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  • 15 - What Can We (She) Know about Sovereignty?: Krystyna Marek and the Worldedness of International Law

  • from Part III - Thinking in or around the Academy
  • Edited by Patricia Owens, University of Oxford, Katharina Rietzler, University of Sussex
  • Book:
    Women's International Thought: A New History
    Published online:
    07 January 2021
    Print publication:
    07 January 2021, pp 327-344

  • Summary

    This essay charts the co-implication of the personal and the intellectual in the work of international legal thinker Krystyna Marek, a Polish exile who wrote in the context of the dissolution of empire in Eastern Europe. Marek’s 1954 book The Identity and Continuity of States in Public International Law reflected a fundamental shift in international legal reasoning on the birth and death of states. How and through what means might a state’s legal identity survive revolution, imperial administration, or belligerent occupation? How would observers know if a state’s international personality was extinguished? To offer a legal answer to these questions, Marek argued, one must think ‘from outside states,’ as states themselves were unable to think their own non-existence. She contributed the first systematic presentation of international law as a vantage point (or legal fiction) that existed both before and after states, and was thus capable of governing their creation and extinction.