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<div>How (Not) to Be Cynical in International Law <i>by </i><i>Björnstjern Baade, Dana Burchardt, Prisca Feihle, Alicia Köppen, Linus Mührel, Lena Riemer and Raphael Schäfer</i>.- Part I – Cynical Foundations of International Law: Cynicism and the Autonomy of International Law <i>by </i><i>Theresa Reinold</i>.- Beyond Cynicism and Critique: International Law and the Possibility of Change <i>by Gabriel M Lentner</i>.- Cynicism as a Modus of Political Agency: Can It Speak to International Law? <i>by Hengameh Saberi</i>.- Part II – Cynical Actors in International Law: The International Law Commission as a Club of Cynics? Originalism and Legalism in the Commission’s Contemporary Work <i>by </i><i>Konstantin Kleine</i>.- The Added Value of the International Law Commission and Its Future Role in the Progressive Development and Codification of International Law <i>by </i>Patrícia Galvão Teles.- From Speaking Truth to Power to Speaking Power’s Truth: Transnational Judicial Activism in an Increasingly Illiberal World <i>by </i><i>Daniel R. Quiroga-Villamarín</i>.- From Judicialisation to Politicisation? A Response to Daniel Ricardo Quiroga-Villamarín by an Academic Turned Practitioner <i>by </i><i>Andreas Paulus</i>.- Oceans of Cynicism? Norm-Genesis, Lawfare and the South China Sea Arbitration Case <i>by </i><i>Christian R. J. Pogies</i>.- Peace Through Law? The Role of the Law of the Sea Convention Put into Question <i>by Nele Matz-Lück</i>.- Part III – Cynicism in European Law and Subfields of International Law: Assessing the Strategic Use of the EU Preliminary Ruling Procedure by National Courts <i>by Jesse T. Claassen</i>.- In International Law We (Do Not) Trust: The Persistent Rejection of Economic and Social Rights as a Manifestation of Cynicism <i>by </i>Caroline Omari Lichuma.- In International Law We Shall Trust – (Even in) The Case of Economic and Social Rights <i>by </i><i>Dominik Steiger</i>.- All Is Fair in Law and War? Legal Cynicism in the Israeli-PalestinianConflict <i>by </i><i>Shiri Krebs</i>.- Cynicism? Yes, Please! Embracing Cynicism at the International Criminal Court <i>by Elisabeth Baier</i>.- Part IV – Cynicism and Abuse of Rights: Abuse of Right in International Law: A Roman Law Analogy <i>by Andrea Faraci and Luigi Lonardo</i>.- Abuse of Rights: From Roman Law to International Law? Comments on the Contribution by Andrea Faraci and Luigi Lonardo <i>by Helmut Philipp Aust</i>.- Cynicism and Nationality Planning in International Investment Law <i>by Philipp Janig</i>.- (New) Ways of Combating Abuse and Circumvention of European Law on the Example of Tax Evasion and Tax Avoidance <i>by Helene Hayden</i>.- Cynicism as an Analytical Lense for International Law? Concluding Observations <i>by </i><i>Heike Krieger</i>.<br></div>

<p><b>Björnstjern Baade</b> is senior research fellow at the Institute for Public and International Law of Freie Universität Berlin and postdoc in the working group ‘Towards a Proceduralization of International Law?’ of the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law, Berlin/Heidelberg.</p><p><b>Dana Burchardt</b> is senior research fellow at Freie Universität Berlin and member of the Berlin Potsdam Research Group ‘International Rule of Law – Rise or Decline?’.</p><p><b>Prisca Feihle</b> is doctoral candidate and research fellow at Freie Universität Berlin.</p><p><b>Alicia Köppen</b> is doctoral candidate at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, law clerk at Berlin Appellate Court (Kammergericht Berlin) and member of the Völkerrechtsblog editorial team.&nbsp; </p><p><b>Linus Mührel</b> is doctoral candidate at Freie Universität Berlin and research fellow at Technische Universität Dresden.</p><p><b>Lena Riemer</b> is a former doctoral candidate and former research fellow at Freie Universität Berlin.</p><p> </p><p><b>Raphael Schäfer</b> is doctoral candidate at Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg and research fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law, Heidelberg.</p><br>

The very first dedicated examination of the phenomenon of cynicism in international law Provides a comprehensive analysis, including the theoretical foundations of law, the role of important actors such as the International Law Commission and international judges, and specific fields of international law such as international humanitarian law and investment law Includes a historically-informed analysis of the doctrine of 'abuse of rights' which is so far under-researched in public international and European Union Law