Laws of encounter

How should we understand struggles for land and resources within nation-states? What does international law have to do with this? Specifically, how does international law shape how we think about protests over mining or infrastructure projects, and whose law should resolve these disputes? In other words, how does international law get us to think about whose law counts as law?

This is an article written by Sundhya Pahuja and published in the London Review of International Law. Get a link to the full article on our publications page.