Suttle, O. (2019) "Rules and Values in International Adjudication: The Case of the WTO Appellate Body", 68:2, International & Comparative Law Quarterly, 399-441  UPDATE: This paper is now published here. Excited to have a new paper coming out later this year in International & Comparative Law Quarterly, in which I try to think a bit … Continue reading Rules and Values in International Adjudication

I have a new paper in the current (80:4) issue of the Modern Law Review. In it I try to think through what exactly we mean when we make claims of self-determination, and what kinds of policies those claims might in turn serve to justify. I put this theoretical discussion to work in trying to … Continue reading “What Sorts of Things are Public Morals? A Liberal Cosmopolitan Approach to Article XX GATT”

My forthcoming book, Distributive Justice and World Trade Law: A Political Theory of International Trade Regulation, is now available for pre-order from the publishers, Cambridge University Press. It will be a few more months before the book is actually available, but you can pop over to CUP's website for a bit more information, as well as an opportunity to register your … Continue reading Distributive Justice and World Trade Law

I have a paper in the most recent (12:1) issue of the Journal of International Law and International Relations, in which I apply Habermas's concept of communicative action to make sense of the role of law in international politics. I back up my theoretical musings with two historical case studies from the early years of the … Continue reading “Law as Deliberative Discourse: The Politics of International Legal Argument – Social Theory with Historical Illustrations”

I have a paper in the latest issue (17:5) of the German Law Journal, in which I examine the discourse of sovereign debt in terms of two traditions of liberal thought about the morality of economic life, and the different qualities of economic cooperation and governance within and beyond the state. This is a Special Issue on Democracy and Financial Order, … Continue reading “Debt, Default and Two Liberal Theories of Justice”

The most recent issue of EJIL:Live!, the podcast of the European Journal of International Law, includes a conversation between Prof Joseph Weiler and myself about my article, 'Equality in Global Commerce: Towards a Political Theory of International Economic Law', which appears in issue 25:4 of the journal. http://www.ejil.org/episode.php?episode=11

I have an article in the new (25:4) issue of the European Journal of International Law, in which I draw on global justice debates in contemporary political philosophy to propose a theory of international economic law (mostly WTO) in terms of global distributive justice. Full citation: "Equality in Global Commerce: Towards a Political Theory of International Economic Law" (2014) 25:4 European Journal of … Continue reading “Equality in Global Commerce: Towards a Political Theory of International Economic Law”

I have a review essay in the new issue of the Journal of World Investment and Trade, discussing two recent edited volumes, and thinking a bit more generally about the state of interdisciplinary work in political theory and international economic law. Full Citation: "Poverty and Justice: Competing Lenses on International Economic Law" (2014) 15 Journal of World Investment and … Continue reading “Poverty and Justice: Competing Lenses on International Economic Law”