The IJIL Podcast

One world, Again - Episode 11

In this episode, we discuss some of the most pressing issues that face the world today, which cannot be contained by jurisdictional boundaries. Climate change, poverty, and pandemic. To discuss the concept of One World, we invite Peter Singer, one of the world's eminent philosophers and a pioneer of the animal welfare movement, to share his insights.

Peter Singer"s most recent book is "Why Vegan? Eating Ethically".

In this episode, the discussion charts the trajectory of constitutional development in Myanmar with UNSW Associate Professor Melissa Crouch, an Australia based legal scholar.

In response to the previous episode, Mies Grijns provides a number of comparative insights on the phenomenon of child marriage with an emphasize on the Indonesian context. Ms. Mies Grijn is a Dutch anthropologist who specializes on child marriage in Indonesia.

Based on his IJIL article, John Mbaku discusses the importance of international law in combating the rampant practice of child marriage in African states. Also, Mbaku shows how to take advantage of international law norms in the non-ratifying African states. John Mbaku is a Cameroon born distinguished legal and economics scholar.

Given the increasing pressure to publish in internationally recognized outlets, this episode discusses the backroom machination of scholarly publications with Kevin Hewison the Editor in Chief of the Journal of Contemporary Asia, the world’s leading journal in Asian studies.

This episode discusses the democratic regression as it happens in Zambia. It invites a Zambian born world's renown constitution-making scholar, Muna B. Ndulo.

Based on her project that analyzes references to Islamic legal traditions in the decisions of the International Court of Justice and extensive field research, Emilia presents her findings that illuminate Islamic Law states' views on international legal norms. 

Emilia Powell is an Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Notre Dame and Concurrent Associate Professor of Law at the University of Notre Dame.

In this episode, we converse with Gerhard Dannemann, a German legal comparativist whose one of his main focuses is Private Law, to understand what it means to perform understanding law comparatively. Gerhard Dannemann is Professor of English Law, British Economy and Politics and Dean of Studies at Humboldt University, Germany; Chair of the Group’s Redaction Committee and Terminology Group, and Research Fellow of the Institute of European and Comparative Law, University of Oxford. He is the founder and general editor of the Oxford University Comparative Law Forum and the German Law Archive, founding member of the Acquis Group (European Research Group on Existing EC Private Law).

In this episode, Dan will converse with Ana Vrdoljak, a leading scholar on the law of the return of cultural heritage who teaches the University of Technology Sydney, on the state of international laws on the subjects, with particular emphasis on the tension between the former colonies and their former colonial powers

Based on one of his recently published paper, Tom Ginsburg, a distinguished scholar on constitutional studies, discusses his forward looking take on the growing possibility for a global legal system where authoritarian impulses serves as its animal spirit.

Tom Ginsburg teaches at the University of Chicago's law school and school of political science and an advisory board member of the Institute for Migrant Rights, Cianjur - Indonesia. His researches intersect between international law and comparative constitutional studies that represent the "empirical turn" in international and comparative law scholarship.