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Open Access Publication with the German Yearbook of Int’l Law
Escher’s Waterfall is unsettling to me. A perpetual cascade of water whose origin and end are indistinguishable. Water forever falling and returning, causality suspended in an optical illusion. This impossible structure haunted me as I wrote my article “Causal Loops, Ontological Crises, and Customary International Law”, now published in the German Yearbook of International Law.…
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Towards a New Environmental Law of the Sea? (TEGL Conference, 2024)
A quick throwback to the ‘Transformative Effects of Globalization and Law‘ Conference, which took place on 16 December 2024 at Maastricht University Faculty of Law. I had the pleasure of organising and chairing the panel ‘Towards a New Environmental Law of the Sea? Navigating Legal Uncertainties in Warming Oceans’. My presentation focused on my ongoing…
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Book Chapter on Customary International Law
I am happy to share the publication of my book chapter ‘Addressing the Chronological Paradox of CIL,’ in the Cambridge University Press volume edited by Marina Fortuna, Panos Merkouris, Andreas Follesdal, Kostia Gorobets, Pauline Westermann, and Geir Ulfstein for the TRICI-Law project at the Rijksuniversiteit Groningen. In this chapter, I try to disentangle the chronological…
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Conference Organisation: NFT-L (Narratives, Frontier Technologies, and the Law)
Tina Ishak and I are organising a three-day conference at the Maastricht University Faculty of Law: the Narratives, Frontier Technologies & the Law (NFT-L) Conference. It’s happening from 30 October to 1 November 2024, both on-site at the Faculty and Online. In this conference, we’ll explore the intersection of frontier technologies—artificial Intelligence, robotics, neuro-technology, biotech,…
Henrique Marcos 