Assistant Professor in Global Law, University of Edinburgh.
International and global law, institutional alternatives, law and political economy, geopolitics, de-dollarisation.
Francisco J. Quintana
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I am deeply honoured to have received the John Jackson Prize from the Journal of International Economic Law (JIEL) for my article ‘Dollar Dominance, De-Dollarization, and International Law’.
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Today, a spring scouting report on some of the hottest new LPE and LPE-adjacent articles.
Congrats to all the authors on such wonderful placements 🎉
Andrew Chubb’s EJIL article asks whether international law helps drive confrontation. His study of China’s South China Sea policy shows that UNCLOS has not only structured legal argument but has also helped contribute to interstate maritime conflicts.
Fordham Law Prof. Harlan Cohen (@harlangcohen.bsky.social) appeared on the Michigan Journal of International Law podcast's first episode, discussing how shifts in global power lead to shifts in the international order—potentially reopening interpretative fights over the meaning of security & more.
A selection of worthy additions to your “important PDFs” folder.
De-Dollarization Mainstreaming
Today, in the NYT, we read that: 'There is a desperate desire in the world to escape the clutches of the dollar-denominated system'.
www.nytimes.com/2026/04/24/b...
'For scholars to give up the vocation they’ve spent around 10 years training for, often at the expense of acquiring any other work experience, is a sign that something is truly rotten in the state of UK academia.'
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A thought for those redesigning universities:
'Any question about the future economics of AI begins with identifying what becomes scarce.'
Education is a sector 'where the value of the service is likely to be increasingly linked to the human providing them'.
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I'm delighted to be serving on the Program Committee for the ASIL Abroad Meeting on 'International Legal Order at a Crossroads'.
Buenos Aires is a great location and a reminder that legal debates should not be confined to their usual centres.
Join us!
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Abstract. Could international law contribute to interstate maritime conflicts? A close tracing of the People’s Republic of China’s (PRC) policies in the So
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The International Legal Order at a Crossroads: Rupture, Resilience, and Renewal
The international legal order is facing a moment of profound uncertainty. Armed...
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The economics of structural change and the post-commodity future of work
'[T]he task facing a mature society is to adapt its methods of financing universities to sustaining the purposes for which such institutions exist – rather than, as at present, the other way round'.
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Francisco J. Quintana
The problems with Britain’s universities are systemic and deep-rooted, not just local or contingent. Yet political and...
