Profile

Ingo Venzke is Associate Professor at the Department of International and European Law and at the Amsterdam Center for International Law. His research forms part of the project on 'the architecture of postnational rulemaking' and his teaching includes LL.M. courses on International Trade Law and International Dispute Settlement.

Ingo has been a Visiting Senior Fellow at the National University of Singapore (NUS), a Hauser Research Scholar at New York University (NYU) and a Visiting Scholar at the Cegla Center for the Interdisciplinary Research of the Law, Tel Aviv University. He wrote his PhD at the University of Frankfurt while working as a Research Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law in Heidelberg (MPIL).

He is an editor of the Leiden Journal of International Law.

Research

Ingo's work at the moment focuses on the many roles that international courts play in global governance. More specifically, he examines how they contest and accommodate authority in a normative pluriverse.

Ingo also contributes to the research cluster on International Public Authority (anchored at the MPIL) and to the research project on ASEAN Integration Trough Law (based at NUS).

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Some representative publications

• In Whose Name? A Public Law Theory of International Adjudication (together with Armin von Bogdandy, translated by Thomas Dunlap and revised by the authors, OUP 2014). See sample Chapter 1: 'Agenda and Objectives'.
• In wessen Namen? Internationale Gerichte in Zeiten globalen Regierens (together with Armin von Bogdandy, Suhrkamp 2014).

• How Interpretation Makes International Law: On Semantic Change and Normative Twists (OUP 2012) (In Paperback with a new Preface 2014). Winner of the 2014 Book Prize of the European Society of International Law.

• Contemporary Theories and International Law-Making. In Research Handbook on the Theory And Practice of International Law-Making (Catherine Brölmann & Yannick Radi eds., Elgar 2014).

• Between power and persuasion: on international institutions' authority in making law. Transnational Legal Theory, 4(3), (2013).
• On the functions of international courts: an appraisal in light of their burgeoning public authority. Leiden Journal of International Law, 26(1) (2013) (together with Armin von Bogdandy).
• In whose name? An investigation of international courts' public authority and its democratic justification. European Journal of International Law, 23(1), 7-41 (2012) (together with Armin von Bogdandy).
• Ethos, ethics and morality in international relations. In The Max Planck encyclopedia of public international law (Rüdiger Wolfrum ed., Oxford University Press 2012).
• The role of international courts as interpreters and developers of the law: working out the jurisgenerative practice of interpretation. Loyola of Los Angeles International & Comparative Law Review, 34(1), 99-131 (2011).
• Legal Contestation about 'Enemy Combatants': On the Exercise of Power in Legal Interpretation. Journal of International Law & International Relations, 5(1), 155-184 (2009).
• International bureaucracies in a political science perspective: agency, authority and international institutional law. German law journal, 9(11), 1401-1428 (2008).

• How Interpretation Makes International Law: On Semantic Change and Normative Twists (OUP 2012) (In Paperback with a new Preface 2014). Winner of the 2014 Book Prize of the European Society of International Law.

• Reviewed by Jan Klabbers in 24 European Journal of International Law 718-722 (2013); Ralph Christensen in 68 JuristenZeitung 994-995 (2013); Irina Buga in British Yearbook of International Law 190-192 (2013); Gelijn Molier in 60 Netherlands International Law Review 503-507 (2013); Cristina Hoss in 74 Heidelberg Journal of International Law 402-408 (2014); Joshua Paine in 31 Australian Yearbook of International Law (2014). Review essays by Maria Panezi 'Of Tortoises and Hares: Exploring the Roles of International Administrations and Tribunals in the Development of International Law', 4 Transnational Legal Theory 283-300 (2013); Chris Thomale, Sprache und Recht [Language and Law], 99 Archives for Philosophy of Law and Social Philosophy 420-432 (2013).

• In wessen Namen? Internationale Gerichte in Zeiten globalen Regierens (together with Armin von Bogdandy, Suhrkamp 2014).

• Reviewed by Elisabeth von Thadden, ‘Die Zukunft des Rechts’, 4 Die Zeit 2014 44; Annette Wilmes, ‘Die Macht der Gerichte’, Deutschlandfunk, Andruck – Das Magazin für politische Literatur, 20.01.2014; Berthold Merkle, 'Im Namen der Völker', Neue Züricher Zeitung, 27.03.2014; Rolf Gröschner, “Im Namen der Völker und Bürger”, 69 JuristenZeitung 674-678 (2014).
• In Whose Name? A Public Law Theory of International Adjudication (together with Armin von Bogdandy, translated by Thomas Dunlap and revised by the authors, OUP 2014). See here for sample Chapter 1: 'Agenda and Objectives'. 

• Armin von Bogdandy and Ingo Venzke (eds), International Judicial Lawmaking: On Public Authority and Democratic Legitimation in Global Governance (Springer, Heidelberg 2012).
• Also see the Special Issue of 12 German Law Journal 979-1370 (2011).
• Reviewed by Cameron Miles in 2 Cambridge Journal of Int’l & Comp. Law 671-677 (2013). Review essay by Giacinto della Cananea, Themis and Dike in the International Arena, 12 German Law Journal 2059-2070 (2011).
•  See Review Essay in 12 German Law Journal 2059-2070 (2011).

• In nome di chi? Giurisdizione internazionale e teoria del discorso (Collana 'Habermasiana', Trauben, Turin 2010), (together with Armin von Bogdandy, translation by Enrico Daly).  [Trauben]

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