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7 Cambridge Int'l L.J. 1 (2018)

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Cambridge International Law Journal, Vol. 7 No. 1, pp. 1 3


Editorial


1 INTRODUCTION

Welcome to Volume 7(1) of the Cambridge International Law Journal (CILJ). Since the
transition from its predecessor, the Cambridge Journal of International and Comparative
Law, the CILJ has continued to provide a platform for scholars, both young and well-
established, to provide high-quality research in the field of international law. It was in
this spirit that the Journal decided to partner with Edward Elgar Publishing whose simi-
lar commitment to innovative scholarship has allowed us to expand our readership. We
are therefore grateful for the invaluable advice and support of Luke Adams, Ben Booth,
Marina Bowgen, Katie Smith, Kate Pearce and Nicolas Wilson throughout the publica-
tion process. We also wish to thank our predecessor Editors-in-Chief, Niall O'Connor
and Lan Nguyen, who laid the foundations for this blossoming partnership and whose
steady guidance throughout the year has been indispensable.
   As ever, the issue would not exist in its finalised form without the assistance and ded-
ication of several people. First among these are the authors whose contributions appear
in the following pages. It was a pleasure to engage with and be given responsibility over
such insightful scholarship, and we are grateful for their timely cooperation at the review
and copy-editing stages. Our Managing Editors, Maayan Menashe, Kim Willey, Trina
Malone, Orfeas Chasapis Tassinis, Lufza Lefo Soares Pereira, and their teams of editors
have been tireless in their efforts and dedication to the Journal. We are also grateful for
the continued support of the Lauterpacht Centre for International Law, its Director and
our Honorary Editor-in-Chief, Professor Eyal Benvenisti, the Cambridge Centre for
European Legal Studies, the Cambridge Law Faculty and the members of our
Academic Review Board for their continued guidance.


2 OVERVIEW OF VOLUME 7(1)

International law and lawyers live in troubling times. It is therefore apt that this issue's
flagship article would deal with the relationship between international law, history and
time. We are delighted that Deborah Whitehall's article entitled 'A Time-Map for
International Law' appears in this issue, after having been delivered as the
Cambridge International Law Journal-Lauterpacht Centre for International Law
Annual Lecture in November 2017. Drawing on political theorist Hannah Arendt and
her work on historical time, Whitehall poses three 'time-maps' for international law
which reconceptualise the connection between historical and legal time. Taking the
1945 Potsdam Conference as a fixed point, Whitehall uses the notions of 'time-gap',
'time-sequence' and 'historical cycle' to rethink the temporal undulations surrounding
this seemingly disruptive and 'new' international legal moment. Whitehall reimagines
the international lawyer's relationship to historical time and opens up the possibility
for the international lawyer to become a 'legal cartographer' who can operate in the pre-
sent, break with the past, and envisage alternative futures.
   The second article, which is no less path-breaking for its innovative approach,
comes from Clara Chapdelaine-Feliciati. Employing a deconstructive methodology,
the author conducts a semiotic analysis of the UN Convention on the Rights of the


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