ARTICLE: Niccolò RIDI & Thomas SCHULTZ, "Distantly Reading the Recueil des Cours: Authority and Authorities in the History of the Hague Academy of International Law" (European Journal of International Law XXXVI (2025), nr. 1 (Feb), 247-262

 

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First paragraph:

The Hague Academy recently turned 100 years old. What has its role been as a site of authority in international law? This study undertakes a large-scale quantitative analysis of its corpus of lectures to answer that question. We apply computational and scientometric methods and use citation data and network analysis techniques to analyse patterns and trends across the entire Recueil des cours de l’Academie de droit international de la Haye, thus ‘distantly reading’ them in the tradition of Franco Moretti.1

Read the article here: DOI 10.1093/ejil/chaf019.