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Dr Henry Jones' Outputs (19)

Apathy, Aphasia, and Athambia: Teaching Jamestown and Parodying the History of International Law (2024)
Book Chapter
Jones, H., & O'Donoghue, A. (2024). Apathy, Aphasia, and Athambia: Teaching Jamestown and Parodying the History of International Law. In J.-P. Gauci, & B. Sander (Eds.), Teaching International Law: Reflections on Pedagogical Practice in Context (17-30). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003429265-3

In 2019, the Journal of the History of International Law published an article on the 1622 Jamestown Massacre. This article fell short of every standard of academic publishing, in particular three grounds on which the Committee on Publication Ethics (... Read More about Apathy, Aphasia, and Athambia: Teaching Jamestown and Parodying the History of International Law.

Property and Commons: The tangible and the intangible (2022)
Book Chapter
Jones, H., & Gerrard, C. (2023). Property and Commons: The tangible and the intangible. In N. Graham, M. Davies, & L. Godden (Eds.), The Routledge Handbook of Property, Law and Society (349-361). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003139614

In this chapter we review the commons in law and in practice in a British context, taking the long historical perspective. We set the scene with some modern legal definitions, then explore what ancient common land meant in practice. The commons is a... Read More about Property and Commons: The tangible and the intangible.

History and self-reflection in the teaching of international law (2022)
Journal Article
Jones, H., & O’Donoghue, A. (2022). History and self-reflection in the teaching of international law. London Review of International Law, 10(1), 71-103. https://doi.org/10.1093/lril/lrac008

This article is about how international law, and specifically its history, is taught. The article critiques the pedagogy in this area by analysis of textbooks, and then considers the contexts in which international legal texts are written, taught and... Read More about History and self-reflection in the teaching of international law.

International Law and the Production of new resources: Lessons from the colonisation of Mars (2021)
Book Chapter
Jones, H. (2021). International Law and the Production of new resources: Lessons from the colonisation of Mars. In S. Chalmers, & S. Pahuja (Eds.), Routledge Handbook of International Law and the Humanities (302-311). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003170914

International law’s role in the creation, exploitation and governance of natural resources is complex and nuanced. How the law relating to resource ownership and use interacts with the law protecting the environment and economic governance is a vital... Read More about International Law and the Production of new resources: Lessons from the colonisation of Mars.

Charity and Ideology (2021)
Book Chapter
Jones, H. Charity and Ideology. In N. Piška, & H. Gibson (Eds.), Critical Trust Law: Reading Roger Cotterell. Counterpress

A historical approach to Chagos Islanders v the United Kingdom (2019)
Book Chapter
Jones, H. (2019). A historical approach to Chagos Islanders v the United Kingdom. In D. Gonzalez-Salzberg, & L. Hodson (Eds.), Research methods for international human rights law : beyond the traditional paradigm (171 - 200). Routledge

Property, territory, and colonialism: an international legal history of enclosure (2019)
Journal Article
Jones, H. (2019). Property, territory, and colonialism: an international legal history of enclosure. Legal Studies, 39(2), 187-203. https://doi.org/10.1017/lst.2018.22

This paper is concerned with how law organises and controls space. It offers a new history of enclosure in the context of early English colonialism. By drawing this connection, the paper opens up new lines of enquiry into how law organises and produc... Read More about Property, territory, and colonialism: an international legal history of enclosure.

Lines in the Ocean: Thinking with the sea about territory and international law (2016)
Journal Article
Jones, H. (2016). Lines in the Ocean: Thinking with the sea about territory and international law. London Review of International Law, 4(2), 307-343. https://doi.org/10.1093/lril/lrw012

This article considers how space is constructed, ordered and controlled at sea. Foregrounding the sea in this way raises new questions about the relation between international law, physical space and human mobility.

The Kantian Defence of Murder (2016)
Book Chapter
Jones, H. (2016). The Kantian Defence of Murder. In R. Barnes, & V. Tzevelekos (Eds.), Beyond responsibility to protect : generating change in international law (31-52). Intersentia

Unequal from the Start - A History of International Law in the Context of Colonialism https://www2.le.ac.uk/offices/lli/events/courses/researcher-development/DIL-video-archive/cahl/international-law-in-context-of-colonialism (2015)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Jones, H. (2015, December). Unequal from the Start - A History of International Law in the Context of Colonialism https://www2.le.ac.uk/offices/lli/events/courses/researcher-development/DIL-video-archive/cahl/international-law-in-context-of-colonialism. Paper presented at Public Lecture, University of Leicester