Called to the Bar: International Law over Drinks

• 33. What everyone gets wrong about the Caroline "Case"

  This week we continue our "what does everyone get wrong about classic case X" series. And today we're looking at the overquoted, under-authoritative, and deeply de-historicized "Caroline Case" (or, more accurately, the "Caroline Affair") with regular co-host Imogen Saunders. Digressions include a plea for accuracy, critical thinking skills and ... Elon Musk? Recommendations: Craig Forcese, "Destroying the Caroline: The Frontier Raid That Reshaped the Right to War" https://irwinlaw.com/product/destroying-the-caroline/ "'We will make mistakes': Musk pressed on claim $50m of condoms sent to Gaza" (The Guardian) https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/video/2025/feb/12/musk-says-he-will-make-mistakes-and-that-he-double-checks-with-trump-video Music: Sam Barsh, Oils of Au Lait

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• 32 Group Therapy: So Long and Thanks for all the International Law

  In this week's episode, in light of 48 hours of the news cycle, Juliette McIntyre convenes the Called to the Bar team - Tamsin Phillipa Paige, Ntina Tzouvala, Imogen Saunders and Douglas Guilfoyle - to ask: does international law have a future? And if so, what does it look like without the US as the guarantor of international order? Grab a drink and settle in. It's going to be a bumpy global order transition. Recommendations include: Tamsin Paige, "Petulant and Contrary: Approaches by the Permanent Five Members of the UN Security Council to the Concept of 'threat to the peace' under Article 39 of the UN Charter" (Chapter 1), https://brill.com/display/title/54194?language=en Frank Moorhouse, "Dark Palace" (on the end of the League of Nations) https://www.penguin.com.au/books/dark-palace-9780143790914 What Douglas was wearing: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:6224ogbnhmjhtpjoteynx4hk/post/3ljiyhoop342r Music: Sam Barsh, Oils of Au Lait

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• 31. International law in practice (or is it practise?)

  What does the practise of international law look like at the day to day level? What is it like to be an international lawyer? This week Tamsin Phillipa Paige speaks to a panel of international lawyers with experience in the private and public sectors: Dr Sarah McCosker (Lexbridge Lawyers); CJ McKenzie (Office of International Law, Australian Attorney General's Department) and Commodore David Letts (Royal Australian Navy and University of Wollongong). All guests are speaking in their personal capacity and their views should not be attributed to their employers or clients, past or present. Recommendations include: Rob Mclaughlin, "‘Giving’ Operational Legal Advice: Context and Method" (2011) 50 Military Law and the Law of War Review 99 (paywall) https://www.elgaronline.com/view/journals/mllwr/50/1/article-p99.xml Music: Sam Barsh, Oils of Au Lait

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• 30. What the Aukus?

  What is AUKUS - the trilateral security partnership between Australia, the United Kingdom, and the United States? What is it meant to do – beyond replace Australia’s aging submarine fleet – and what are the international law issues and implications? This week Douglas Guilfoyle talks all things AUKUS with Rob McLaughlin (University of Wollongong), Monique Cormier (Monash University) and Natalia Jevglevskaja (University of New South Wales). Recommendations Trevor Findlay, That Sinking Feeling: The AUKUS Submarines and the Nonproliferation Regime https://www.internationalaffairs.org.au/australianoutlook/that-sinking-feeling-the-aukus-submarines-and-the-nonproliferation-regime/ William Greenwalt and Tob Corben, AUKUS Enablers? Assessing Defence Trade Control Reforms in Australia and the United States (United States Studies Centre, 2024), 8, https://www.ussc.edu.au/aukus-assessing-defence-trade-control-reforms-in-australia-and-the-united-states

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• 29. Judges Behaving Badly? Plagiarism and Ethics at International Courts

  In this week's episode Juliette McIntyre, Mike Becker (Trinity College Dublin) and Kyra Wigard (Utrecht University) discusses recent allegations of plagiarism at the International Court of Justice, its implications for public perceptions of the institution, and more widely. What ethical standards bind ICJ judges, or the judges of other international tribunals? Are such questions really new? What is the role of codes of ethics for international courts? Recommendations: Gleider Hernández, The International Court of Justice and the Judicial Function, https://global.oup.com/academic/product/the-international-court-of-justice-and-the-judicial-function-9780199646630 Music: Sam Barsh, Oils of Au Lait

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