Keywords
Human rights, International law, Law, Nation, National identities, Self-determination
Research Areas
Law
Dr James Summers
Lecturer
Bowland North
Lancaster University
Bailrigg
Lancaster
United Kingdom
LA1 4YN
Email: Email Hidden
Tel: +44 1524 594511
Affiliations
Human Rights Forum
CILHR Centre for International Law and Human Rights
Centre for Law and Society
PhD Supervision Interests
Any field of international law
Current Teaching
Undergraduate
LAW 257 International Law I
LAW 323 International Mooting (Jessup International Moot Court Competition)
Postgraduate
LLM 220 Rights of Peoples, Minorities and Indigenous Peoples
LLM 221 The Law of International Organisations and Institutions
LLM 236 International Criminal Law
Doctoral Supervision
John Pearson
Wang Linzhu
Sana Al Sarghali
Abdulmohsen Alothman
Pataramon Satalak
Profile
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 have been a review editor for the Princeton Encylopedia of Self-determination.
I am an editor for Frontiers of Legal Research
I have written the self-determination entry for Oxford Bibliographies Online.
Additional Information
Recent Conference Papers
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.
In Press
Peoples and international law: how nationalism and self-determination shape a contemporary law of nations
Summers, J. 2013 2nd ed. Martinus Nijhoff.
Research output: Book/Report/Proceedings › Book
The Internal and External Aspects of Self-Determination Reconsidered
Summers, J. 2013 Statehood and Self-Determination: Reconciling Tradition and Modernity in International Law. French, D. (ed.). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press
Research output: Contribution in Book/Report/Proceedings › Chapter
2011
Kosovo: a precedent? the declaration of independence, the advisory opinion and implications for statehood, self-determination and minority rights.
Summers, J. (ed.) 2011 Leiden: Brill.
Research output: Book/Report/Proceedings › Book
Kosovo: from Yugoslav province to disputed independence.
Summers, J. 2011 Kosovo: A Precedent? The Declaration of Independence, the Advisory Opinion and Implications for Statehood, Self-determination and Minority Rights. Summers, J. (ed.). Leiden: Brill, p. 3-51 49 p.
Research output: Contribution in Book/Report/Proceedings › Chapter
Russia and competing spheres of influence: the case of Georgia, Abkhazia and South Ossetia.
Summers, J. 2011 International Law in a Multipolar World. Happold, M. (ed.). Oxford: Routledge
Research output: Contribution in Book/Report/Proceedings › Chapter
2010
Relativising sovereignty: remedial secession and humanitarian intervention in international law.
Summers, J. 05/2010 In: St Anthony's International Review. 6, 1, p. 16-36, 21 p.
Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article
2009
Review of Steven Wheatley, Democracy, minorities and international law
Summers, J. 2009 In: International Journal on Minority and Group Rights. 16, 2, p. 266-268, 3 p.
Research output: Contribution to journal › Book/Film/Article review
2007
Peoples and International Law: How Nationalism and Self Determination Shape a Contemporary Law of Nations.
Summers, J. 2007 Martinus Nijhoff Publishers/ Brill Academic. 464 p.
Research output: Book/Report/Proceedings › Book
2005
Review of Marta Johanson, Self-determination and borders
Summers, J. 05/2005 In: Netherlands International Law Review. 52, 1, p. 137-143, 7 p.
Research output: Contribution to journal › Book/Film/Article review
Review of Zelim A. Skurbaty, Beyond a one-dimensional state: an emerging right to autonomy?
Summers, J. 2005 In: International Journal on Minority and Group Rights. 12, 1, p. 117-119, 3 p.
Research output: Contribution to journal › Book/Film/Article review
The right of Self-Defence: Against Whom?
Summers, J. 1/12/2005 In: Yearbook of New Zealand Jurispurdence Special Issue. 8, 1, p. 33-50, 18 p.
Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article
The Right to Self Determination and Nationalism in International Law.
Summers, J. 1/09/2005 In: International Journal on Minority and Group Rights. 12, 4, p. 325-354, 30 p.
Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article
2004
Review of Karen Knop, Diversity and self-determination in international law
Summers, J. 2004 In: Finnish Yearbook of International Law. 14, p. 358-364, 7 p.
Research output: Contribution to journal › Book/Film/Article review
The Status of Self-determination in International Law: A Question of Legal Significance or Political Importance?
Summers, J. 2004 In: Finnish Yearbook of International Law. 14, p. 271-293, 23 p.
Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article
The Rhetoric and Practice of Self Determination. A Right of all Peoples or Political Institutions?
Summers, J. 10/2004 In: Nordic Journal of International Law. 73, 3, p. 325-363, 39 p.
Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article
Human rights and boundaries
01/03/2013 →
The project will consider how human rights addresses the question of boundaries: the way in which human rights are applicable to bounded communities; how human rights constructs bounded identities of ... Read more»
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