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Samantha Besson

Samantha Besson

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Law

D-Index
31
Citations
4216
World Ranking
253
National Ranking
1

Overview

Samantha Besson is affiliated with the Collège de France in France and specializes in Social Sciences, with a focus on Political Science and International Relations, Law, Sociology and Political Science, Strategy and Management, and Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law.

The main research topics covered by Samantha Besson include:

  • International Law and Human Rights
  • Global Peace and Security Dynamics
  • International Arbitration and Investment Law
  • Human Rights and Development
  • Environmental law and policy
  • Political Philosophy and Ethics
  • Judicial and Constitutional Studies

Recent papers authored by Samantha Besson are:

  • "Due Diligence in International Law," 2023, Special Editions
  • "Anticipation under the Human Right to Science: Concepts, Stakes and Specificities," 2023, SSRN Electronic Journal
  • "The 'Human Right to Science' qua right to participate in science," 2023, The International Journal of Human Rights
  • "Sovereign States and their International Institutional Order," 2020, Jus Cogens

Frequent publication venues for Samantha Besson include:

  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • International Organizations Law Review
  • The International Journal of Human Rights
  • Collège de France eBooks
  • Cambridge University Press eBooks

Coauthors who have collaborated most often with Samantha Besson are:

  • José Luis Martí
  • Édith Heard
  • Vinciane Pirenne-Delforge
  • Thomas Römer
  • Katja Achermann

Regarding books, Samantha Besson has published several titles through notable academic publishers. Books published by the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique include "Due Diligence in International Law" (2024), "Recueil: Droit international public" (2024), and "La science, un droit de l'Homme?" (2024).

Books published by Cambridge University Press are "Consenting to International Law" (2023) and "Theories of International Responsibility Law" (2022).

Best Publications

  • The Philosophy of International Law

    Samantha Besson;John Tasioulas

  • The Morality of Conflict: Reasonable Disagreement and the Law

    Samantha Besson

  • Deliberative Democracy and its Discontents

    Jose Luis Marti;Samantha Besson

  • Making Sense of Human Rights

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  • Theorizing the Sources of International Law

    Samantha Besson

  • Enforcing the Child's Right to Know Her Origins: Contrasting Approaches Under the Convention on the Rights of the Child and the European Convention on Human Rights

    Samantha Besson

  • The Principle of Non-Discrimination in the Convention on the Rights of the Child

    Samantha Besson

  • The Extraterritoriality of the European Convention on Human Rights: Why Human Rights Depend on Jurisdiction and What Jurisdiction Amounts to

    Samantha Besson

  • Gender Discrimination under EU and ECHR Law: Never Shall the Twain Meet?

    Samantha Besson

  • The European Union and Human Rights: Towards A Post-National Human Rights Institution?

    Samantha Besson

  • Legitimate actors of international law-making: towards a theory of international democratic representation

    Samantha Besson;José Luis Martí

  • Legal Republicanism: National and International Perspectives

    Samantha Besson;José Luis Martí

  • Deliberative demoi-cracy in the European Union. Towards the deterritorialization of democracy

    Samantha Besson

  • State Consent and Disagreement in International Law-Making. Dissolving the Paradox

    Samantha Besson

  • The UN Convention on the Rights of the Child: a commentary

    John Tobin;Philip Alston;David Archard;Damon Barrett

  • European Legal Pluralism after Kadi

    Samantha Besson

  • Subsidiarity in International Human Rights Law—What is Subsidiary about Human Rights?

    Samantha Besson

  • Human rights and democracy in a global context: decoupling and recoupling

    Samantha Besson

  • Oxford Handbook on the Sources of International Law

    Jean D'Aspremont;Samantha Besson

  • Toward European Citizenship

    Samantha Besson;André Utzinger

  • The Theory and Practice of Legislation

    Imer Flores;Koen Van Aeken;Richard Posner;Wojciech Cyrul

  • Sovereignty, International Law and Democracy

    Samantha Besson

  • Introduction: Future Challenges of European Citizenship—Facing a Wide-Open Pandora's Box

    Samantha Besson;André Utzinger

  • Ruling the World?: Whose Constitution(s)? International Law, Constitutionalism, and Democracy

    Samantha Besson

  • The Epistemic Conception of Deliberative Democracy Defended Reasons, Rightness and Equal Political Autonomy

    Jose Luis Marti;Samantha Besson

Frequent Co-Authors

Richard A. Posner
Richard A. Posner University of Chicago

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