On Tyranny and the Global Legal Order

Aoife O'Donoghue is a Professor of International Law and Global Governance at Durham University Law School, UK. She publishes extensively on topics such as utopias and global constitutionalism, tyranny, feminism, the use of force alongside international legal history and theory, including her monograph Constitutionalism in Global Constitutionalisation (2014). She co-led the UN Gender Network, the highly successful Northern/Ireland Feminist Judgments Project, and Performing Identities, a project focusing on Brexit and Northern Ireland. She frequently comments in the media on the impact of Brexit on Ireland, and has undertaken extensively consultancy work for statutory human rights bodies.

• Introduction; 1. A history of tyranny; 2. A taxonomy of tyranny; 3. Tyrannicide, tyrannophobia and tyrannophilia; 4. Scale, tyranny, and the global legal order; 5. Imperialism, tyranny and the global legal order.