In this article we reflect on some of the anxieties we experienced both before and after that ‘intervention’ in terms of the vision of international law we might unwillingly promote, and in…
The Ethics of the New Liberalism
This article considers three key new liberal texts in order to untangle some of the key propositions of new liberalism. These are Andrew Moravcsik's Taking Preferences Seriously (1997), Anne-Marie Slaughter's A New World Order (2004), and the recent Princeton Project's Forging a World of Liberty under Law (Ikenberry and Slaughter 2006). The first text represents new liberalism's methodological blueprint; it is a persuasive, widely read, and consi…
Revisiting the Tokyo War Crimes Trial
Research Article| November 01 2009 Revisiting the Tokyo War Crimes Trial Gerry Simpson Gerry Simpson The author teaches international law at the London School of Economics and holds a Chair of Law at the University of Melbourne Law School. He is also a research associate at the Centre for Human Rights at the LSE and director of the Global Justice Studio, University of Melbourne. Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Sc…
The Cambridge Companion to Human Rights Law
Human rights are considered one of the big ideas of the early twenty-first century. This book presents in an authoritative and readable form the variety of platforms on which human rights law is practiced today, reflecting also on the dynamic inter-relationships that exist between these various levels. The collection has a critical edge. The chapters engage with how human rights law has developed in its various subfields, what (if anything) has b…
Something to do with States
This chapter suggests that the law of sovereignty and statehood tends to be practiced, organized, and theorized around two sets of argument (and a sleight of hand), and that this tendency has produced certain effects on the distribution of political resources in global politics. The first argument is structured around the material and immaterial qualities of statehood, as it maintains that the ‘infinite transition’ discussed by Peter Fitzpatrick …
James Lorimer and the Character of Sovereigns: The Institutes as 21st Century Treatise
In Vienna, Freud is completing his medical degree just as James Lorimer, in Edinburgh, is polishing his Institutes of the Law of Nations. I suppose the overall claim might be that Lorimer’s Institutes represents one sort of unwritten, ‘unwriteable’ textbook for our own time – international law’s uncivilized unconscious speaking to us from the late 19th century. More specifically, and because I am the only Scot writing as part of this symposium, I…
Introduction to Symposium on the Trajectories of International Legal Histories: Doing Things Differently There
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
The Right Wrong Man: John Demjanjuk and the Last Great Nazi War Crimes Trial
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