Christopher Robert Rossi


Job description

Books:

  •  Remoteness Reconsidered: The Atacama Desert and International Law. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2021.
  •  Whiggish International Law: Elihu Root, the Monroe Doctrine, and International Law in the Americas. Leiden and Boston: Brill/Nijhoff, 2019.
  •  Sovereignty and Territorial Temptation: The Grotian Tendency. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2017.
  •  Broken Chain of Being: James Brown Scott and the Origins of Modern International Law. The Hague, London, Boston: Kluwer Law International, 1998.
  •  Equity and International Law: A Legal Realist Approach to International Decisionmaking. Irvington-on-Hudson, N.Y.: Transnational Publishers, 1993.
  •  Co-editor, II Temas de derecho internacional 1996. Caracas, Venezuela: García-Diffendini &Asociados, 1996.
  •  Assistant co-editor, Towards Nuclear Disarmament and Global Security. Boulder: Westview Press, 1984.

Journal Articles (available at: http://ssrn.com/author=2503793):

  • "Arctic Anadromy and Congested Governance." 52(3) Environmental Law Reporter 10193-10210 (2022). http://ssrn.com/abstract=3979519.
  • "Water Security and Hydro-Egoism: Endogenous Hegemony and the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam." __ Indiana International &Comparative Law Review __-__ (2022). http://ssrn.com/abstract=3921624.
  • "Interstitial Space and the High Himalayan Dispute between China and India." 62(2) Harvard International Law Journal, 429-468 (2021). 40 pages. http://ssrn.com/abstract=3759916.
  • "The Blind Eye: Jus Soli and the "Pretended" Treaty of New Echota." 9(2) American Indian Law Journal, 402-433 (2021). 31 pages. http://ssrn.com/abstract=3818266.
  • "The Widening Gyre: Legal Formalism and International Law's Sense of Place," 11(1) Notre Dame Journal of International and Comparative Law, 107-137 (2021). 30 pages. http://ssrn.com/abstract=3615091.
  • "Blood, Water, and the Indus Waters Treaty." 29(2) Minnesota Journal of International Law,103-158 (2020). 56 pages. http://ssrn.com/abstract=3510327.
  • "Game of Thrones: The Qatar Crisis and Forced Expulsion on the Arabian Peninsula." 7(1) Penn State Journal of Law & International Affairs,1-52 (2019). 52 pages. http://ssrn.com/abstract=3262649.
  • "Asia-Pacific Interests in the Emerging Arctic." 9(1) Yonsei Law Journal, 1-21 (2018). 21 pages. http://ssrn.com/abstract=3209391.
  • "The Nomos of Climate Change and the Sociological Refugee in a Sinking Century." 50(3) George Washington International Law Review, 101-138 (2018). 38 pages. http://ssrn.com/abstract=3055415.
  • "Hauntings, Hegemony, and the Threatened African Exodus from the International Criminal Court." 40(2) Human Rights Quarterly, 369-405 (2018). 37 pages. http://ssrn.com/abstract=2969130; http://muse.jhu.edu/article/694701/pdf.
  • "The Gulf of Fonseca and International Law: Condominium or Imperial Anticolonialism?" 3(1) Law Gentium: Journal of International Legal History, 115-153 (2018). 39 pages. https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3055424.
  • "The Migingo Island Dispute between Uganda and Kenya." 42(2) Brooklyn Journal of International Law, 659-693 (2017). 34 pages. http://ssrn.com/abstract=2819216.
  • "Norway's Imperiled Sovereignty Claim over Svalbard's Adjacent Waters." 18(6) German Law Journal, 1497-1530 (2017). 34 pages. http://ssrn.com/abstract=3072570.
  • "Treaty of Tordesillas Syndrome: Sovereignty ad Absurdum and the South China Sea Arbitration." 50(2) Cornell International Law Journal, 232-283 (2017). 52 pages. http://ssrn.com/abstract=2896098.
  • "Nagorno-Karabakh and the Minsk Group: The Imperfect Appeal of Soft Law in an Overlap Neighborhood." 52(1) Texas International Law Journal, 45-70 (2017). 26 pages. http://ssrn.com/abstract=2954185.
  • "The Transboundary Dispute over the Waters of the Silala/Siloli: Legal Vandalism and Goffmanian Metaphor." 53(1) Stanford Journal of International Law, 55-87 (2017). 33 pages. http://ssrn.com/abstract=2951271.
  • "A Case Ill Suited for Judgment: Constructing 'A Sovereign Access to the Sea' in the Atacama Desert." 48(2) Inter-American Law Review, 28-86 (2017). 58 pages. http://ssrn.com/abstract=2764459.
  • "The International Community, South Sudan, and the Responsibility to Protect." 49(1) New York University Journal of International Law & Politics, 129-180 (2016). 51 pages. http://ssrn.com/abstract=2764600.
  • "'A Unique International Problem': The Svalbard Treaty, Equal Enjoyment, and Terra Nullius: Lessons of Territorial Temptation from History." 15(1) Washington University Global Studies Law Review, 93-136 (2016). 44 pages. https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2764452.
  • "Impaled on Morton's Fork: Kosovo, Crimea and the Sui Generis Circumstance." 30(3) Emory International Law Review, 353-390 (2016). 38 pages. http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2735171.
  • "Ex Injuria Law Non Oritur, Ex Factis Law Oritur and the Elusive Search for Equilibrium after Ukraine," 24(1) Tulane Journal of International &comparative Law, 143-173 (2015). 30 pages. http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2723675.
  • "The Club Within the Club: The Challenge of a Soft Law Framework in a Global Arctic Context," 5(1) Polar Journal, 8-34 (2015). 26 pages. http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2723644.
  • "Jura Novit Curia? Condominium in the Gulf of Fonseca and the 'Local Illusion' of a Pluri-State Bay," 37(3) Houston Journal of International Law, 793-840 (2015). 48 pages. http://ssrn.com/abstract=2723676.
  • "A Particular Kind of Dominium: The Grotian 'Tendency' and the Global Commons in a Time of High Arctic Change," 11(1) University of Toronto Journal of International Law & International Relations, 1-60 (2015). 60 pages. http://ssrn.com/abstract=2723678.
  • "Russian Arctic Straits and the Temptation of Uti Possidetis." 24(1) Transnational Law & Contemporary Problems, 19-68 (2014). 49 pages. http://ssrn.com/abstract=2723627.
  • "The Responsibility to Protect and the Plenitudinal Mindset of International Humanitarian Law," 5(1-2) Journal of International Humanitarian Legal Studies, 352-395 (2014). 44 pages. http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2723655.
  • "The Northern Sea Route and the Seaward Extension of Uti Possidetis (Juris). 83(4) Nordic Journal of International Law," 476-508 (2014). 32 pages. http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2737420.
  • Guest Editor, 17(1) Transnational Law & Contemporary Problems. War Crimes Symposium. University of Iowa College of Law (2008). 305 pages. http://heinonline.org/HOL/Page?handle=hein.journals/tlcp17&div=3&g_sent=1&collection=journals.
  • "Introduction: Qui Tolis Pecatta Mundi? Lebanon's Hybrid Tribunal." 17(1) Transnational Law & Contemporary Problems, 1-7 (2008). 7 pages. https://heinonline.org/HOL/Page?public=true&handle=hein.journals/tlcp17&div=4&start_page=1&collection=journals&set_as_cursor=21&men_tab=srchresults.
  • "Law ad Bellum in the Shadow of the 20th Century," 15(1) New York Law School Journal of International &comparative Law, 49-82 (1994). 33 pages. http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2723664.
  • Co-author, "Arms Control Treaties: Review and Revision," 26(3) Bulletin of the International Atomic Energy Agency, 37-40 (1984). 4 pages. http://ssrn.com/abstract=3615127.

Book Chapters/Policy Publications:

  • "Presentacion." In Paula Younes, La Negociación como medio de solución de controversias den el derecho internacional: El caso de Bolivia c. Chile ante la Corte Internacional de Justicia 9-10. Bogotá, D.C., Colombia: Grupo Editorial Ibáñez, 2022.
  • "Sclerotic Soft Law: Understanding the Role of the Minsk Group in the Nagorno-Karabakh Conflict." EUROPP: European Politics and Policy. London School of Economics. October 27, 2020. https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/europpblog/2020/10/27/sclerotic-soft-law-understanding-the-role-of-the-minsk-group-in-the-nagorno-karabakh-conflict/.
  • "Burying the Undertaker: The Concept of Civilization in the Hemispheric Relations of the Americas." In Latin America and International Law (Matthias Packeiser &José Manuel Barreto, eds., ____) (forthcoming).
  • "Somalia tra elezioni e petrolio, con L'Italia sfocata di Silvia Romano." L'Indro, May 27, 2020. https://www.lindro.it/somalia-tra-elezioni-e-petrolio-con-litalia-sfocata-di-silvia-romano/.
  • "Rethinking the Whiggish Narrative: The Monroe Doctrine and Condominium in Latin America/Repensando la Narrativa Whiggish: La Doctrina Monroe y el Condominio en América Latina." In Derecho internacional: investigación, estudia y enseñanza, 161-99 (Paola Andrea Acosta-Alvarado, Laura Betancur-Restrepo, and Enrique Priéto-Ríos, eds., Bogotá: Universidad del Rosario, 2020). 38 pages. https://editorial.urosario.edu.co/gpd-derecho-internacional-investigacion-estudio-y-ensenanza.html.
  • "Kenya and Somalia Row over Offshore Rights is Rooted in the Carve Up of Africa." The Conversation (Global Perspectives) (March 4, 2019). https://theconversation.com/kenya-and-somalia-row-over-offshore-rights-is-rooted-in-the-carve-up-of-africa-112627.
  • "What Migingo, The World's Tiniest Border Dispute, Tells Us About International Law." The Conversation (Global Perspectives) (December 6, 2017). https://theconversation.com/what-migingo-the-worlds-tiniest-disputed-island-tells-us-about-international-law-88536.
  • "The Big Political and Legal Stakes of a Feud Over a Tiny South American River." World Politics Review (July 18, 2017). http://www.worldpoliticsreview.com/trend-lines/22737/the-big-political-and-legal-stakes-of-a-feud-over-a-tiny-south-american-river.
  • "No Joy in Juba: South Sudan and the Search for R2P's International Community." Oxford Research Group, Division of Sustainable Security. 6 pages. (2016). https://sustainablesecurity.org/2016/08/16/no-joy-in-juba-south-sudan-and-the-r2p/; https://sustainablesecurity.org/showcase-page/articles/.
  • "The Case Concerning Military and Paramilitary Activities In and Against Nicaragua." In Historic U.S. Court Cases: An Encyclopedia (rev. ed., John W. Johnson, editor), New York: Garland Publishing, 228-232 (2001). 4 pages.
  • "El Arbitraje Venezolano de 1903: Vuelta al Futoro al Final de Siglo XX?," in II Temas de derecho internacional 1996, 105-123 (1996). 18 pages.

 

 

 


  • Christopher Robert Rossi :
    Kosovo’s Legitimacy Paradox and the Role of Emotions in International Law
    Brill|Nijhoff 2024 DOI
  • Christopher Robert Rossi :
    Shadings of Nuance: Contextualizing a "Convergence of Opinion" Regarding a River Located in the Imaginarium of the Western Mind
    Wyoming Law Review 2023 ARKIV
  • Christopher Robert Rossi :
    Water Security and Hydro-Egoism: Endogenous Hegemony and the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam
    Indiana International and Comparative Law Review 2022
  • Christopher Robert Rossi :
    Arctic Anadromy an Congested Regime Governance
    Environmental Law Reporter (ELR) 01. March 2022
  • Christopher Robert Rossi :
    "Introduccion"
    2022
  • Christopher Rossi :
    “The Widening Gyre: Legal Formalism and International Law’s Sense of Place,” 11(1) Notre Dame Journal of International and Comparative Law, 107-137 (2021). 30 pages. http://ssrn.com/abstract=3615091.
    Notre Dame Journal of International and Comparative Law 2021
  • Christopher Rossi :
    “The Blind Eye: Jus Soli and the “Pretended” Treaty of New Echota.” 9(2) American Indian Law Journal, 402-433 (2021). 31 pages. http://ssrn.com/abstract=3818266.
    American Indian Law Journal 2021
  • Christopher Robert Rossi :
    "Interstitial Space and the High Himalayan Dispute between China and India."
    Harvard International Law Journal 2021
  • Christopher Rossi :
    "Blood and Water: Diverting the Waters of the Indus River." 29(2) Minnesota Journal of International Law,103-158 (2020). 56 pages. http://ssrn.com/abstract=3510327.
    Minnesota Journal of International Law 2020
  • Christopher Rossi :
    “Game of Thrones: The Qatar Crisis and Forced Expulsion on the Arabian Peninsula.” 7(1) Penn State Journal of Law & International Affairs,1-52 (2019). 52 pages. http://ssrn.com/abstract=3262649.
    Penn State Journal of Law & International Affairs 2019
  • Christopher Robert Rossi :
    Slaves, Indians, and European Legal Formalism in 19th Century America, in Nineteenth Century America in the Society of States: Reluctant Power. Edited By Cornelia Navari, Yannis A. Stivachtis. Copyright 2024
    Routledge 2024
  • Christopher Robert Rossi :
    Kosovo's Legitimacy Paradox and the Role of Emotions in International Law, in Hague Yearbook of International Law / Annuaire de La Haye de Droit International, Vol. 35 (2022), pp. 140-178.
    Brill|Nijhoff 2024
  • Christopher Rossi :
    Remoteness Reconsidered: The Atacama Desert and International Law.
    University of Michigan Press 2021
  • Christopher Rossi :
    "Rethinking the Whiggish Narrative: The Monroe Doctrine and Condominium in Latin America/Repensando la Narrativa Whiggish: La Doctrina Monroe y el Condominio en América Latina." In Derecho internacional: investigación, estudia y enseñanza, 161-99 (Paola Andrea Acosta-Alvarado, Laura Betancur-Restrepo, and Enrique Priéto-Ríos, eds., Bogotá: Universidad del Rosario, 2020). 38 pages. https://editorial.urosario.edu.co/gpd-derecho-internacional-investigacion-estudio-y-ensenanza.html.
    2020
  • Christopher Rossi :
    Whiggish International Law: Elihu Root, the Monroe Doctrine, and International Law in the Americas
    2019
  • Christopher Robert Rossi :
    The Everchanging Monroe Doctrine and Its Entanglements
    2023
  • Christopher Robert Rossi :
    "In the Garden of Gethsemene: US-Sino Relations in the History of International Law During the Republican Period"
    2023
  • Christopher Robert Rossi :
    The Quasi-State
    2023
  • Christopher Robert Rossi :
    Remarks on the International Court of Justice Judgment on the Dispute over the Status and Use of the Waters of the Silala (Bolivia v. Chile)
    2023
  • Christopher Robert Rossi :
    Geography, cartography, spatiality and the New World
    2022
  • Christopher Robert Rossi :
    Uti Possidetis: The Odious International Legal Principle International Law Cannot Do Without"
    2022
  • Christopher Robert Rossi :
    "The Endless State of Exception: Kosovo, the Kosovo Specialist Chambers, and the Emotions of International Law"
    2022
  • Christopher Robert Rossi :
    "Deconstructing Jus Soli and the Forgotten Founders of American International Law."
    2022
  • Christopher Robert Rossi :
    "Martin Waldseemuller's Two Sixteenth Century Maps."
    2022
  • Christopher Robert Rossi :
    "Uti Possidetis: The Odious International Legal Principle International Law Cannot Do Without."
    2022
  • Christopher Rossi :
    The Galwan River Valley Confrontation between India and China. National Defense College. Abu Dhabi. United Arab Emiratis. February 1, 2021
    2021
  • Christopher Rossi :
    The Paquete Habana/Lola Case and International Humanitarian Law. National Defense College, Abu Dhabi. United Arab Emiratis. February 21, 2021
    2021
  • Christopher Rossi :
    The Concept of Civilized Nations and the Creation of the Statute of the International Court of Justice: U.S. and European Views Contrasted at the 1920 Advisory Committee of Jurists Meeting. International Studies Association Virtual Annual Conference. April 8, 2021
    2021
  • Christopher Rossi :
    Democracy Today: Challenges and Possibilities
    2021
  • Christopher Rossi :
    Martin Waldseemüller's Two Maps and the Spatial Re-imagination of the Maritime World." Norwegian Center for the Law of the Sea. UiT, The Arctic University of Norway. June 3, 2021
    2021
  • Christopher Rossi :
    Strict Adherence to All Provisions of Svalbard Treaty to Guarantee Good-Neighborly Relations. Penza News. https://penzanews.ru/en/analysis/67096-2021
    28. April 2021
  • Christopher Rossi :
    "Encroachments on the Arctic: Lessons from Elsewhere." Senja Forum. Finnsnes, Norway. September 30, 2021
    2021
  • Christopher Rossi :
    A Look at the Coming Crisis of the Indus River System. Sustainable Water Development Seminar Lecture Series. University of Iowa College of Engineering. Iowa City, Iowa. September 30, 2020
    2020
  • Christopher Rossi :
    The Revenant of Remoteness: Framing International Law's Spatial Dynamics Using the Atacama Desert as Trope
    2020
  • Christopher Rossi :
    Trouble Ahead, Trouble Behind: The Indus Waters Treaty and the Trap of Complying with its Terms. U.S. State Department Professional Development Lecture Series. Bureaus of South and Central Asian Office and Public Diplomacy. Washington, D.C. August 12, 2020
    2020
  • Christopher Rossi :
    Somalia tra elezioni e petrolio, con L'Italia sfocata di Silvia Romano." L'Indro, May 27, 2020. https://www.lindro.it/somalia-tra-elezioni-e-petrolio-con-litalia-sfocata-di-silvia-romano/
    27. May 2020
  • Christopher Rossi :
    Sclerotic Soft Law: Understanding the Role of the Minsk Group in the Nagorno-Karabakh Conflict." EUROPP: European Politics and Policy. London School of Economics. https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/europpblog/2020/10/27/sclerotic-soft-law-understanding-the-role-of-the-minsk-group-in-the-nagorno-karabakh-conflict/
    LSE EUROPP European Politics and Policy blog 2020
  • Christopher Rossi :
    Neoliberalism's Contested Encounter with International Law in the Lithium Triangle.
    2019
  • Christopher Rossi :
    Remoteness and International Law
    2019
  • Christopher Rossi :
    Neoliberalism, Chicago Boys, and the Americas, or, Why Does Landlocked Bolivia Maintain a Navy?
    2019
  • Christopher Rossi :
    Remoteness and Topophilia: An IR Research Agenda to Frame the Periphery
    2019
  • Christopher Rossi :
    Reading International Law's Historiographic Turn in Latin America: The English School, Elihu Root, and the Monroe Doctrine
    2019
  • Christopher Rossi :
    Sinking Island States
    2019
  • Christopher Rossi :
    Kenya and Somalia Row over Offshore Rights is Rooted in the Carve Up of Africa." The Conversation (Global Perspectives) (March 4, 2019). https://theconversation.com/kenya-and-somalia-row-over-offshore-rights-is-rooted-in-the-carve-up-of-africa-112627
    The Conversation Global Perspective 2019
  • Christopher Rossi :
    Topophilia and Remoteness: The Atacama Desert's Contributions to the Study of International Law in the Americas
    2019
  • Christopher Rossi :
    Secession
    2018
  • Christopher Rossi :
    Whiggish International Law: Reading International Law's Historiographic Turn in Latin America--Elihu Root and the Monroe Doctrine
    2018
  • Christopher Rossi :
    Finnmarkssendiga https://radio.nrk.no/serie/distriktsprogram-finnmark/sesong/201803/DKFI01004418
    01. March 2018
  • Christopher Rossi :
    The Emerging Arctic, Asian-Pacific Interests, and the EurAsia Initiative
    2018
  • Christopher Rossi :
    The Migingo Dispute Between Uganda and Kenya. What the World's Tiniest Island Tells Us About International Law and Relations
    2018

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