Populism, International Law and the End of Keep Calm and Carry on Lawyering

Schwöbel-Patel, Christine

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“…El Derecho internacional no es, de hecho, creado democráticamente, ni tampoco es creado exclusivamente por Estados democráticos. La crítica democrática puede provenir de cualquier actor comprometido de una forma u otra con la democracia, como ocurre, por ejemplo, con aquellas provenientes de Enfoques Tercermundistas del Derecho Internacional (TWAIL, por sus siglas en inglés) y otros 41 .…”

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El Populismo y su Antagonismo Hacia el Derecho Internacional: Lecciones desde Latinoamérica

Rudolphy

2022

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La literatura sobre el Derecho internacional suele asumir que la relación del populismo con este último es antagónica1. Sin embargo, una perspectiva centrada en América Latina, donde el populismo ha sido estudiado desde principios del siglo veinte, complejiza esta noción: líderes populistas han adoptado el multilateralismo, promovido la unidad regional e intentado crear instituciones internacionales. Además, tanto populistas como nopopulistas han resistido instituciones internacionales. Este ensayo problematiza la asunción de una relación necesariamente antagónica entre el populismo y el Derecho internacional, sosteniendo que dicha asunción carece de sustento empírico y está teóricamente subdesarrollada. Latinoamérica es un lugar relevante para problematizar esta noción, debido al rol del Poder Ejecutivo en la conducción de relaciones exteriores2 y la rica historia intelectual en la región respecto del populismo. El ensayo enfatiza la necesidad de desarrollar un marco teórico adecuado para el estudio de la relación entre populismo y Derecho internacional, marco que debiese ser menos eurocéntrico y sesgado normativamente, sin asumir que la resistencia al Derecho internacional siempre carece de mérito. Adicionalmente, debería permitirnos identificar lo distintivamente populista en esta relación y qué aspectos están mediados por las ideologías huésped.

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El Populismo y su Antagonismo Hacia el Derecho Internacional: Lecciones desde Latinoamérica

Rudolphy

2022

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“…24 In this way, we wish to step out of the -in our view unhelpful -binary that has structured the debate regarding international law and the far-right, in which a group of 'us' (law-abiding, progressive, and internationalist cosmopolitan community committed to expertise) is pitted against a 'them' (parochial, nationalistic, ignorant and narrowminded local actors revolting against a rules-based order). 25 Instead, we want to see how (international) legal expertise can be deployed by different political actors to prolong war 'by other means'. 26 But this does not mean that legal discourses and practices can be simply reduced to politics tout court (sadly, a frequent claim raised against contemporary critical legal perspectives).…”

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Ramírez-Gutiérrez

Quiroga-Villamarín²

2022

Journal of International Criminal Justice

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From 2012 to 2016, the Colombian Government and the FARC-EP guerilla group sought to end the region’s longest non-international armed conflict. Under the auspices of the international community, this process drew from a complex series of practices and knowledge often known as ‘transitional justice’. Indeed, international expertise — in law and other fields — was also actively mobilized by both parties, as well as civil society and the anti-peace opposition, to contest the meaning of these terms. On paper, the peace agreement adopted a cutting-edge and comprehensive system aimed at delivering truth, justice, reparation, and non-repetition (the SIVJRNR), including both judicial and extrajudicial mechanisms following international standards and best practices. Yet in practice, the situation became increasingly dire after the peace agreement was narrowly voted down in October 2016. Two years later, having entered government, the former populist opposition proudly announced its plan to shred the peace accord and the SIVJRNR (including its crown jewel: the Special Jurisdiction for Peace or JEP). In this context, this article seeks to identify and understand the strategies which might be adopted by transitional justice institutions to prevail against waves of populist misinformation and backlash. The Colombian experiment can offer important insights on how humanitarian actors can generate public narratives of reconciliation in our current dire times of mistrust.

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From Speaking Truth to Power to Speaking Power’s Truth: Transnational Judicial Activism in an Increasingly Illiberal World

Quiroga-Villamarín

2020

Beiträge Zum Ausländischen Öffentlichen Recht Und Völkerrecht

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South, judges have been at the forefront of the establishment of a new jus gentium common to all humankind. Implicit in this narrative, however, lies the idea that transnational judicial activism has inherent progressive outcomes: the rule of law, human rights, or liberalism tout court are the necessary products of these new forms of judicial communications. This implicit premise-which, unsurprisingly, responds to the naiveté of the post-cold war era-cannot hold in an increasingly illiberal world.

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Populism, International Law and the End of Keep Calm and Carry on Lawyering

Cited by 6 publications

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El Populismo y su Antagonismo Hacia el Derecho Internacional: Lecciones desde Latinoamérica

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