Ntina Tzouvala - Capitalism As Civilisation: A History of International Law

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Capitalism As Civilisation

A History of International Law

Ntina Tzouvala

Australian National University College of Law

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Ntina Tzouvala 2020

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First published 2020

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At an age when all our interactions ought to be subject to measurement, quantification and evaluation, many colleagues, friends and mentors took the time to think with and (productively) against me. This project began as my doctoral dissertation, which I undertook at Durham Law School between 2012 and 2016. There, I was lucky enough to be supervised by Gleider I. Hernndez, whose patience, intelligence and good humour helped me to continue when everything seemed a bit too much. Aoife ODonoghue not only helped me with this arduous process but she has since read and commented on parts of this monograph with sharpness and warmth that attest to her feminist ethos. Alice Panepinto, Rumy Grozdanova-Van Ark, Alan Greene, Andrs Delgado Casteleiro and Tom Sparks were the best writing, thinking and beverage-drinking companions I could have wished for. Cesare Aloisi and Massimiliano Rota fed me and helped me solve social issues. They still do, albeit from a distance.

In late 2016, I moved to Australia to take up a position with the Laureate Program in International Law at Melbourne Law School. I am grateful to Anne Orford for her intellectual generosity, her ability to foster a truly welcoming but challenging environment and her good advice on matters of international law and beyond. My fellow team members, Marnie Lloydd, Fabia Veoso, Sebastian Machado, Amber Withers, Wendy Chen and Jack Stanovsek, listened to my rants gracefully and steered me back in the right direction. Anna Saunders has always been willing to ask the hard questions and share a cup of tea. Lus Bogliolo has been a true comrade, with all the gravity this word carries. Thanking Kathryn Greenman would require its own section (if not book), so I am going to leave it here. I am also deeply indebted to my Melbourne Law School students. Their lively interest, original thinking and wit kept me on my toes and gave me hope for the future when things seemed hopeless. Melbourne Law School supported my research in multiple ways, including by granting me Research Support Funds and a Research Excellence Grant. I deeply appreciate this institutional commitment to helping junior researchers such as myself.