The Question of Solidarity in Law and Politics

Eleni Karageorgiou is senior researcher in public international law. Her Ph.D. thesis on solidarity in refugee protection has been awarded the Oscar II:s stipend by Lund University. She has received funding for postdoctoral research which led to the publication of the edited Volume Solidarity and the Limits of Social Europe (2022). Gregor Noll is a professor of international law at the School of Business, Economics and Law, Gothenburg, and a guest researcher at the Swedish Defence University, Stockholm. He has written on subjects in the theory of international law, migration law, international humanitarian law, and law and AI.

• Foreword Martti Koskenniemi; Introduction Karageorgiou and Noll; 1. Solidarity and law: odd bedfellows? Patricia Mindus; 2. Risking solidarity Sally J. Scholz; 3. Antinomies and aporias in official human rights solidarity argumentation across the Global South/North Axis Obiora Chinedu Okafor; 4. Unwelcome solidarity Frédéric Mégret; 5. On migration: an African perspective Charles Romain Mbele; 6. Neoliberalism, solidarity and the law of collective security Eva Nanopoulos; 7. Will there be solidarity in data-driven societies? Gregor Noll, 8. Transnational worker solidarity after the pandemic Lisa Herzog; 9. Populism and trans-national solidarity Haris Jamil, Richard Joyce and Sundhya Pahuja; 10. Modern monetary theory and the birth of a new refugee realism Peo Hansen; 11. Solidarity conceptions, neo-liberal economics and law as a public service Bas Schotel; 12. International law and the messianic promise of solidarity Eleni Karageorgiou; Index.