Kevin Crow

Selected Journal Articles

• What Does a Corporation Owe?: The Scope of Obligations in International Investment Counterclaims (with Lina Lorenzoni Escobar), 31 Minnesota Journal of International Law 1 (2022).
• From Traction to Treaty Bound: Erga Omnes, Jus Cogens, and Corporate Subjectivity in International Investment Arbitration (with Lina Lorenzoni Escobar) 13 Journal of International Dispute Settlement 121 (2022).
• International Corporate Constituency as a Human Problem, 12 Transnational Legal Theory 159 (2021).
• International Law and Corporate Participation in Times of Armed Conflict: Financial Liability Through ISDS?, 37 Berkeley Journal of International Law 64 (2019).
• The Opacity of Proportionality in International Courts: Could Categories Clarify?, 52 George Washington International Law Review 289 (2019).
• International Corporate Obligations, Human Rights, and the Urbaser Standard: Breaking New Ground? (with Lina Lorenzoni Escobar), 36 Boston University International Law Journal 87 (2018).
• The Concept of ‘Development’ in International Economic Law: Three Definitions and an Inquiry Into Origin, 14 Manchester Journal of International Economic Law 148 (2017).
• The Merits or the Messenger?: Complementarity and the Referral Process in the ICC’s Application of Article 17 of the Rome Statute, 26 Journal of Transnational Law & Policy 53 (2017).
• The Emerging Neoliberal Penality: Rethinking Foucauldian Punishment in a Profit-Driven Carceral System, 52 Criminal Law Bulletin 1 (2016).

Book

• International Corporate Personhood: Business and the Bodyless in International Law (Routledge 2021).

Book Chapters

• International Law as Evangelism, in Benjamin Porat & David Flatto (eds.), ‘Law as Religion, Religion as Law’ (Cambridge 2022).
• Bandung’s Fate, in Ingo Venzke & Kevin Jon Heller (eds.), ‘Contingency and the Course of International Law’ (Oxford 2021).
• Winds of Justice: Post-Colonial Opportunism and the Rise of the Khmer Rouge, in Morten Bergsmo, Wolfgang Kaleck & Kyaw Yin Hlaing (eds.), ‘Colonial Wrongs and Access to International Law’ (TOAEP 2020).
• DSB Supervision of Implementation at the WTO (with Prof. Dr. Christian Tietje), ‘Max Planck EiPro Encyclopedia of International Law’ (Oxford 2020).
• Corporate Persons and Crimes Against Humanity, ‘European Yearbook of International Law, Special Issue on International Investment Law and the Law of Armed Conflict’ (Springer 2019).
• The Reform of Investment Protection Rules in CETA, TTIP, and Other Recent EU-FTAs: Convincing? (with Prof. Dr. Christian Tietje), in Stefan Griller, Walter Obwexer & Erich Vranes (eds.), ‘Mega-Regional Agreements: TTIP, CETA, TiSA: New Orientations for EU External Economic Relations’ (Oxford 2017).

Textbook Commentaries

• On the Confirmation of Charges Against Charles Ble Goude (ICC), André Klip & Steven Freeland (eds.), Annotated Leading Cases of International Criminal Tribunals (“ALC”), Vol. LXIV (Intersentia 2021).
• Commentary on Prosecutor v. Duch (ECCC), André Klip & Steven Freeland (eds.), ALC Vol. LX (Intersentia 2020).
• The Scope of the ICC Registrar’s Powers Under Regulation 135, André Klip & Steven Freeland (eds.), ALC Vol. LVII (Intersentia 2019).
• Commentary on Prosecutor v. Radovan Karadzic (ICTY), André Klip & Steven Freeland (eds.), ALC Vol. LIV (Intersentia 2017).
• Recent ICC Applications of Article 17 of the Rome Statute, André Klip & Göran Sluiter (eds.), ALC Vol. LII (Intersentia 2016).

Works in Progress

• ‘The Natural’ in International Law
  • A broad multiyear international collaboration exploring ‘states of nature’ and ‘forces of nature’ assumed in judicial reasoning, legal texts, and market justifications in international law.
• Bowring’s Legacies
  • An inquiry into the present implications of the 1855 Bowring Treaty between Great Britain and present-day Thailand, particularly its provisions on extraterritoriality and taxation.

Working Papers

• A Taxonomy of Proportionality in International Courts, iCourts Working Paper Series No. 107 (November 2017).
• The Urbaser Standard: Breaking New Ground? (with Lina Lorenzoni-Escobar), Beiträge Transnationalen Wirtschaftsrecht, Heft 144 (2017).
• A Chapter-by-Chapter Analysis of the Trans-Pacific Partnership, ASB Working Paper (February 2016).

Policy Papers

• ‘Trumpism’, the TPP, and the Politics of Uncertainty, Policy Papers on Transnational Economic Law No. 46, Transnational Economic Law Research Centre (TELC) (Feb. 2017).
• The TPP and Malaysia: Local Impact and Implications Following the Conclusion of the Partnership Negotiations, Pol’y Papers on Transnat’l Econ. L. No. 44, TELC (Oct. 2015).
• The TPA in 2015: A Quick Look at the Latest Incarnation of the U.S. President’s ‘Fast Track’ Trade Negotiation Authority, Pol’y Papers on Transnat’l Econ. L. No. 43, TELC (June 2015).

Opinion Pieces

• A Pagan Christmas, Critical Legal Thinking (December 2021).
• The Use of ‘Human Rights’ and ‘Development’ by Evangelical Organizations, OpenDemocracy (June 2018).
• Trump’s Travel Ban v. Macron’s Police Power Reforms, Social Europe (June 2017).
• Four Key Features of the Emerging ‘Trumpism’, Social Europe (April 2017).
• Anne Saab, Narratives of Hunger in International Law: Feeding the World in Times of Climate Change, 23 Journal of International Economic Law 1049 (2020).
• Anthea Roberts, Is International Law International?, 21 Journal of International Economic Law 739 (2018).
• Diane Desierto, Public Policy in International Economic Law: The ICESCR in Trade, Finance, and Investment, 21 Journal of International Economic Law 1 (2018).
• Iryna Marchuk, The Fundamental Concept of Crime in International Criminal Law, 15 Journal of International Criminal Justice 2 (2017).

Workshops and Conference Presentations

• Co-Convenor, The Push and Pull of Fairness: Theoretical Approaches to Fairness in International Law, ESIL Annual Conference, Aix-en-Provence, 30 August-3 September 2023.
• International Law and GVCs, Society for the Advancement of Socio-Economics, Annual Conference, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 20-22 July 2023.
• Co-Convenor, Public and Private Commodity Production in International Law, Eafit University Law School, Phase I Conference, Eafit University, Medellín, Colombia, 17 July 2023.
• Prominence and Dominance: Monetary Policy and International Economic Legal Theory, SIEL Biannual Conference, Bagotá, Colombia, 12-14 July 2023.
• The ‘Christian Subject’: Secret Societies and the Opium Trade in Siam and the Straits Settlements, 3rd Asian Legal History Conference, CUHK, Hong Kong, China, 20-21 June 2023.
• Prominence and Dominance: Monetary Policy and International Law, Money as a Democratic Medium, Harvard Law School, Boston, USA, 15-17 June 2023.
• Participant, 4th UN South Asia Forum on Business and Human Rights, Kathmandu, Nepal, 20-22 March, 2023.
• Co-Convener, ‘The Natural’ in International Law, Amsterdam Center for International Law, Asia School of Business, Graduate Institute Global Governance Centre, Amsterdam, 8-9 September 2022.
• LSA Conference, ‘Rage, Reckoning, and Remedy’, ICSTE University Institute Lisbon, 14-16 July 2022.
• ICONS Annual Conference, ‘Global Problems and Prospects in Public Law’, Wrocław, 4-6 July 2022.
• Inequality, Silence, and ‘the Natural’ in International Law, ANU Law School’s 60th Anniversary Conference: Public Law and Inequality, Canberra, February 2022.
• Bowring’s Legacies, Asian Legal History Conference, CUHK – Hue University, Vietnam, July 2021.
• Working Group on ‘The Natural’ in International Law, Organizer / Participant, ICONS Conference, ‘The Future of Public Law’, Mundo (online), July 2021.
• Solidarity and ‘The Natural’ in International Law, 2020 ESIL Research Forum, ‘Solidarity: The Quest for Founding Utopias in International Law’, Catania, April 2021.
• Constituency and the International Corporate Person, Transnational Law Institute, King’s College London, ‘Bringing the Human Problem Back: The Example of Corporate (Ir)responsibility’, October 2020.
• From Traction to Treaty Bound: Erga Omnes, Multinationals, and the Arbitral Use of Judge-Made Law, presented with Lina Lorenzoni-Escobar at the ESIL/Católica Global Law School conference, ‘Socially Responsible Foreign Investment Under International Law,’ Lisbon, October 2019.
• Institutional Moralization and International Corporate Persons, presented at the Taylor’s University Law School international conference, ‘The Future of Law & Legal Practice,’ Kuala Lumpur, October 2019.
• The Individual Moralization of Corruption and the International Corporate Person, presented at the EUI Conference on ‘Corruption, Democracy and Human Rights,’ Florence, June 2019.
• International Anti-Corruption Law and the International Corporate Person, Wharton/SciencesPo Conference on ‘The Transnationalization of Anti-Corruption Law’, Paris, December 2018.
• International Corporate Personhood: Future Roads, UN 8th Annual Forum on Business & Human Rights, United Nations Palais des Nations, Geneva, November 2018.
• Bandung’s Missed Legacies: Alternative Normative Approaches to International Law?, ACIL Conference, ‘Contingency in International Law’, Amsterdam, June 2018.
• Redesigning International Adjudication, Howard League, ‘Redesigning Justice’, Oxford, March 2018.
• International Human Rights Law as a Tool of Repression: International Evangelical Organizations, Development Funding, and LGBT Rights, ARC Strategic Litigation Symposium, ‘The Use of Law by Social Movements & Civil Society’, Brussels, March 2018.
• Human Rights and the Fluctuation of Executive Powers in the U.S.: From Nixon to Trump, ‘Populism, Nationalism, and Human Rights’ at Maastricht University, The Netherlands, January 2018.
• Corporate Subjectivity and Crimes Against Humanity: Can Arbitrators Push the Boundaries of Investor-to-State Financial Liability?, Colloquium on ‘International Investment Law and the Law of Armed Conflict’, National University of Athens, Greece, October 2017.
• Corporate Human Rights Obligations and International Investment Law: Urbaser’s Potential, ESIL IHRL Interest Group at the 13th Annual ESIL Conference, Naples, September 2017.
• Migrations of Power: International IP Law and the Implications of Eli Lilly, ICONS Conference, ‘Courts, Power, Public Law’, Copenhagen, July 2017.
• International Law as Evangelism: American Christianity and the UN Development Project, Hebrew University, ‘Law as Religion, Religion as Law’, Jerusalem, June 2017.
• The ‘Proportionality’ Delusion in International Law, LUISS Guido Carli University, ‘Constitutional Adjudication: Between Pluralism and Unity’, Rome, May 2017.

Invited Talks

• Responsibility in Action, Leadership Energy Summit Asia (LESA), Kuala Lumpur Malaysia, 16-18 November 2020, ASB Iclif Executive Education Center.
• Comment on the ECCC and Colonialism and Post-Colonialism, CILRAP Expert Meeting on Colonial Legacies and Access to International Law, Yangon, Myanmar, 16-17 November 2019.
• The Evolving Status of Corporate Subjectivity to International Law: Developments in ISDS, presented to the IFF Research Seminar Series at the MIT Sloan School of Management, February 2018.
• A Taxonomy of Proportionality in International Courts, presented to the iCourts Research Seminar at the University of Copenhagen Law School, 13 September 2017.
• International Corporate Obligations, Human Rights, and the Urbaser Standard: Breaking New Ground?, with Lina Lorenzoni Escobar, presented at the Law After Lunch Seminar Series at the University of Halle-Wittenberg Law School, 27 April 2017.
• Is There a Better Way to Approach ‘Judgment’ in International Law?: International IP Law and the Case of Eli Lilly, presented at the Asia School of Business, Research Seminar, 13 February 2017.
• The Asymmetry of Investor-State Obligations Under International Investment Law, presented to the World Bank in Kuala Lumpur as part of the Half-Baked Seminar Series, 6 December 2016.
• Food Security and the Human Right to Knowledge, presented to the Summer School on Food Security at the University of Halle-Wittenberg Law School, 15 September 2016.