Virgečilgehus

Books:

• Remoteness Reconsidered: The Atacama Desert and International Law. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2021.
• Whiggish International Law: Elihu Root, the Monroe Doctrine, and International Law in the Americas. Leiden and Boston: Brill/Nijhoff, 2019.
• Sovereignty and Territorial Temptation: The Grotian Tendency. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2017. Broken Chain of Being: James Brown Scott and the Origins of Modern International Law. The Hague, London, Boston: Kluwer Law International, 1998.
•  Equity and International Law: A Legal Realist Approach to International Decisionmaking. Irvington-on-Hudson, N.Y.: Transnational Publishers, 1993.
• Co-editor, II Temas de derecho internacional 1996. Caracas, Venezuela: García-Diffendini &Asociados, 1996.
• Assistant co-editor, Towards Nuclear Disarmament and Global Security. Boulder: Westview Press, 1984.

 

Journal Articles (available at: http://ssrn.com/author=2503793): 

 "Arctic Anadromy and Congested Regime Governance." 52(3) Environmental Law Reporter 10193-10210 (2022). http://ssrn.com/abstract=3979519.

 "Water Security and Hydro-Egoism: Endogenous Hegemony and the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam." __ Indiana International &Comparative Law Review __-__ (2022). http://ssrn.com/abstract=3921624.

"Interstitial Space and the High Himalayan Dispute between China and India." 62(2) Harvard International Law Journal, 429-468 (2021). 40 pages. http://ssrn.com/abstract=3759916.

 

"The Blind Eye: Jus Soli and the "Pretended" Treaty of New Echota." 9(2) American Indian Law Journal, 402-433 (2021). 31 pages. http://ssrn.com/abstract=3818266.

 

"The Widening Gyre: Legal Formalism and International Law's Sense of Place," 11(1) Notre Dame Journal of International and Comparative Law, 107-137 (2021). 30 pages. http://ssrn.com/abstract=3615091.

 

"Blood, Water, and the Indus Waters Treaty." 29(2) Minnesota Journal of International Law,103-158 (2020). 56 pages. http://ssrn.com/abstract=3510327.

 

"Game of Thrones: The Qatar Crisis and Forced Expulsion on the Arabian Peninsula." 7(1) Penn State Journal of Law & International Affairs,1-52 (2019). 52 pages. http://ssrn.com/abstract=3262649.

 

"Asia-Pacific Interests in the Emerging Arctic." 9(1) Yonsei Law Journal, 1-21 (2018). 21 pages. http://ssrn.com/abstract=3209391.

 

"The Nomos of Climate Change and the Sociological Refugee in a Sinking Century." 50(3) George Washington International Law Review, 101-138 (2018). 38 pages. http://ssrn.com/abstract=3055415.

 

"Hauntings, Hegemony, and the Threatened African Exodus from the International Criminal Court." 40(2) Human Rights Quarterly, 369-405 (2018). 37 pages. http://ssrn.com/abstract=2969130; http://muse.jhu.edu/article/694701/pdf.

 

"The Gulf of Fonseca and International Law: Condominium or Imperial Anticolonialism?" 3(1) Law Gentium: Journal of International Legal History, 115-153 (2018). 39 pages. https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3055424.

 

"The Migingo Island Dispute between Uganda and Kenya." 42(2) Brooklyn Journal of International Law, 659-693 (2017). 34 pages. http://ssrn.com/abstract=2819216.

 

"Norway's Imperiled Sovereignty Claim over Svalbard's Adjacent Waters." 18(6) German Law Journal, 1497-1530 (2017). 34 pages. http://ssrn.com/abstract=3072570.

 

"Treaty of Tordesillas Syndrome: Sovereignty ad Absurdum and the South China Sea Arbitration." 50(2) Cornell International Law Journal, 232-283 (2017). 52 pages. http://ssrn.com/abstract=2896098.

 

"Nagorno-Karabakh and the Minsk Group: The Imperfect Appeal of Soft Law in an Overlap Neighborhood." 52(1) Texas International Law Journal, 45-70 (2017). 26 pages. http://ssrn.com/abstract=2954185.

 

"The Transboundary Dispute over the Waters of the Silala/Siloli: Legal Vandalism and Goffmanian Metaphor." 53(1) Stanford Journal of International Law, 55-87 (2017). 33 pages. http://ssrn.com/abstract=2951271.

 

"A Case Ill Suited for Judgment: Constructing 'A Sovereign Access to the Sea' in the Atacama Desert." 48(2) Inter-American Law Review, 28-86 (2017). 58 pages. http://ssrn.com/abstract=2764459.

 

"The International Community, South Sudan, and the Responsibility to Protect." 49(1) New York University Journal of International Law & Politics, 129-180 (2016). 51 pages. http://ssrn.com/abstract=2764600.

 

"'A Unique International Problem': The Svalbard Treaty, Equal Enjoyment, and Terra Nullius: Lessons of Territorial Temptation from History." 15(1) Washington University Global Studies Law Review, 93-136 (2016). 44 pages. https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2764452.

 

“Impaled on Morton’s Fork: Kosovo, Crimea and the Sui Generis Circumstance.”  30(3) Emory International Law Review, 353-390 (2016). 38 pages.  http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2735171.

 

“Ex Injuria Jus Non Oritur, Ex Factis Jus Oritur and the Elusive Search for Equilibrium after Ukraine,” 24(1) Tulane Journal of International & Comparative Law, 143-173 (2015). 30 pages.  http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2723675.

 

“The Club Within the Club: The Challenge of a Soft Law Framework in a Global Arctic Context,” 5(1) Polar Journal, 8-34 (2015). 26 pages. http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2723644.

 

“Jura Novit Curia? Condominium in the Gulf of Fonseca and the ‘Local Illusion’ of a Pluri-State Bay,” 37(3) Houston Journal of International Law, 793-840 (2015). 48 pages. http://ssrn.com/abstract=2723676.

 

“A Particular Kind of Dominium: The Grotian ‘Tendency’ and the Global Commons in a Time of High Arctic Change,” 11(1) University of Toronto Journal of International Law & International Relations, 1-60 (2015). 60 pages.        http://ssrn.com/abstract=2723678.

 

“Russian Arctic Straits and the Temptation of Uti Possidetis.” 24(1) Transnational Law & Contemporary Problems, 19-68 (2014). 49 pages. http://ssrn.com/abstract=2723627.

 

“The Responsibility to Protect and the Plenitudinal Mindset of International Humanitarian Law,” 5(1-2) Journal of International Humanitarian Legal Studies, 352-395 (2014). 44 pages. http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2723655.

 

“The Northern Sea Route and the Seaward Extension of Uti Possidetis (Juris). 83(4) Nordic Journal of International Law,” 476-508 (2014). 32 pages.  http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2737420.

 

Guest Editor, 17(1) Transnational Law & Contemporary Problems. War Crimes Symposium. University of Iowa College of Law (2008). 305 pages.  http://heinonline.org/HOL/Page?handle=hein.journals/tlcp17&div=3&g_sent=1&collection=journals.

           

“Introduction: Qui Tolis Pecatta Mundi? Lebanon’s Hybrid Tribunal.” 17(1) Transnational Law & Contemporary Problems, 1-7 (2008). 7 pages. https://heinonline.org/HOL/Page?public=true&handle=hein.journals/tlcp17&div=4&start_page=1&collection=journals&set_as_cursor=21&men_tab=srchresults.

 

“Jus ad Bellum in the Shadow of the 20th Century,” 15(1) New York Law School Journal of International & Comparative Law, 49-82 (1994). 33 pages. http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2723664. 

 

Co-author, “Arms Control Treaties: Review and Revision,” 26(3) Bulletin of the International Atomic Energy Agency, 37-40 (1984). 4 pages.  http://ssrn.com/abstract=3615127.

 

Book Chapters/Policy Publications:

 

“Presentacion.” In Paula Younes, La Negociación como medio de solución de controversias den el derecho internacional: El caso de Bolivia c. Chile ante la Corte Internacional de Justicia 9-10. Bogotá D.C., Colombia: Grupo Editorial Ibáñez, 2022. 

 

“Sclerotic Soft Law: Understanding the Role of the Minsk Group in the Nagorno-Karabakh Conflict.” EUROPP: European Politics and Policy. London School of Economics. October 27, 2020. https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/europpblog/2020/10/27/sclerotic-soft-law-understanding-the-role-of-the-minsk-group-in-the-nagorno-karabakh-conflict/.

 

“Burying the Undertaker: The Concept of Civilization in the Hemispheric Relations of the Americas.” In Latin America and International Law (Matthias Packeiser & José Manuel Barreto, eds., ____) (forthcoming).

 

“Somalia tra elezioni e petrolio, con L’Italia sfocata di Silvia Romano.” L’Indro, May 27, 2020. https://www.lindro.it/somalia-tra-elezioni-e-petrolio-con-litalia-sfocata-di-silvia-romano/.

 

“Rethinking the Whiggish Narrative: The Monroe Doctrine and Condominium in Latin America/Repensando la Narrativa Whiggish: La Doctrina Monroe y el Condominio en América Latina.” In Derecho internacional: investigación, estudia y enseñanza, 161-99 (Paola Andrea Acosta-Alvarado, Laura Betancur-Restrepo, and Enrique Priéto-Ríos, eds., Bogotá: Universidad del Rosario, 2020). 38 pages. https://editorial.urosario.edu.co/gpd-derecho-internacional-investigacion-estudio-y-ensenanza.html.

 

“Kenya and Somalia Row over Offshore Rights is Rooted in the Carve Up of Africa.” The Conversation (Global Perspectives) (March 4, 2019). https://theconversation.com/kenya-and-somalia-row-over-offshore-rights-is-rooted-in-the-carve-up-of-africa-112627.

 

“What Migingo, The World’s Tiniest Border Dispute, Tells Us About International Law.” The Conversation (Global Perspectives) (December 6, 2017). https://theconversation.com/what-migingo-the-worlds-tiniest-disputed-island-tells-us-about-international-law-88536.

 

“The Big Political and Legal Stakes of a Feud Over a Tiny South American River.” World Politics Review (July 18, 2017). http://www.worldpoliticsreview.com/trend-lines/22737/the-big-political-and-legal-stakes-of-a-feud-over-a-tiny-south-american-river.

 

“No Joy in Juba:  South Sudan and the Search for R2P’s International Community.” Oxford Research Group, Division of Sustainable Security. 6 pages. (2016). https://sustainablesecurity.org/2016/08/16/no-joy-in-juba-south-sudan-and-the-r2p/; https://sustainablesecurity.org/showcase-page/articles/.

 

"The Case Concerning Military and Paramilitary Activities In and Against Nicaragua." In Historic U.S. Court Cases: An Encyclopedia (rev. ed., John W. Johnson, editor), New York: Garland Publishing, 228-232 (2001). 4 pages.

 

"El Arbitraje Venezolano de 1903: Vuelta al Futoro al Final de Siglo XX?," in II Temas de derecho internacional 1996, 105-123 (1996). 18 pages.