In this episode Ntina Tzouvala and Douglas Guilfoyle discuss one of the great misunderstood cases of international law: The Lotus Case. What is 'the Lotus principle'? Does the Lotus case even stand for it? How did the case come about and what was really at stake between Turkey and France?

Douglas and Ntina recommend reading:

Douglas Guilfoyle, "SS Lotus (France v Turkey) (1927)" in Landmark Cases in Public International Law. https://www.bloomsbury.com/au/landmark-cases-in-public-international-law-9781509918782/

Umut Özsu's article, "De-territorializing and Re-territorializing Lotus: Sovereignty and Systematicity as Dialectical Nation-Building in Early Republican Turkey," published in the Leiden Journal of International Law. https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/leiden-journal-of-international-law/article/deterritorializing-and-reterritorializing-lotus-sovereignty-and-systematicity-as-dialectical-nationbuilding-in-early-republican-turkey/B4A1BF31CE88EFC6BA9B2758D8869750

"The Lotus Principle in ICJ Jurisprudence: Was the Ship Ever Afloat?" by Hugh Handeyside. https://repository.law.umich.edu/mjil/vol29/iss1/3/

"Letting Lotus Bloom" by An Hertogen, published in the European Journal of International Law.

Music: Sam Barsh, Oils of Au Lait