Attorney General’s speech on international law: a momentum not to be wasted

The Attorney General’s latest lecture on the relevance of international law to UK’s foreign policy, given at the Royal United Services Institute, has produced multiple adverse reactions. It is not my purpose here to assess the wider political implications of that discussion. Instead, I focus on those aspects of this debate that are relevant to the discipline of international law.

The Attorney General’s remark about Carl Schmitt’s approach to international law may be “clumsy” and, at any rate....Read full article