Project overview
Project overview
The Double Standards Project aims to understand how the uneven application of legal rules shapes legitimacy, power, and the future of the international legal order. A dedicated website was launched in 2026 at www.doublestandardsproject.org - the project description and all the latest news can be found there.
Timeline
The project 'Double Standards and International Law' began in late 2023. Since then, several workshops and panels have been held in various parts of the world. An edited volume bringing together the project's findings on double standards is scheduled for publication in 2027. A handful of blog contributions was published in 2025 following the conference at Freie Universität Berlin.
Late 2027: Edited volume, under contract with Oxford University Press.
October 2026: Conference report from Geneva.
A copy can be downloaded here.
2026 March: Closed workshop in Toronto, Canada
See the event summary.
2025 May: Conference at the Graduate Institute in Geneva, Switzerland.
See the event page and official event summary.
2025 April: Panel at the 2025 annual conference of the American Society of International Law in Washington D.C., United States.
An audio recording of the panel is available.
A write up of the event is available in the ASIL Proceedings.
2025 February-March: Online symposium @Afronomicslaw.
The introductory post is available here.
2024 November: Workshop in Ottawa, Canada
A report based on the workshop is available.
2024 October: Panel at the 2024 International Law Weekend in New York, United States.
The conference overview can be found here.
2024 July: Conference at the Free University in Berlin, Germany.
See the event page and official event report.