The Private is Political

Despite its enormous growth in importance over the last 20 years or so, the History of International Law as an academic sub-discipline has so far widely neglected private international law. León Castellanos-Jankiewicz argues that this is particularly true of the historiography of human rights. A conversation about the silence between public and private international lawyers, the adjacent possible, and Karen Knop’s legacy for probing the political implications of legal reasoning techniques.