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Dr. James Summers
Lecturer in Law, Director of Postgraduate Studies
Degree: LL.B, LL.M, LL.D
Associated research centres and groups: Human Rights Forum, International, European and Comparative Law
Current Teaching
Undergraduate
LAW 257 International Law I
Postgraduate
LLM 220 Rights of Peoples
LLM 221 The Law of International Organisations and Institutions
LLM 236 International Criminal Law (2 Seminars)
Doctoral Supervision
Foluke Ipinyomi
John Pearson
Wang Linzhu
Sana Al Sarghali
Research Interests
Books
James Summers (ed.), Kosovo: A Precedent? Implications for Statehood, Self-determination and Minority Rights (Brill, Leiden, 2011).
James Summers, Peoples and International Law: How the Right of Self-Determination and Nationalism Shape a Contemporary Law of Nations (Brill, Leiden, 2007). SECOND EDITION FORTHCOMING IN 2012.
Websites
James Summers, "Self-Determination" in Tony Carty (ed.) Oxford Bibliographies Online: International Law (Oxford University Press, New York, Forthcoming) http://oxfordbibliographiesonline.com
Articles and Book Chapters
James Summers, "The Internal and External Aspects of Self-Determination Reconsidered" in Duncan French (ed.) Statehood, Self-determination and Minorities: Reconciling Tradition and Modernity in International Law (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, FORTHCOMING).
James Summers, "Kosovo: From Yugoslav Province to Disputed Independence" inJamesSummers, (eds.) Kosovo: A Precedent? Implications for Self-determination, Minority Rights and Statehood (Brill, Leiden,2011).
James Summers, "Russia and Competing Spheres of Influence: The Case of Georgia, Abkhazia and South Ossetia" in Matthew C. Happold (ed.) International Law in a Multipolar World (Routledge, Oxford, Forthcoming 2011)
James Summers, "Relativising Sovereignty: Remedial Secession and Humanitarian Intervention in International Law" 6 St. Anthony's International Review (2010) pp. 16-36.
James Summers, "The Right of Self-Defence: Against Whom?" 8 New Zealand Journal of Jurisprudence (2005) pp. 33-50. James J.
James Summers, "The Right of Self-Determination and Nationalism in International Law" 12 International Journal on Minority and Group Rights (2005) pp. 325-354.
James J. Summers, "The Status of Self-Determination in International Law: A Question of Legal Significance or Political Importance?" 14 Finnish Yearbook of International Law (2004) pp. 271-293.
James Summers, "The Rhetoric and Practice of Self-Determination: A Right of All Peoples or Political Institutions" 73 Nordic Journal of International Law (2004) pp. 323-361.
Recent Book Reviews
Summers, James, "Review of Steven Wheatley, Democracy, Minorities and International Law" 16 International journal of Minority and Group Rights (2009) pp. 266-268.
James Summers, "Review of Zelim A. Skurbaty, Beyond a One-Dimensional State: An Emerging Right to Autonomy?" International Journal of Minority and Group Rights (2005) pp. 127-9.
James Summers, "Review of Marta Johanson, Self-Determination and Borders" 52 Netherlands International Law Review (2005) pp. 137-142.
James J. Summers, "Review of Karen Knop, Diversity and Self-Determination in International Law" 14 Finnish Yearbook of International Law (2004) pp. 358-364.
Upcoming Conference Papers
"Legality and Legitimacy in the Recognition of Kosovo, Abkhazia and South Ossetia" to be presented at the SLS and BIICL Conference, Charles Close House, Russell Square, 30 April 2012.
Recent Conference Papers
"Kosovo: Legal Status and Comparisons with the Post-Soviet Republics" (Paper Delivered at Conference on 'After Kosovo: Legal Issues of Autonomy and Secession in the Commonwealth of Independent States', Ludwig-Maximilian's University, Munich, 16-17 February 2012).
"Why does the Right of Self-determination have Internal and External Aspects?" (Paper to be Delivered at the Lauterpacht Centre for International Law, University of Cambridge, 28 October 2011).
"Palestine Self-Determination and a State of Aspiration" (Paper to be Delivered at Conference on The EU, International Organisations and Crisis Management in the Aftermath of Recent 'Revolutions' in North Africa and the the Middle East, Liverpool John Moore's University, 16 September 2011).
"The Concept of Internal and External Self-determination" (Paper Delivered for ILA British Branch Spring Conference, States, Peoples and Minorities: Whither the Nation in International Law, University of Sheffield, 27-28 April 2011.
"Barriers and Facts on the Ground and the Self-determination of Palestine" (Paper delivered for Economic, Social and Cultural Rights and the Right to Self-determination in the Occupied Palestinian Territories, University of Lancaster, 14 April 2011.
Media Availability
James Summers is available to talk on any issue of international law, especially relating to issues of statehood and independence, the rights of peoples and self-determination.
Interview on Kazakhstan's Caspio Net TV (4 April 2012).
Potential Doctoral Proposals
Any field of international law
Career details
Dr. James Summers lectures in international law and human rights. He completed his doctorate at the University of Helsinki and has taught international law at the universities of Liverpool, Hull and Zambia. He lives in Lancaster with his wife and three children.
Editorial Roles
I am a review editor for the Princeton Encylopedia of Self-determination.
Eprints Publications Repository and Bibliographic Database
James Summers has 4 selected publication records listed on this webpage. Use links to access abstracts and full text where available. View all records to sort by date, type and title. For all ePrints records go to http://eprints.lancs.ac.uk
Summers, James (2007) Peoples and International Law: How Nationalism and Self Determination Shape a Contemporary Law of Nations. Martinus Nijhoff Publishers/ Brill Academic. ISBN 9789004154919
Summers, James (2005) The Right to Self Determination and Nationalism in International Law. International Journal on Minority and Group Rights, 12 (4). pp. 325-354. ISSN 15718115
Summers, James (2005) The right of Self-Defence: Against Whom? Yearbook of New Zealand Jurispurdence Special Issue, 8 (1). pp. 33-50. ISSN 1174-4243
Summers, James (2004) The Rhetoric and Practice of Self Determination. A Right of all Peoples or Political Institutions? Nordic Journal of International Law, 73 (3). pp. 325-363. ISSN ISSN 0902-7351, Online ISSN: 1571-8107
Associated Keywords: Human rights, International law, Law, Nation, National identities, Self-determination
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Contact Details
Tel: 01524 594511
Room: Bowland North, C92
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