Dr Ntina Tzouvala

Dr Ntina Tzouvala

Associate Professor
Law & Justice
School of Global & Public Law

Dr Ntina Tzouvala joined UNSW in January 2025. Prior to this, she was an associate professor at the ANU College of Law. Her work focuses on the history, theory and political economy of international law. She is especially interested in historical materialism, deconstruction, feminist and queer legal theory. Her first monograph, Capitalism as Civilisation: A History of International Law, was published by Cambridge University Press in late 2020. Her book was awarded the 2022 ASIL Certificate of Merit for a preeminent contribution to creative scholarship and the Australian Legal Research Award (ALRA) in the book category. In addition, it was shortlisted for the Deutscher Prize and was awarded a honourable mention in the context of the 2021 Sussex Prize in International Theory. Her work has also appeared in leading international law journals, including the European Journal of International Law, the Leiden Journal of International Law and the Journal of International Economic Law.

 

  • Books | 2020
    Tzouvala N, 2020, Capitalism As Civilisation A History of International Law, Cambridge University Press
  • Journal articles | 2025
    Tzouvala N, 2025, 'Crude Capitalism: Oil, Corporate Power, and the Making of the World Market By Adam Hanieh , London & New York: Verso, 2024. 336 pp. ISBN: 9781839763427 £17.31 (hardback)', International Journal of Law in Context, pp. 1 - 6, http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1744552325000035
    Journal articles | 2025
    Tzouvala N, 2025, 'International law as a discipline in crisis', Australian Journal of International Affairs, 79, pp. 71 - 78, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10357718.2024.2416253
    Journal articles | 2024
    Tzouvala N, 2024, 'Aggression, Capitalism, and International Law: Missed Opportunities or Structural Constraints?', Current Legal Problems, 77, pp. 201 - 232, http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/clp/cuae006
    Journal articles | 2023
    Tzouvala N, 2023, 'The “Unwilling or Unable” Doctrine and the Political Economy of the War on Terror', Humanity An International Journal of Human Rights Humanitarianism and Development, 14, pp. 19 - 38, http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/hum.2023.a902628
    Journal articles | 2022
    Gathii JT; Tzouvala N, 2022, 'Racial Capitalism and International Economic Law: Introduction', Journal of International Economic Law, 25, pp. 199 - 206, http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/jiel/jgac025
    Journal articles | 2022
    Kotova A; Tzouvala N, 2022, 'In Defense of Comparisons: Russia and the Transmutations of Imperialism in International Law', American Journal of International Law, 116, pp. 710 - 719, http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/ajil.2022.48
    Journal articles | 2022
    Tzouvala N, 2022, 'Capitalism as Civilisation, Or How to Respond to Your Book Reviews When the Author Is Dead', European Journal of Legal Studies
    Journal articles | 2022
    Tzouvala N, 2022, 'Full Protection and Security (for Racial Capitalism)', Journal of International Economic Law, 25, pp. 224 - 241, http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/jiel/jgac019
    Journal articles | 2022
    Tzouvala N, 2022, 'Global capitalism and law, and where to find them: Afterword to the Foreword by Karen Alter', International Journal of Constitutional Law, 20, pp. 60 - 66, http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/icon/moac025
    Journal articles | 2022
    Tzouvala N, 2022, 'International Law and (the Critique of) Political Economy', South Atlantic Quarterly, 121, pp. 297 - 320, http://dx.doi.org/10.1215/00382876-9663618
    Journal articles | 2022
    Tzouvala N, 2022, 'Invested in Whiteness: Zimbabwe, the von Pezold Arbitration, and the Question of Race in International Law', Journal of Law and Political Economy, 2, http://dx.doi.org/10.5070/lp62258226
    Journal articles | 2021
    Fallah K; Tzouvala N, 2021, 'Deploying Race, Employing Force: ‘African Mercenaries’ and the 2011 NATO Intervention in Libya', UCLA Law Review, 67, pp. 1580 - 1609
    Journal articles | 2021
    Knox R; Tzouvala N, 2021, 'International Law of State Responsibility and COVID-19: An Ideology Critique', The Australian Year Book of International Law Online, 39, pp. 105 - 121, http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/26660229-03901009
    Journal articles | 2021
    Tzouvala N, 2021, 'Book Review: Settler Colonialism, Race, And The Law: Why Structural Racism Persists By Natsu Taylor Saito', Melbourne Journal of International Law, 21, pp. 469 - 489
    Journal articles | 2021
    Tzouvala N, 2021, 'Casey, Christopher A.: Nationals Abroad: Globalization, Individual Rights, and the Making of Modern International Law (2020)', Zeitschrift für ausländisches öffentliches Recht und Völkerrecht / Heidelberg Journal of International Law, 81, pp. 271 - 276, http://dx.doi.org/10.17104/0044-2348-2021-1-271
    Journal articles | 2020
    Tzouvala N, 2020, 'The Ordo-Liberal Origins of Modern International Investment Law: Constructing Competition on a Global Scale', European Yearbook of International Economic Law
    Journal articles | 2020
    Tzouvala N, 2020, 'World Trade and Investment Law Reimagined: A Progressive Agenda for an Inclusive Globalization', European Journal of International Law, 31, pp. 1166 - 1170, http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ejil/chaa069
    Journal articles | 2019
    Tzouvala N, 2019, 'A false promise? Regulating land-grabbing and the post-colonial state', Leiden Journal of International Law, 32, pp. 235 - 253, http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0922156519000128
    Journal articles | 2018
    Grasten M; Tzouvala N, 2018, 'The political economy of international transitional administration: regulating food and farming in Kosovo and Iraq', Contemporary Politics, 24, pp. 588 - 606, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13569775.2018.1452663
    Journal articles | 2018
    Tzouvala N, 2018, 'The academic debate about mega-regionals and international lawyers: legalism as critique?', London Review of International Law, 6, pp. 189 - 209, http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/lril/lry019
    Journal articles | 2018
    Tzouvala N, 2018, '‘These Ancient Arenas of Racial Struggles’: International Law and the Balkans, 1878–1949', European Journal of International Law, 29, pp. 1149 - 1171, http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ejil/chy067
    Journal articles | 2017
    Tzouvala N, 2017, 'Food for the Global Market: The Neoliberal Reconstruction of Agriculture in Occupied Iraq (2003–2004) and the role of international law', Global Jurist, 17, http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/gj-2016-0009
    Journal articles | 2016
    Tzouvala N, 2016, 'Chronicle of a Death Foretold? Thinking About Sovereignty, Expertise and Neoliberalism in the Light of Brexit', German Law Journal, 17, pp. 117 - 124, http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s2071832200021817
    Journal articles | 2016
    Tzouvala N, 2016, 'New Approaches to International Law: The History of a Project', European Journal of International Law, 27, pp. 215 - 233, http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ejil/chw009
    Journal articles | 2015
    Tzouvala N, 2015, 'TWAIL and the “Unwilling or Unable” Doctrine: Continuities and Ruptures', AJIL Unbound, 109, pp. 266 - 270, http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s2398772300001574
    Journal articles | 2015
    Tzouvala N, 2015, 'The Holy See and Children’s Rights: International Human Rights Law and Its Ghosts', Nordic Journal of International Law, 84, pp. 59 - 88, http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/15718107-08401003