Tor Krever
torkrever.bsky.social
Tor Krever
@torkrever.bsky.social
Writer and legal academic. International law, critical and Marxist legal theory.
Closing out the issue is the Medellín Group's manifesto on transnational value chains and international law, setting out a research agenda that treats GVCs as amorphous and transnational legal creatures.

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Medellín manifesto on transnational value chains and international law
Abstract. Global Value Chains (GVCs) have been heralded as the ‘new world of trade’, yet they branch far beyond what has traditionally been considered ‘tra
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June 24, 2025 at 10:14 AM
Sasha Crawford-Holland, @patrickbriansmith.bsky.social, and Andrew Williams look at open-source investigation and propose tactics to counter epistemic injustice aimed at fostering pluralistic, decentralised, and solidarity-based OSI practices.

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Law’s capture of human rights focused open-source investigation
Abstract. With new protocols emerging to regulate the field of open-source investigation, this article critiques their widespread deference to the requirem
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June 24, 2025 at 10:14 AM
Security Council Resolutions, Wouter Werner argues, are drafted like autobiographical stories. Comparing them with the plays of Samuel Beckett, he examines the rules of genre and tradition and how the Council presents itself to its readers.

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Security Council Resolutions as autobiographical texts
Abstract. Security Council Resolutions are drafted like autobiographical stories. They are authored and narrated by the Council and all revolve around the
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June 24, 2025 at 10:14 AM
Next, Gavin Sullivan explores the challenges security infrastructures pose by following the hash-sharing database of the Global Internet Forum to Counter Terrorism and suggests new possibilities for the study of global algorithmic infrastructures in action.

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Algorithmic governance of ‘terrorism’ and ‘violent extremism’ online
Abstract. Global security risks are increasingly countered through complex data infrastructures involving forms of algorithmic governance, automated decisi
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June 24, 2025 at 10:14 AM
Using EH Carr’s work as a lens, @ingovenzke.bsky.social delves into the dissonances between aims and inaction in the climate regime and repositions international law as a mobilising force in transnational climate movements.

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Carr and the climate: solidarity and sacrifice in international law
Abstract. The article delves into the dissonances between aims and inaction in the climate regime, using Edward Hallett Carr’s work as a lens. Beyond the h
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June 24, 2025 at 10:14 AM
Focusing on the rubber boats used by irregular migrants on the Mediterranean Sea, Tanja Aalberts uses the heuristic of transnational legal encounters to investigate the enactment of law as a concrete event within a complex transnational force field.
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Rubber boats: transnational legal encounters in the Mediterranean
Abstract. This article proposes the heuristic of transnational legal encounters to investigate the enactment of law as a concrete event between people, rul
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June 24, 2025 at 10:14 AM
Against the erasure of this tradition, I call for a recovery of silenced histories of radicalism and anti-imperial thought and of a tradition that still offers resources for an emancipatory politics grounded in a critique of international law, imperialism and global capitalism.
May 29, 2025 at 11:23 AM
I argue that a Marxist theory of imperialism was an important influence on anti-colonial political thought, while also shaping radical Third World lawyers’ attitudes towards the relationship between international law and imperialism and the uses and limits of the former.
May 29, 2025 at 11:23 AM
Despite growing interest in the international legal history of decolonisation, significant elisions remain. Through a reading of recent engagements with that history, I argue that they contribute to an erasure of the Marxist tradition in the history of the Third World movement.
May 29, 2025 at 11:23 AM
Closing the symposium, @afolkers.bsky.social and Nadine Marquardt trace the emergence of ‘the planetary’ and ‘responsibility’ and argue that different ways in which the planet presents itself as a problem also change the meaning of responsibility.

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Planetary response-inability: Gaia, the Anthropocene, and the world without us
Abstract. This article traces the emergence of ‘the planetary’ and ‘responsibility’ and argues that different ways in which the planet presents itself as a
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March 19, 2025 at 7:59 PM
Andrew Lang offers a reading of ‘market-based sustainability governance’ as a reflexive governance form, drawing particular inspiration from the work of Anna Tsing and Donna Haraway.

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Performances of responsibility: market-based sustainability governance and the ‘responsibility economy’
Abstract. This article offers a reading of ‘market-based sustainability governance’ as a reflexive governance form, which works in part by establishing the
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March 19, 2025 at 7:59 PM
In his article, @avastmachine.bsky.social explores failures and weaknesses of governance modes, arguing that the most effective climate ‘policy’ is infrastructural change.

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Is climate change ungovernable?
Abstract. Climate governance spans multiple levels of socio-political organisation, from global institutions to local governments and non-governmental enti
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March 19, 2025 at 7:59 PM
Reading the public statements of governments and political leaders, Thomas Scheffer reconstructs the emergence of climate policy, climate law, and a global climate regime, as well as the multiple struggles and inevitable gaps along the way.

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Responding before responseability: the delayed realisation of climate change as discrepant discourse formation
Abstract. This article situates public statements by governments and political leaders in a contingent process of building the capacity to respond to rapid
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March 19, 2025 at 7:59 PM
In her article, @naomioreskes.bsky.social looks at obstacles to climate action and in particular political power, anchoring effects and futuristic framing, and ‘techno-fideism’, an unreasonable faith in technology to solve social and political problems.

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Power, futuristic framings, and the problem of techno-fideism or How climate change breaks the promise of progress
Abstract. Previous work has addressed industry disinformation in blocking climate action. This paper focuses on three additional matters. The first is poli
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March 19, 2025 at 7:59 PM
Hans-Jörg Rheinberger's essay is an homage to the late Michel Serres, focusing on his book The Natural Contract: 'Serres was a pioneer of the Anthropocene before the term had come into use.'

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Thinking about a Natural Contract: with Michel Serres (1930–2019)
In the summer of 2019, the French mariner, philosopher and historian of science Michel Serres passed away. This essay is an homage to a great thinker and h
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March 19, 2025 at 7:59 PM
Alain Pottage introduces the symposium, which emerges from a conference organised with @stephenlse.bsky.social in 2021

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The responsibility function: symposium introduction
Abstract. This article introduces a symposium with contributions from Hans-Jörg Rheinberger, Naomi Oreskes, Thomas Scheffer, Andreas Folkers and Nadine Mar
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March 19, 2025 at 7:59 PM