Thomas Skouteris
Biographic Data
| ID | 6547811 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Thomas Skouteris |
| GIVEN NAMES | Thomas |
| FAMILY NAME | Skouteris |
| SIGNATURE | SKOUTERIS T |
| AFFILIATIONS | American University in Cairo |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 7 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 10 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1997 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Between Symbol and Structure
There are worlds we name, and worlds we summon into being. The Arab World has long inhabited both roles—invoked in international law as geopolitical reality, yet shaped by repetition, signification, and remembered alignments. It appears over the centuries not as a subject with agency, but as a revenant: referenced for its solidarity and unity, yet rarely allowed either coherence or consequence. What holds the “Arab World” together in internationa…
Fin de siècle international law
The New Histories of International Criminal Law
Seventy years after Nuremberg and Tokyo, and twenty years after the Rome Conference, international criminal law seems to have developed a ‘Whig’ historiography of its own. This historiography at times creates a mythological life of past law and its institutions and actors, and on which—in the absence of a glorious present to laud—hopes for a shiny new future are built. This volume is boldly calling for a retrial of this historiographical traditio…
New Histories of International Criminal Law
The language of international criminal law has considerable traction in global politics, and much of its legitimacy is embedded in apparently 'axiomatic' historical truths. This innovative edited collection brings together some of the world's leading international lawyers with a very clear mandate in mind: to re-evaluate ('retry') the dominant historiographical tradition in the field of international criminal law.0Carefully curated, and with cont…
The Idea of Progress
This chapter discusses the entwinement of the idea of progress with the theory of international law. Because of the topic’s extensive scope, the chapter limits itself to two arguments. The first is that the impact of the idea of progress in international law should be measured not only against the traction of paradigmatic progress narratives; but also against the pervasiveness of humdrum, prosaic varieties of progress talk. The second point of th…
International Legal Histories of the Ottoman Empire
The League of Nations and the Construction of the Periphery Introduction
Since 2006, the Leiden Journal of International Law (LJIL) has been dedicating a series of special issues of its Articles section to the theme ‘International Law and the Periphery’. This issue marks the fourth in this series
The Vocabulary of Progress in Interwar International Law
The intellectual portrait of Stelios Seferiades sketched out in this article performs a dual function. While paying tribute to the work of a neglected, but fascinating, scholar, it serves as a heuristic device which allows us to examine the 'vocabulary of progress' in international law -the discursive strategies used in legal argument to legitimize the transformation of the discipline. Crucial to the construction of such a vocabulary of progress …
Change of Guard
Dr René Lefeber stayed at the helm of the Leiden Journal of International Law as its Editor-in-Chief for more than four important years (1996–2000), marked by innovation and change in practically every aspect of the Journal . Barely two years after a profound re-organization, the Journal's volume was doubled with three issues per year in 1997, and four issues in 1998. Meanwhile, the number of pages, the quality, and the diversity of published mat…
Under Rhodes' Eyes
The Spring Conference of the British Branch of the International Law Association exemplified to the authors some of the ways in which the ‘old’ encounters the ‘new’ in contemporary international law. Followed by a selective Bibliography of new-stream international legal writing, this Editorial tries to unravel the ‘interested distance’ maintained by the mainstream towards new trends in international legal scholarship
Fin de Nail
Intellectual clashes over the nature of international law have been raging throughout the traceable history of the discipline. Naturalists, positivists, idealists, pragmatists, formalists, realists, and so forth, have striven to put forward and defend credible paradigms of international legal order. The common characteristic of each new wave of criticism has been its unsettling disposition. It arrived stridently with questions and doubts, often s…
Fin de Nail
Intellectual clashes over the nature of international law have been raging throughout the traceable history of the discipline. Naturalists, positivists, idealists, pragmatists, formalists, realists, and so forth, have striven to put forward and defend credible paradigms of international legal order. The common characteristic of each new wave of criticism has been its unsettling disposition. It arrived stridently with questions and doubts, often s…
The Vocabulary of Progress in Interwar International Law
The intellectual portrait of Stelios Seferiades sketched out in this article performs a dual function. While paying tribute to the work of a neglected, but fascinating, scholar, it serves as a heuristic device which allows us to examine the 'vocabulary of progress' in international law -the discursive strategies used in legal argument to legitimize the transformation of the discipline. Crucial to the construction of such a vocabulary of progress …
International Legal Histories of the Ottoman Empire
The League of Nations and the Construction of the Periphery Introduction
Since 2006, the Leiden Journal of International Law (LJIL) has been dedicating a series of special issues of its Articles section to the theme ‘International Law and the Periphery’. This issue marks the fourth in this series
Fin de Nail
Intellectual clashes over the nature of international law have been raging throughout the traceable history of the discipline. Naturalists, positivists, idealists, pragmatists, formalists, realists, and so forth, have striven to put forward and defend credible paradigms of international legal order. The common characteristic of each new wave of criticism has been its unsettling disposition. It arrived stridently with questions and doubts, often s…
Under Rhodes' Eyes
The Spring Conference of the British Branch of the International Law Association exemplified to the authors some of the ways in which the ‘old’ encounters the ‘new’ in contemporary international law. Followed by a selective Bibliography of new-stream international legal writing, this Editorial tries to unravel the ‘interested distance’ maintained by the mainstream towards new trends in international legal scholarship
Change of Guard
Dr René Lefeber stayed at the helm of the Leiden Journal of International Law as its Editor-in-Chief for more than four important years (1996–2000), marked by innovation and change in practically every aspect of the Journal . Barely two years after a profound re-organization, the Journal's volume was doubled with three issues per year in 1997, and four issues in 1998. Meanwhile, the number of pages, the quality, and the diversity of published mat…
The Vocabulary of Progress in Interwar International Law
The intellectual portrait of Stelios Seferiades sketched out in this article performs a dual function. While paying tribute to the work of a neglected, but fascinating, scholar, it serves as a heuristic device which allows us to examine the 'vocabulary of progress' in international law -the discursive strategies used in legal argument to legitimize the transformation of the discipline. Crucial to the construction of such a vocabulary of progress …
The League of Nations and the Construction of the Periphery Introduction
Since 2006, the Leiden Journal of International Law (LJIL) has been dedicating a series of special issues of its Articles section to the theme ‘International Law and the Periphery’. This issue marks the fourth in this series
International Legal Histories of the Ottoman Empire
The Idea of Progress
This chapter discusses the entwinement of the idea of progress with the theory of international law. Because of the topic’s extensive scope, the chapter limits itself to two arguments. The first is that the impact of the idea of progress in international law should be measured not only against the traction of paradigmatic progress narratives; but also against the pervasiveness of humdrum, prosaic varieties of progress talk. The second point of th…
The New Histories of International Criminal Law
Seventy years after Nuremberg and Tokyo, and twenty years after the Rome Conference, international criminal law seems to have developed a ‘Whig’ historiography of its own. This historiography at times creates a mythological life of past law and its institutions and actors, and on which—in the absence of a glorious present to laud—hopes for a shiny new future are built. This volume is boldly calling for a retrial of this historiographical traditio…
New Histories of International Criminal Law
The language of international criminal law has considerable traction in global politics, and much of its legitimacy is embedded in apparently 'axiomatic' historical truths. This innovative edited collection brings together some of the world's leading international lawyers with a very clear mandate in mind: to re-evaluate ('retry') the dominant historiographical tradition in the field of international criminal law.0Carefully curated, and with cont…
Between Symbol and Structure
There are worlds we name, and worlds we summon into being. The Arab World has long inhabited both roles—invoked in international law as geopolitical reality, yet shaped by repetition, signification, and remembered alignments. It appears over the centuries not as a subject with agency, but as a revenant: referenced for its solidarity and unity, yet rarely allowed either coherence or consequence. What holds the “Arab World” together in internationa…
Fin de siècle international law
Political science (8 works) · International Law and Human Rights (7 works) · Law (6 works) · Law (6 works) · Sociology (6 works) · International law (4 works) · Historical and Contemporary Political Dynamics (3 works) · History (3 works) · History (3 works) · International Law and Aviation (3 works)