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The international public: a farewell to functions in international law : Symposium on Frédéric Mégret "Are there 'inherently sovereign functions’ in International law?”

Besson, Samantha

In: AJIL Unbound (American Journal of International Law), 2021, vol. 115, p. 307-311

Du droit de civilisation européen au droit international des civilisations : instituer un monde des régions

Besson, Samantha

In: Swiss Review of International and European Law, 2021, vol. 31, no. 3, p. 373-400

Reconstruire le droit international à partir des organisations régionales = Reconstructing International Law starting from Regional Organizations

Besson, Samantha

In: Revue européenne du droit (RED), 2021, no. 2, p. 65-69

Reconstructing International Law starting from Regional Organizations = Reconstruire le droit international à partir des organisations régionales

Besson, Samantha

In: Revue européenne du droit (RED), 2021, no. 2, p. 64-68

Review of José Alvarez's The Impact of International Organizations on International Law

Besson, Samantha

In: European Journal of International Law, 2019, vol. 30, no. 1, p. 344-349

International courts and the jurisprudence of statehood

Besson, Samantha

In: Transnational Legal Theory, 2019, vol. 10, no. 1, p. 30-64

International courts (ICs) have not only been specifying States’ duties, but have also contributed to the definition of States themselves. The article focuses on the case-law of three ICs: the International Court of Justice qua generalist international law court, and its making of the ‘internationalised State’; the European Court of Human Rights qua regional human rights court, and its...

Legitimate actors of international law-making : towards a theory of international democratic representation

Besson, Samantha ; Martí, José Luis

In: Jurisprudence, 2018, vol. 9, no. 3, p. 504-540

Human Rights and Democracy in a Global Context - Decoupling and Recoupling

Besson, Samantha

In: Ethics and Global Politics, 2011, vol. 4, no. 1, p. 19-50

Human rights and democracy have been regarded as a mutually reinforcing couple by many political theorists to date. The internationalisation of human rights post-1945 is often said to have severed those links, however. Accounting for the legitimacy of international human rights requires exploring how human rights and democracy, once they have been decoupled or disconnected, can be recoupled...