International Law and Time (eBook)

This book explores the close, complex and consequential - yet to a large extent implicit - relationship between international law and time. There is a conspicuous discrepancy between international law's technical preoccupation with the mechanics of temporal rules and the absence of more foundational considerations of how time - both as an irrepressible physical dimension manifesting in the passage of time, and as a social construct shaped by diverse social and cultural factors - impacts and interacts with international law. Divided into five parts and 21 chapters, this book explores key aspects of the relationship between international law and time and puts the spotlight on time's fundamental significance for international law as a legal order and as a discipline. Pursuing diverse approaches to international law, the authors consider the notion, significance, manifestations, uses and implications of time in international law in a wide range of contexts, and offer insights into the various ways in which international law and international lawyers cope with time, both in terms of constructing narratives and in devising and employing particular legal techniques.

Klara Polackova Van der Ploeg is an Assistant Professor at the University of Nottingham School of Law and an attorney-at-law specializing in international law and international dispute settlement. She completed her PhD, summa cum laude avec les félicitations du jury, at the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies in Geneva and received the 2019 SNIS Award for her research. She was previously an associate with leading law firms in London and Prague and served as a judicial assistant to Judge Sir Christopher Greenwood CMG QC at the International Court of Justice. She is a Member of the Nottingham Centre for International Law and Security, the Human Rights Law Centre and the University of Nottingham Commercial Law Centre.

Luca Pasquet is Assistant Professor in Public International Law at Utrecht University School of Law, and Researcher at the Utrecht Centre for Accountability and Liability Law (UCALL).

León Castellanos-Jankiewicz is Researcher in International Law at the Asser Institute for International and European Law, The Hague. He is also Academic Coordinator of the Netherlands Network for Human Rights Research.