Dr John Reynolds

Biography
John joined the School of Law in Maynooth in 2014. Prior to this he taught at the European Inter-University Centre in Venice, and the Irish Centre for Human Rights at the University of Galway, where he held the National University of Ireland EJ Phelan Fellowship in International Law. John holds PhD and LLM degrees in international law from NUI Galway.
John's research focuses on questions of international law in relation to colonialism, racism/apartheid, emergency, and political economy. His work is informed by and engages with the insights of Third World Approaches to International Law (TWAIL). John's book on Empire, Emergency and International Law (Cambridge University Press, 2017) was awarded the Kevin Boyle Book Prize for Outstanding Legal Scholarship. His scholarship appears in journals such as the European Journal of International Law, Third World Quarterly, the Journal of International Criminal Justice, the Journal of Conflict & Security Law, the UCLA Law Review, the American Journal of International Law, and the Palestine Yearbook of International Law. He is a founding editor of the Third World Approaches to International Law Review journal and website. John's writing also appears in a range of other popular publications including Jacobin, Tribune, Monthly Review, Africa is a Country, Counterpunch, Jadaliyya, Dublin Review of Books, The Phoenix, and The Irish Times.
John is Programme Director of Maynooth's LL.M in International Justice. He teaches modules on the Department of Law’s LL.M and LL.B programmes on: public international law; race, racism & law; world trade law; economic, social & cultural rights. John's completed and current Ph.D research students span projects across international law and legal theory including: civil war and peace agreements; the politics and prevention of genocide; European migration and border policies; radical left social movement engagement with law and human rights; and civil society projects in settler colonial contexts. He is happy to receive Ph.D proposals in areas of international law, imperialism, rights, and related fields.
John works with various activist groups, social movements and civil society organisations. He was appointed to Ireland’s Department of Foreign Affairs Civil Society Standing Committee on Human Rights in 2015.
John's research focuses on questions of international law in relation to colonialism, racism/apartheid, emergency, and political economy. His work is informed by and engages with the insights of Third World Approaches to International Law (TWAIL). John's book on Empire, Emergency and International Law (Cambridge University Press, 2017) was awarded the Kevin Boyle Book Prize for Outstanding Legal Scholarship. His scholarship appears in journals such as the European Journal of International Law, Third World Quarterly, the Journal of International Criminal Justice, the Journal of Conflict & Security Law, the UCLA Law Review, the American Journal of International Law, and the Palestine Yearbook of International Law. He is a founding editor of the Third World Approaches to International Law Review journal and website. John's writing also appears in a range of other popular publications including Jacobin, Tribune, Monthly Review, Africa is a Country, Counterpunch, Jadaliyya, Dublin Review of Books, The Phoenix, and The Irish Times.
John is Programme Director of Maynooth's LL.M in International Justice. He teaches modules on the Department of Law’s LL.M and LL.B programmes on: public international law; race, racism & law; world trade law; economic, social & cultural rights. John's completed and current Ph.D research students span projects across international law and legal theory including: civil war and peace agreements; the politics and prevention of genocide; European migration and border policies; radical left social movement engagement with law and human rights; and civil society projects in settler colonial contexts. He is happy to receive Ph.D proposals in areas of international law, imperialism, rights, and related fields.
John works with various activist groups, social movements and civil society organisations. He was appointed to Ireland’s Department of Foreign Affairs Civil Society Standing Committee on Human Rights in 2015.
Research Interests
My research focuses on questions of international law as they intersect with colonialism, racism/apartheid, emergency, and political economy. My work is informed by and engages with the insights of Third World Approaches to International Law (TWAIL) and anti-colonial traditions and theory.
My major research project over recent years examined the evolution and operation of emergency legal doctrines in colonial, settler-colonial and post-colonial contexts, and the influence of colonial states of emergency on international law. My book on Empire, Emergency and International Law was published by Cambridge University Press in 2017, and was awarded the Kevin Boyle Book Prize for Outstanding Legal Scholarship.
Another core focus of my research is the international legal and political dynamics in Palestine, where I have written on questions of self-determination, laws of war and occupation, international criminal justice, race/apartheid, and solidarity, intellectual traditions and academic freedom. My work also has an ongoing interest in questions of praxis and the use of law, rights and legal discourse by social and political movements.
I am currently working on two main ongoing projects. One is on apartheid and international law in Palestine, and its implications in terms of rights, race, settler-colonialism and decolonisation. The other is on the intersections of international law, imperialism and racial capitalism in managing global migration and maintaining global apartheid.
My major research project over recent years examined the evolution and operation of emergency legal doctrines in colonial, settler-colonial and post-colonial contexts, and the influence of colonial states of emergency on international law. My book on Empire, Emergency and International Law was published by Cambridge University Press in 2017, and was awarded the Kevin Boyle Book Prize for Outstanding Legal Scholarship.
Another core focus of my research is the international legal and political dynamics in Palestine, where I have written on questions of self-determination, laws of war and occupation, international criminal justice, race/apartheid, and solidarity, intellectual traditions and academic freedom. My work also has an ongoing interest in questions of praxis and the use of law, rights and legal discourse by social and political movements.
I am currently working on two main ongoing projects. One is on apartheid and international law in Palestine, and its implications in terms of rights, race, settler-colonialism and decolonisation. The other is on the intersections of international law, imperialism and racial capitalism in managing global migration and maintaining global apartheid.
Research Projects
Book
Year | Publication | |
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2018 | John Reynolds, Usha Natarajan, Amar Bhatia & Sujith Xavier (2018) Third World Approaches to International Law: On Praxis and the Intellectual. London: Routledge. | |
2017 | John Reynolds (2017) Empire, Emergency and International Law. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. [Link] [DOI] | |
2012 | Max du Plessis, Fatmeh el-Ajou, Victor Kattan, Michael Kearney, John Reynolds, Rina Rosenberg, Iain Scobbie & Virginia Tilley (2012) Beyond Occupation: Colonialism, Apartheid & International Law in the Occupied Palestinian Territories. London: Pluto Press. |
Peer Reviewed Journal
Year | Publication | |
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2023 | Noura Erakat, Darryl Li & John Reynolds (2023) 'Race, Palestine, and International Law'. American Journal of International Law, 117 . [DOI] | |
2021 | Reynolds, J (2021) 'Emergency and Migration, Race and the Nation'. UCLA Law Review, 67 :1768-1798. | |
2021 | John Reynolds (2021) 'A Hundred Years of Settler Colonialism: History, Law, Horizons Beyond'. Palestine Yearbook of International Law, 22 :203-216. | |
2021 | John Reynolds & Noura Erakat (2021) 'We Charge Apartheid? Palestine and the International Criminal Court'. Third World Approaches to International Law Review, (33). | |
2020 | John Reynolds (2020) 'Fortress Europe, Global Migration & the Global Pandemic'. American Journal of International Law, 114 . [DOI] [Full-Text] | |
2020 | Usha Natarajan, Laura Betancur-Restrepo, Amar Bhatia, John Reynolds, Ntina Tzouvala, Sujith Xavier (2020) 'Third World Approaches to International Law Review: A Journal for a Community'. Third World Approaches to International Law Review, 1 . [Full-Text] | |
2020 | Colin Coulter & John Reynolds (2020) 'Good times for a change? Ireland since the general election'. Soundings, (75). [Full-Text] | |
2019 | John Reynolds (2019) 'Decolonising the Chagos Islands?'. Nigerian Yearbook of International Law, 2 . [Full-Text] | |
2018 | John Reynolds (2018) 'The Life of the Law in Palestine'. International Dialogue A Multidisciplinary Journal of World Affairs, 8 :47-59. [Full-Text] | |
2017 | Reynolds J. (2017) 'Repressive inclusion'. Journal of Legal Pluralism & Unofficial Law, 49 (3):268-293. [DOI] [Full-Text] | |
2016 | Reynolds J. (2016) 'Disrupting civility: amateur intellectuals, international lawyers and TWAIL as praxis'. Third World Quarterly, 37 (11):2098-2118. [DOI] [Full-Text] | |
2016 | John Reynolds & Sujith Xavier (2016) '“The Dark Corners of the World”: TWAIL and International Criminal Justice'. Journal of International Criminal Justice, 14 (4):959-983. [Full-Text] | |
2016 | Usha Natarajan, John Reynolds, Amar Bhatia & Sujith Xavier (2016) 'Placing TWAIL Scholarship and Praxis'. Windsor Yearbook of Access to Justice, 33 (3). [Full-Text] | |
2016 | Usha Natarajan, John Reynolds, Amar Bhatia & Sujith Xavier (2016) 'Third World Approaches to International Law: On Praxis and the Intellectual'. Third World Quarterly, 37 (11):1946-1956. | |
2016 | Asad Kiyani, John Reynolds & Sujith Xavier (2016) 'Third World Approaches to International Criminal Law'. Journal of International Criminal Justice, 14 (4):915-920. | |
2015 | John Reynolds (2015) 'Anti-Colonial Legalities: Paradigms, Tactics & Strategy'. Palestine Yearbook of International Law, 18 :8-52. [Full-Text] | |
2013 | John Reynolds (2013) 'Of Humanity and the Law'. 9 Journal of International Law & International Relations . [Full-Text] | |
2013 | John Reynolds & John Dugard (2013) 'Apartheid, International Law, and the Occupied Palestinian Territory'. 24(3) European Journal of International Law 867-913 . | |
2012 | John Reynolds (2012) 'The Political Economy of States of Emergency'. 14(1) Oregon Review of International Law 85-130 . [Full-Text] | |
2010 | John Reynolds (2010) 'The Use of Force in a Colonial Present, and the Goldstone Report’s Blind Spot'. 16 Palestine Yearbook of International Law 55-77 . [Full-Text] | |
2010 | John Reynolds & Shane Darcy (2010) 'An Enduring Occupation: The Status of the Gaza Strip from the Perspective of International Humanitarian Law'. 15(2) Journal of Conflict and Security Law 211-243 . [Full-Text] | |
2010 | John Reynolds (2010) 'The Long Shadow of Colonialism: The Origins of the Doctrine of Emergency in International Human Rights Law'. 6(5) Osgoode Comparative Research in Law and Political Economy 1-51 . [Full-Text] | |
2009 | John Reynolds (2009) 'International Law from Below'. 15 Palestine Yearbook of International Law 433-438 . |
Book Chapter
Other Journal
Year | Publication | |
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2022 | Noura Erakat & John Reynolds (2022) 'Understanding Apartheid' Jewish Currents, Summer 2022 issue, . | |
2021 | John Reynolds (2021) 'Neoliberalism’s Brand of Justice' Critical Legal Thinking, July 2021, . | |
2021 | John Reynolds (2021) 'Discrimination against Palestinians constitutes apartheid' The Irish Times, 27 April 2021, . | |
2021 | Oisin Suttle & John Reynolds (2021) 'Domestic law makers far better placed than CETA’s investment courts to judge policy choices' Business Post, February 2021, . [Link] | |
2021 | John Reynolds (2021) 'The Comprehensive Trade & Economic Agreement (CETA) and the Battle for the Future' Business & Human Rights in Ireland, January 2021, . | |
2020 | John Reynolds (2020) 'Diego Maradona, anti-imperial symbol' Africa is a Country, December 2020, . | |
2020 | John Reynolds & Colin Coulter (2020) 'Ireland’s New Government Puts a Green Face on the Old Order' Jacobin, July 2020, . | |
2020 | John Reynolds (2020) 'The Politics of the Coronavirus Conjuncture in Ireland' Monthly Review, May 2020, . | |
2020 | John Reynolds (2020) 'How Coronavirus Propped Up Ireland’s Establishment' Tribune, May 2020, . | |
2020 | John Reynolds (2020) 'TWAILR Mixtape: I Sing the Song of the Colony' Third World Approaches to International Law Review, March 2020, . | |
2019 | John Reynolds (2019) 'Law is Politics' Dublin Review of Books, November 2019, 116 . | |
2017 | John Reynolds (2017) 'Routine Emergency in the Jagged Time of Catastrophe' The Nakba Files, March 2017, . | |
2017 | John Reynolds (2017) 'Israel and the A-Word' Counterpunch, March 2017, . | |
2017 | John Reynolds (2017) 'Questioning the state of Israel: decolonisation not demonisation' The Irish Times, 18 January 2017, . | |
2016 | John Reynolds (2016) 'Challenging the Nakba Through International Law?' The Nakba Files, July 2016, . | |
2015 | John Reynolds (2015) 'Odious Debt Politics' Human Rights in Ireland, 9 February 2015, . | |
2015 | John Reynolds (2015) 'On Throwing Stones: Quick Thoughts on Recent Amendments to the Israeli Penal Code' Jadaliyya, 25 July 2015, . | |
2014 | John Reynolds (2014) 'An Entrenched but Unsustainable Colonial Logic' The Journal.ie, 18 August 2014, . | |
2014 | John Reynolds (2014) 'Socio-Economic Rights & Budget Analysis: Some Notes on Available Resources, “Progressivity” and Non-Retrogression' Human Rights in Ireland, 16 October 2014, . | |
2013 | John Reynolds (2013) 'Apartheid in Occupied Palestine: A Rejoinder to Yaffa Zilbershats' EJIL: talk!, 2 October 2013, . | |
2011 | John Reynolds (2011) 'Bertrand Russell’s Legacy' Jadaliyya, 2 November 2011, . | |
2011 | John Reynolds (2011) 'The Spectre of South Africa' Jadaliyya, October 2011, . | |
2011 | John Reynolds (2011) 'Palestinian Statehood: To Recognise, or Not?' Politico, September 2011, . | |
2011 | John Reynolds (2011) 'Emergency, Governmentality, and the Arab Spring' Jadaliyya, 10 August 2011, . | |
2010 | John Reynolds (2010) 'The Trials and Travel Bans of Shawan J' Human Rights in Ireland, 24 November 2010, . | |
2009 | John Reynolds (2009) 'Five Years after the ICJ Advisory Opinion on the Wall: Barriers to Enforcement' Adalah Newsletter, July 2009, . | |
2009 | John Reynolds (2009) 'Seeking to Uphold Third State Responsibility: The Case of Al-Haq v. UK' al-Majdal, 41 . |
Published Report
Conference Contribution
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Teaching Interests
Current modules:
* International Law [LW257]
* Race, Racism & Law [LW498]
* World Trade Law [LW636]
* Economic, Social & Cultural Rights [LW646]
Previous modules:
* Public International Law [LW650]
* International Human Rights [LW635]
* International Criminal Law [LW616]
* Anti-racism [AN215/216]
* Good & Evil [TH252]
* Law & Society [LW261]