Professor Akbar Rasulov

  • Professor of International Law (Law)

telephone: 01413305543
email: Akbar.Rasulov@glasgow.ac.uk

Room 313, School of Law, Stair Building, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, G12 8QQ

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ORCID iDhttps://orcid.org/0000-0003-0692-7766

Biography

Akbar joined the Uzbek bar in 2003. He holds degrees from the University of World Economy and Diplomacy (Uzbekistan), the University of Essex, the University of Hull, and Harvard Law School. He is a former member of the Executive Council of the Asian Society of International Law. He likes green tea and The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. 

Research interests

Akbar teaches on a variety of international law courses on the LLB and the LLM programmes.

His main research interests lie in the areas of international economic law and general international law, with a particular interest in law and development, history of international legal thought, economic coercion, and North-South tensions. Sometimes he also tries to moonlight as a legal theorist. When that happens, he usually tends to be drawn to discourse analysis, semiotics, and critical legal studies. The rest of the time he just sticks to what he likes to believe is law and economics.

 

 

Publications

Selected publications

Rasulov, A. (2017) What is critique? Towards a sociology of disciplinary heterodoxy in contemporary international law. In: d'Aspremont, J., Gazzini, T., Nollkamper, A. and Werner, W. (eds.) International Law as a Profession. Cambridge University Press: Cambridge, pp. 189-221. ISBN 9781107140394

Rasulov, A. (2016) From Apology to Utopia and The Inner Life of International Law. Leiden Journal of International Law, 29(3), pp. 641-666. (doi: 10.1017/S0922156516000248)

Rasulov, A. (2015) The horizontal mechanism initiative in the WTO: the proceduralist turn and its discontents. In: Herrmann, C., Krajewski, M. and Terhechte, J.P. (eds.) European Yearbook of International Economic Law 2015. Springer, pp. 61-86. ISBN 9783662467473

All publications

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Number of items: 38.

2023

Lythgoe, G. and Rasulov, A. (2023) The ideas of prosperity and solidarity in European international law. In: van Aaken, A., d’Argent, P., Mälksoo, L. and Vasel, J. J. (eds.) The Oxford Handbook of International Law in Europe. Oxford University Press. (Accepted for Publication)

Rasulov, A. (2023) The political economy of international adjudication. In: Ruiz Fabri, H. (ed.) Max Planck Encyclopedia of International Procedural Law. Oxford University Press. (Accepted for Publication)

Rasulov, A. (2023) International legal universalism: A reactionary ideology of disciplinary self-aggrandizement. In: d’Aspremont, J. (ed.) International Law and Universality. Oxford University Press. (In Press)

2021

Rasulov, A. (2021) The discipline as a field of struggle: the politics and the economy of knowledge production in international law. In: Bianchi, A. and Hirsch, M. (eds.) International Law’s Invisible Frames: Social Cognition and Knowledge Production in International Legal Processes. Oxford University Press: Oxford, pp. 180-199. ISBN 9780192847539 (doi: 10.1093/oso/9780192847539.003.0011)

Rasulov, A. (2021) The hidden theology of international legal positivism. In: Slotte, P. and Haskell, J. D. (eds.) Christianity and International Law: an Introduction. Cambridge University Press: Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY, pp. 415-460. ISBN 9781108474559 (doi: 10.1017/9781108565646.019)

Rasulov, A. (2021) ‘From the wells of disappointment’: the curious case of the international law of democracy and the politics of international legal scholarship. European Journal of International Law, 32(1), pp. 17-47. (doi: 10.1093/ejil/chab026)

Desautels-Stein, J. and Rasulov, A. (2021) Deep Cuts: four critiques of legal ideology. Yale Journal of Law and the Humanities, 31(2), pp. 435-519.

Rasulov, A. , Geiss, R. and Hilf, M. (2021) Most-favoured-nation clause. In: Peters, A. (ed.) Max Planck Encyclopedia of Public International Law. Oxford University Press.

2020

Haskell, J. and Rasulov, A. (Eds.) (2020) New Voices and New Perspectives in International Economic Law. Series: European Yearbook of International Economic Law. Springer. ISBN 9783030325114

Rasulov, A. (2020) Introduction: the discipline of international economic law at a crossroads. In: Haskell, J. and Rasulov, A. (eds.) New Voices and New Perspectives in International Economic Law. Series: European Yearbook of International Economic Law. Springer, pp. 1-36. ISBN 9783030325114 (doi: 10.1007/978-3-030-32512-1_1)

2019

Rasulov, A. (2019) Imperialism. In: d'Aspremont, J. and Singh, S. (eds.) Concepts for International Law: Contributions to Disciplinary Thought. Series: Elgar original reference series. Edward Elgar, pp. 422-446. ISBN 9781783474677

Rasulov, A. (2019) Utopians. In: Singh, S. and d'Aspremont, J. (eds.) Concepts for International Law: Contributions to Disciplinary Thought. Edward Elgar: Cheltenham, pp. 879-899. ISBN 9781783474677

2018

Rasulov, A. (2018) A Marxism for international law: a new agenda. European Journal of International Law, 29(2), pp. 631-655. (doi: 10.1093/ejil/chy033)

Haskell, J. and Rasulov, A. (2018) International law and the turn to political economy. Leiden Journal of International Law, 31(2), pp. 243-250. (doi: 10.1017/S0922156518000092)

Rasulov, A. (2018) Экстрадиция в современном международном праве [Extradition in Contemporary International Law]. In: Islamkhodjaev, K. S. (ed.) International Criminal Law. Adolat: Tashkent, Uzbekistan, pp. 227-246. (In Press)

2017

Rasulov, A. (2017) Central Asia as an object of Orientalist narratives in the Age of Bandung. In: Eslava, L., Fakhri, M. and Nesiah, V. (eds.) Bandung, Global History and International Law: Critical Pasts and Pending Futures. Cambridge University Press: Cambridge, pp. 215-231. ISBN 9781107123991 (doi: 10.1017/9781316414880.015)

Rasulov, A. (2017) What is critique? Towards a sociology of disciplinary heterodoxy in contemporary international law. In: d'Aspremont, J., Gazzini, T., Nollkamper, A. and Werner, W. (eds.) International Law as a Profession. Cambridge University Press: Cambridge, pp. 189-221. ISBN 9781107140394

2016

Rasulov, A. (2016) From Apology to Utopia and The Inner Life of International Law. Leiden Journal of International Law, 29(3), pp. 641-666. (doi: 10.1017/S0922156516000248)

2015

Rasulov, A. (2015) Of Althusser, international law, and debts, or what I kearned from Duncan Kennedy. Jindal Law Journal, 1(1),

Rasulov, A. (2015) The empty circularity of regulatory takings: the legacy of a legal-realist critique for a 21st century context. In: Mattei, U. and Haskell, J. D. (eds.) Research Handbook on Political Economy and Law. Series: Research handbooks on globalisation and the law series. Edward Elgar: Cheltenham, pp. 371-399. ISBN 9781781005347

Rasulov, A. (2015) The horizontal mechanism initiative in the WTO: the proceduralist turn and its discontents. In: Herrmann, C., Krajewski, M. and Terhechte, J.P. (eds.) European Yearbook of International Economic Law 2015. Springer, pp. 61-86. ISBN 9783662467473

2014

Rasulov, A. (2014) CLS and Marxism: a history of an affair. Transnational Legal Theory, 5(4), pp. 622-639. (doi: 10.5235/20414005.5.4.622)

Rasulov, A. (2014) Historicizing international trade law. Social and Legal Studies, 23(3), pp. 436-453. (doi: 10.1177/0964663914533048)

Rasulov, A. (2014) Theorizing treaties: the consequences of the contractual analogy. In: Tams, C. J., Tzanakopoulos, A. and Zimmerman, A. (eds.) Research Handbook on the Law of Treaties. Edward Elgar: Cheltenham, pp. 74-122. ISBN 9780857934772

Rasulov, A. (2014) World trade law after Neo-liberalism. Social and Legal Studies, 23(3), pp. 403-407. (doi: 10.1177/0964663914533048)

Rasulov, A. (2014) Central Asia and the globalisation of the contemporary legal consciousness. Law and Critique, 25(2), pp. 163-185. (doi: 10.1007/s10978-014-9132-x)

2013

Rasulov, A. (2013) The doctrine of sources in the discourse of the permanent court of international justice. In: Fitzmaurice, M. and Tams, C. (eds.) The Legacies of the Permanent Court of International Justice. Series: Queen Mary studies in international law (13). Martinus Nijhoff Publishers: Leiden, The Netherlands, pp. 271-317. ISBN 9789004244931

2012

Rasulov, A. (2012) New approaches to international law: images of a genealogy. In: Beneyto, J.M. and Kennedy, D. (eds.) New Approaches to International Law: The European and the American Experiences. TMC Asser-Springer, pp. 151-191. ISBN 9789067048781

2011

Rasulov, A. (2011) Review of Thomas Skouteris, 'The Notion of Progress in International Law Discourse'. Edinburgh Law Review, 15(1), pp. 158-160. (doi: 10.3366/elr.2011.0026)[Book Review]

Rasulov, A. (2011) The life and times of the modern law of reservations: the doctrinal genealogy of general comment No. 24. Austrian Review of International and European Law, 14(1), pp. 103-214. (doi: 10.1163/15736512-90000048)

2010

Rasulov, A. (2010) "The nameless rapture of the struggle": towards a Marxist class-theoretic approach to international law. In: Klabbers, J. (ed.) Finnish Yearbook of International Law. Hart: Oxford, pp. 243-294. ISBN 9781849460415

Rasulov, A. (2010) Writing about empire: remarks on the logic of a discourse. Leiden Journal of International Law, 23(2), pp. 449-471. (doi: 10.1017/S0922156510000142)[Book Review]

2008

Rasulov, A. (2008) Review of Christian Brütsch and Dirk Lehmkuhl (eds), 'Law and Legalization in Transition Relations'. Law and Politics Book Review, 18(1), pp. 20-29. [Book Review]

2007

Rasulov, A. (2007) Review of Andreas Laursen, 'Changing International Law to Meet New Challenges: Interpretation, Modification and the Use of Force'. Law and Politics Book Review, 17(3), pp. 263-272. [Book Review]

2006

Rasulov, A. (2006) From Apology to Utopia: the Structure of the International Legal Argument by Martti Koskenniemi: Review. Law and Politics Book Review, 16, pp. 583-591.

Rasulov, A. (2006) International law and the poststructuralist challenge. Leiden Journal of International Law, 19(3), pp. 799-827. (doi: 10.1017/S0922156506003591)

2003

Rasulov, A. (2003) Revisiting State Succession to Humanitarian Treaties: Is There a Case for Automaticity? European Journal of International Law, 14(1), pp. 141-170.

2002

Rasulov, A. (2002) Criminals as Refugees: the 'Balancing Exercise' and Article 1F(b) of the Refugee Convention. Georgetown Immigration Law Journal, 16(4), pp. 815-834.

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Number of items: 38.

Articles

Rasulov, A. (2021) ‘From the wells of disappointment’: the curious case of the international law of democracy and the politics of international legal scholarship. European Journal of International Law, 32(1), pp. 17-47. (doi: 10.1093/ejil/chab026)

Desautels-Stein, J. and Rasulov, A. (2021) Deep Cuts: four critiques of legal ideology. Yale Journal of Law and the Humanities, 31(2), pp. 435-519.

Rasulov, A. (2018) A Marxism for international law: a new agenda. European Journal of International Law, 29(2), pp. 631-655. (doi: 10.1093/ejil/chy033)

Haskell, J. and Rasulov, A. (2018) International law and the turn to political economy. Leiden Journal of International Law, 31(2), pp. 243-250. (doi: 10.1017/S0922156518000092)

Rasulov, A. (2016) From Apology to Utopia and The Inner Life of International Law. Leiden Journal of International Law, 29(3), pp. 641-666. (doi: 10.1017/S0922156516000248)

Rasulov, A. (2015) Of Althusser, international law, and debts, or what I kearned from Duncan Kennedy. Jindal Law Journal, 1(1),

Rasulov, A. (2014) CLS and Marxism: a history of an affair. Transnational Legal Theory, 5(4), pp. 622-639. (doi: 10.5235/20414005.5.4.622)

Rasulov, A. (2014) Historicizing international trade law. Social and Legal Studies, 23(3), pp. 436-453. (doi: 10.1177/0964663914533048)

Rasulov, A. (2014) World trade law after Neo-liberalism. Social and Legal Studies, 23(3), pp. 403-407. (doi: 10.1177/0964663914533048)

Rasulov, A. (2014) Central Asia and the globalisation of the contemporary legal consciousness. Law and Critique, 25(2), pp. 163-185. (doi: 10.1007/s10978-014-9132-x)

Rasulov, A. (2011) The life and times of the modern law of reservations: the doctrinal genealogy of general comment No. 24. Austrian Review of International and European Law, 14(1), pp. 103-214. (doi: 10.1163/15736512-90000048)

Rasulov, A. (2006) From Apology to Utopia: the Structure of the International Legal Argument by Martti Koskenniemi: Review. Law and Politics Book Review, 16, pp. 583-591.

Rasulov, A. (2006) International law and the poststructuralist challenge. Leiden Journal of International Law, 19(3), pp. 799-827. (doi: 10.1017/S0922156506003591)

Rasulov, A. (2003) Revisiting State Succession to Humanitarian Treaties: Is There a Case for Automaticity? European Journal of International Law, 14(1), pp. 141-170.

Rasulov, A. (2002) Criminals as Refugees: the 'Balancing Exercise' and Article 1F(b) of the Refugee Convention. Georgetown Immigration Law Journal, 16(4), pp. 815-834.

Book Sections

Lythgoe, G. and Rasulov, A. (2023) The ideas of prosperity and solidarity in European international law. In: van Aaken, A., d’Argent, P., Mälksoo, L. and Vasel, J. J. (eds.) The Oxford Handbook of International Law in Europe. Oxford University Press. (Accepted for Publication)

Rasulov, A. (2023) The political economy of international adjudication. In: Ruiz Fabri, H. (ed.) Max Planck Encyclopedia of International Procedural Law. Oxford University Press. (Accepted for Publication)

Rasulov, A. (2023) International legal universalism: A reactionary ideology of disciplinary self-aggrandizement. In: d’Aspremont, J. (ed.) International Law and Universality. Oxford University Press. (In Press)

Rasulov, A. (2021) The discipline as a field of struggle: the politics and the economy of knowledge production in international law. In: Bianchi, A. and Hirsch, M. (eds.) International Law’s Invisible Frames: Social Cognition and Knowledge Production in International Legal Processes. Oxford University Press: Oxford, pp. 180-199. ISBN 9780192847539 (doi: 10.1093/oso/9780192847539.003.0011)

Rasulov, A. (2021) The hidden theology of international legal positivism. In: Slotte, P. and Haskell, J. D. (eds.) Christianity and International Law: an Introduction. Cambridge University Press: Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY, pp. 415-460. ISBN 9781108474559 (doi: 10.1017/9781108565646.019)

Rasulov, A. , Geiss, R. and Hilf, M. (2021) Most-favoured-nation clause. In: Peters, A. (ed.) Max Planck Encyclopedia of Public International Law. Oxford University Press.

Rasulov, A. (2020) Introduction: the discipline of international economic law at a crossroads. In: Haskell, J. and Rasulov, A. (eds.) New Voices and New Perspectives in International Economic Law. Series: European Yearbook of International Economic Law. Springer, pp. 1-36. ISBN 9783030325114 (doi: 10.1007/978-3-030-32512-1_1)

Rasulov, A. (2019) Imperialism. In: d'Aspremont, J. and Singh, S. (eds.) Concepts for International Law: Contributions to Disciplinary Thought. Series: Elgar original reference series. Edward Elgar, pp. 422-446. ISBN 9781783474677

Rasulov, A. (2019) Utopians. In: Singh, S. and d'Aspremont, J. (eds.) Concepts for International Law: Contributions to Disciplinary Thought. Edward Elgar: Cheltenham, pp. 879-899. ISBN 9781783474677

Rasulov, A. (2018) Экстрадиция в современном международном праве [Extradition in Contemporary International Law]. In: Islamkhodjaev, K. S. (ed.) International Criminal Law. Adolat: Tashkent, Uzbekistan, pp. 227-246. (In Press)

Rasulov, A. (2017) Central Asia as an object of Orientalist narratives in the Age of Bandung. In: Eslava, L., Fakhri, M. and Nesiah, V. (eds.) Bandung, Global History and International Law: Critical Pasts and Pending Futures. Cambridge University Press: Cambridge, pp. 215-231. ISBN 9781107123991 (doi: 10.1017/9781316414880.015)

Rasulov, A. (2017) What is critique? Towards a sociology of disciplinary heterodoxy in contemporary international law. In: d'Aspremont, J., Gazzini, T., Nollkamper, A. and Werner, W. (eds.) International Law as a Profession. Cambridge University Press: Cambridge, pp. 189-221. ISBN 9781107140394

Rasulov, A. (2015) The empty circularity of regulatory takings: the legacy of a legal-realist critique for a 21st century context. In: Mattei, U. and Haskell, J. D. (eds.) Research Handbook on Political Economy and Law. Series: Research handbooks on globalisation and the law series. Edward Elgar: Cheltenham, pp. 371-399. ISBN 9781781005347

Rasulov, A. (2015) The horizontal mechanism initiative in the WTO: the proceduralist turn and its discontents. In: Herrmann, C., Krajewski, M. and Terhechte, J.P. (eds.) European Yearbook of International Economic Law 2015. Springer, pp. 61-86. ISBN 9783662467473

Rasulov, A. (2014) Theorizing treaties: the consequences of the contractual analogy. In: Tams, C. J., Tzanakopoulos, A. and Zimmerman, A. (eds.) Research Handbook on the Law of Treaties. Edward Elgar: Cheltenham, pp. 74-122. ISBN 9780857934772

Rasulov, A. (2013) The doctrine of sources in the discourse of the permanent court of international justice. In: Fitzmaurice, M. and Tams, C. (eds.) The Legacies of the Permanent Court of International Justice. Series: Queen Mary studies in international law (13). Martinus Nijhoff Publishers: Leiden, The Netherlands, pp. 271-317. ISBN 9789004244931

Rasulov, A. (2012) New approaches to international law: images of a genealogy. In: Beneyto, J.M. and Kennedy, D. (eds.) New Approaches to International Law: The European and the American Experiences. TMC Asser-Springer, pp. 151-191. ISBN 9789067048781

Rasulov, A. (2010) "The nameless rapture of the struggle": towards a Marxist class-theoretic approach to international law. In: Klabbers, J. (ed.) Finnish Yearbook of International Law. Hart: Oxford, pp. 243-294. ISBN 9781849460415

Book Reviews

Rasulov, A. (2011) Review of Thomas Skouteris, 'The Notion of Progress in International Law Discourse'. Edinburgh Law Review, 15(1), pp. 158-160. (doi: 10.3366/elr.2011.0026)[Book Review]

Rasulov, A. (2010) Writing about empire: remarks on the logic of a discourse. Leiden Journal of International Law, 23(2), pp. 449-471. (doi: 10.1017/S0922156510000142)[Book Review]

Rasulov, A. (2008) Review of Christian Brütsch and Dirk Lehmkuhl (eds), 'Law and Legalization in Transition Relations'. Law and Politics Book Review, 18(1), pp. 20-29. [Book Review]

Rasulov, A. (2007) Review of Andreas Laursen, 'Changing International Law to Meet New Challenges: Interpretation, Modification and the Use of Force'. Law and Politics Book Review, 17(3), pp. 263-272. [Book Review]

Edited Books

Haskell, J. and Rasulov, A. (Eds.) (2020) New Voices and New Perspectives in International Economic Law. Series: European Yearbook of International Economic Law. Springer. ISBN 9783030325114

This list was generated on Sat Sep 23 08:19:15 2023 BST.

Grants

Dr Rasulov has received the following grants:

2014
Grant issuing body: Institute for Global Law and Policy, Harvard Law School.
Grant type: collaborative research grant. Sum: £3000. Period: 2014- ongoing. Project title: “International Legal Structuralism”.
Percentage of ownership: 25%. Further details: www.harvardiglp.org/network-news/iglp-collaborative-research-grants/

This research initiative will re-examine on the works of international legal scholarship influenced by “structuralism” from the 1980s (David Kennedy’s International Legal Structures and Martti Koskenniemi’s From Apology to Utopia) forward. The group will meet in NYU in the fall of 2014 to explore the current application of legal structuralism in International legal scholarship, now a generation later. The group aims to produce an edited volume for publication.

2012
Grant issuing body: Institute for Global Law and Policy, Harvard Law School. Grant type: collaborative research grant. Sum: 5,000 USD. Period: 2012 – ongoing. Project title: “Pursuing your Enemies in the South: International Law and the War against Crime and Terror”. Percentage of ownership: 20%. 

2012

Grant issuing body: Institute for Global Law and Policy, Harvard Law School. Grant type: collaborative research grant. Sum: 5,000 USD. Period: 2012- ongoing. Project title: “Before and After Method: Histories and Sociologies of International Law”. Percentage of ownership: 25%. 

Supervision

Research Students Under Supervision

  • Fuhrmann, Rémi
    Civil war in international humanitarian law : between inclusion and exclusion
  • Mak, Ho Wang
    Sovereign Debt Regulation: Towards a Unified International Law
  • Piperides, Andreas
    Countering Hegemony: A Marxist Approach to the Relationship Between International Humanitarian Law and International Human Rights Law
  • Sutthent, Phakanadh
    The Use of Science in the WTO Regime relating to Sanitary and Phytosanitary Regulations
  • Ercümen, Ferhat - 'Use of Foreign Continental Shelf and Exclusive Economic Zone for Military Activities'
  • McBain, GC - 'Peace Through Institutionalisation: The Forgotten Role of the League of Nations'
  • Wahab, Norhayati Raihan Binti - 'Reviewing the Role of Investor-State Dispute Mechanism in Malaysia's International Investment Treaties'
  • Wang, Xi - 'Legal Issues Related to State Responsibility Faced by State-owned Enterprises in the Investment Process of the Belt and Road Initiative'

Former PhD students of Professor Rasulov include:

  • Belle, Alexandre - 'Public International Law and the protection of sovereign debt restructuration processes'

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