Professor Başak Çalı (Hertie School) joins us to talk about the authority of international law, Ronald Dworkin's interpretivism, and human rights.

Publications referred to in the episode:

Çalı, Başak. The Authority of International Law: Obedience, Respect, and Rebuttal. New York: Oxford University Press, 2015.
Çalı, Başak. ‘On Interpretivism and International Law’, European Journal of International Law 20, No. 3 (2009): 805–822.
Dworkin, Ronald. ‘A New Philosophy for International Law’. Philosophy & Public Affairs 41, no. 1 (2013): 2–30 (posthumous).
Gorobets, Kostiantyn. ‘Solidarity as a Practical Reason: Grounding the Authority of International Law’. Netherlands International Law Review 69, no. 1 (2022): 3–27.

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Episode 15: Başak Çalı on Authority, Interpretivism, and Human Rights

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