id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt work_yc5kdaqxwvhehjomz76ifo57g4 Chibli Mallat The Limits of Authoritarian International Law 2020 5 .pdf application/pdf 3123 205 49 Tom Ginsburg's concept of "authoritarian international law" (AIL)1 is as important as the one it references, rights and democracy,4 Ginsburg's article adds an account of the international setbacks which followed. importance is in raising the question of the emergent authoritarian traits of international law in the wake of these 1 Tom Ginsburg, Authoritarian International Law?, 114 AJIL 221, 228 (2020). "crime against humanity."7 As for separatism, I believe that its rejection is the correct attitude to salvage international law in its current configuration of nation-states.8 De jure separatism—secession, self-determination or independence, all four words covering in my understanding here the same concept—creates far more problems than it 13 MALLAT, supra note 7, at 333–42 (discussing R2P and international criminal law). There is in Ginsburg's article a seemingly conscious oblivion to U.S. isolationism in the rise of AIL, and its application during the presidency of Donald Trump. ./cache/work_yc5kdaqxwvhehjomz76ifo57g4.pdf ./txt/work_yc5kdaqxwvhehjomz76ifo57g4.txt