Author: Moritz Koenig

[Moritz Koenig is a research fellow at the International Institute of Social Studies (ISS) in The Hague. His research focusses on the history and theory of international law and anti-colonial movements.] It has become a well-established argument that international law is plagued by several indeterminacies. Scholars such as David Kennedy and Martti Koskenniemi have long argued that this indeterminacy is part...

[Moritz Koenig obtained his PhD in law from SOAS, University of London and is currently working on a research project on the history of Dutch colonial law schools.] It has often been argued that international law and international legal scholarship are incapable of reforming themselves. David Kennedy has argued that supposed renewal in legal argument is usually simply a recycling of old ideas and...