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118 AJIL Unbound 1 (2024)

handle is hein.journals/ajilunbo118 and id is 1 raw text is: doi:10.1017/aju.2023.54 INTRODUCTION TO THE SYMPOSIUM ON INTERNATIONAL LAWS PUBLIC AND PRIVATE Karen Engle, * Fleur Johns, ** and Annelise Riles*** This symposium explores the interrelation and juxtaposition of private and public registers in the logics and practices of private international law, public international law, and foreign relations law. It is inspired by the schol- arly work of a brilliant scholar and much-missed friend: Karen Knop, Professor and Cecil A. Wright Chair at the University of Toronto Faculty of Law (1960-2022). The symposium draws from and engages with Karen's work in various ways. It also provides an opportunity to traverse scholarly ground covered extensively in the American Journal of International Law (AJIL), since its 1907 establishment, surrounding relations among private international law, public international law, and foreign rela- tions law. The essay authors explore these perennial themes while making fresh use of the distinctive features of AJIL Unbound. As readers well know, AJIL Unbound provides for the online and open-access publication of short, original essays of international legal scholarship written in a readable style intended to be accessible to policy- makers, practitioners, transdisciplinary scholars, and students around the world. It seeks to broaden and diversify AJIL scholarly exchanges by introducing new interlocutors, insights, and modes of analysis. Karen was a critical force in the creation of AJIL Unbound. She was chair of the founding editorial committee of AJIL Unbound from its launch in 2014 until 2017, and a member of its editorial committee from 2017 until 2021. She was instrumental in devising and refining the AJIL Unbound model: an online journal that combined the time- liness and accessibility of a blog with the seriousness and integrity of a peer reviewed scholarly journal. The extraor- dinary reach of AJIL Unbound today, reflected in both the diversity of its contributors and its global readership, owes a great deal to the publication's early imprinting with Karen's distinctive editorial style and approach to schol- arly life and work. Karen had a unique gift for, and commitment to, engaging with scholarly voices of immense variety. She gave serious and unwavering attention to pluralism, power, and inequalities in the international legal field, and she championed scholars working outside established canons and intellectual geographies. Her unique combination of empathy, curiosity, and rigorous attention to argumentative detail inevitably drew out what was new, significant, and challenging in any author's intervention. The fruits of her generous approach to scholarly mentorship and commitment to collegiality are apparent everywhere in the pages of the journal. Karen was an exceptional scholar of public and private international law, and a groundbreaking feminist theo- rist. To appreciate how original and generative Karen's many writings were with respect to the themes of this sym- posium, we begin this introduction by surveying some relevant parts of the international legal scholarly terrain prior to her contributions. Specifically, we explore the work of several influential scholars examining the interaction * Minerva House Drysdale Regents Chair in Law and Co-director ofthe Bernard and Audre Rapoport Centerfor Human Rjghts and Justice, University of Texas School of Law, United States. We gratefuly acknowledge the mani fold contributions of our AJIL Unbound editor, Professor Rjan Liss, who himselfwas a student of Karen Knop, to each ofthe pieces in this symposium. Ryan s brlliant andgenero us editorial eye made this already remarkable editorial experience a truejoy. ** Professor, Faculty of Law & Justice, University of New South Wale, Sydney, Australia. *** Professor of Law and Associate Provost for Global Affair, Northwestern Universiy, United States. © The Author(s) 2024. Published by Cambridge University Press for The American Society of International Law. This is an Open 1 Access article, distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution licence (http://creativecornmons.org/licenses/by/ 4.0/), which permits unrestricted re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

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