In this week's episode Ntina Tzouvala and Douglas Guilfoyle discuss Douglas' article "Litigation as Statecraft: Small States and the Law of the Sea" and the wider project on legal statecraft it forms a part of. That, and board games! Recommendations:

Douglas Guilfoyle, Litigation as Statecraft: Small States and the Law of the Sea https://academic.oup.com/bybil/advance-article-abstract/doi/10.1093/bybil/brad009/7186911;

Small States, Legal Argument, and International Disputes (NUS CIL symposium), https://cil.nus.edu.sg/blog/symposia/small-states-legal-argument-and-international-disputes/;

Isaac B. Kardon, China’s Law of the Sea, https://yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300256475/chinas-law-of-the-sea/;

Congyan Cai, The Rise of China and International Law, https://global.oup.com/academic/product/the-rise-of-china-and-international-law-9780190073602; and

Jill Goldenzeil, Lawfare between Russia and Ukraine, https://www.cornelllawreview.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/Goldenziel-online-essay-final.pdf.

Music: Sam Barsh, Oils of Au Lait