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Profile
Ntina joined the ANU College of Law as a Senior Lecturer in July 2020 and was promoted to Associate Professor in January 2022. Prior to this appointment she was an ARC Laureate Postdoctoral Fellow at Melbourne Law School. She obtained her PhD from Durham Law School (UK) in 2016 and she also worked as a lecturer at the same institution.
Her work focuses on the political economy, history, and theory of international law. She is especially interested in historical materialism, deconstruction, feminist and queer legal thoery. 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, it was shortlisted for the Deutscher Prize and was awarded an honourable mention in the context of the 2021 Sussex Prize in International Theory. Her work has also appeared in leading journals, including the European Journal of International Law, the Leiden Journal of International Law and the UCLA Law Review.
Between 2019 and 2021 Ntina was a founding member of the editorial collective of the Third World Approaches to International Law Review. In early 2020, she was appointed Senior Advisor to the UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food.
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Qualifications
2012-2016: Durham University: Doctor of Philosophy in Law (awarded with no corrections).
2011-2012: University College London: LL.M in International law (Merit).
2010-2011: National & Kapodestrian University of Athens, Faculty of Law: LLM in Socio-legal studies (Distinction).
2006-2010: National & Kapodestrian University of Athens, Faculty of Law: BCL/LLB (8,22/10). -
Appointments
2022-onwards: Associate Professor, Australian National University, College of Law.
July 2020-December 2021: Senior Lecturer (Assistant Professor), Australian National University, College of Law.
September 2016-July 2020: ARC Laureate Postdoctoral Fellow, Melbourne Law School.
September 2015-August 2016: Lecturer in Law, Durham Law School. -
Research Interests
RESEARCH FUNDING
November 2021: Australian National University Gender Institute ($5,000) Project Title: Diversifying the Law Curriculum for the 21st Century’ (along with Dr Kate Ogg).
Jan 2020: Modern Law Review Seminar Funding (£ 4,369) Project Title: ‘‘Between Race and Capitalism: Understanding 21st Century International Law’ (along with Dr Robert Knox-funding extended due to the COVID-19 pandemic).
Dec 2019: Small Events Grants of the Australian and New Zealand Society of International Law ($2,250). Project title: ‘Between Race and Capitalism: Understanding 21st Century International Law’
Nov 2019: Melbourne Law School Research Excellence Grant ($10,000) Project Title: ‘Between Race and Capitalism: Understanding 21st Century International Law’
May 2017: Melbourne Law School International Collaboration Fund ($10,000) Project title: ‘1917: Revolution, Intervention and International Law(s). -
Selected Publications
Books
1) Ntina Tzouvala, Capitalism as Civilisation: A History of International Law (Cambridge University Press, 2020).
– The book was awarded the 2021 Certificate of Merit for a Preeminent Contribution to Creative Scholarship by the American Society of International Law.
– It was awarded a honourable mention as part of the 2021 Sussex International Theory Prize by the Centre for Advanced International Theory, University of Sussex.
– It was shortlisted as part of the 2021 Deutscher Memorial Prize.
2) Greenman K, Orford A., Saunders A., Tzouvala N., (eds.), Revolutions in International Law: The Legacies of 1917(Cambridge University Press, 2021).
3) Margolies D.S., Özsu U., Pal M., Tzouvala N. (eds.), The Extraterritoriality of Law: History, Theory, Politics (Routledge, 2019).Journal Articles
1) Ntina Tzouvala, ‘TWAIL and the ‘Unwilling or Unable’ Doctrine: Continuities and Ruptures’ (2015) 109 AJIL Unbound 266-270.
2) Ntina Tzouvala, ‘Food for the Global Market: The Neoliberal Reconstruction of Agriculture in Occupied Iraq (2003-2004) and the Role of International Law’ (2017)17(1) Global Jurist 1-27.
3) Ntina Tzouvala, ‘These Ancient Arenas of Racial Struggles”: International Law and the Balkans (1878-1949)’ (2018) 29(4) European Journal of International Law 1149–1171.
4) Ntina Tzouvala, ‘A False Promise? Regulating Land-grabbing and the Postcolonial State’ (2019) 32(2) Leiden Journal of International Law 235-253.
5) Ntina Tzouvala, ‘The Specter of Eurocentrism in International Legal History’ (2021) 31(2) Yale Journal of Law and the Humanities 413-434.
6) Ntina Tzouvala, Katherine Fallah, ‘Deploying Race in the Defence of “Humanity”: The 2011 Intervention in Libya and “African Mercenaries”’ (2021) 67(6)UCLA Law Review 1580-1609.
7) Ntina Tzouvala, ‘International Law and (the Critique of) Political Economy’ (2022) South Atlantic Quarterly (forthcoming)
8) Ntina Tzouvala, ‘Invested in Whiteness: Zimbabwe, the von Pezold Arbitration, and the Question of Race in International Law’ (2022) Journal of Law and Political Economy (forthcoming).
9) Ntina Tzouvala, ‘Full Protection and Security (for Racial Capitalism)’ (2022) Journal of International Economic Law (forthcoming).Book Chapters
10) Ntina Tzouvala ‘“And the Laws are Rude, are Crude and Uncertain”: Extraterritoriality and the Emergence of Territorialised Statehood in Siam’ in Margolies D.S., Özsu U., Pal M., Tzouvala N. (eds.), The Extraterritoriality of Law: History, Theory, Politics (Routledge, 2019).
This chapter was shortlisted for the inaugural Australian Legal Research Awards (ALRA)-Category: ECR Chapter/Article.
11) Ntina Tzouvala ‘The Future of Feminist International Legal Scholarship in a Neoliberal University: Doing Law Differently?’ in Harris-Rimmer S., Ogg K. (eds.), The Future of Feminist Engagement with International Law (Edward Elgar, 2019).
12) Ntina Tzouvala ‘Civilisation’ in Singh S., d’ Aspremont J. (eds.), Fundamental Concepts for In- ternational Law: The Construction of a Discipline (Edward Elgar, 2019).
13) Ntina Tzouvala, Robert Knox, ‘Looking Eastwards: The Bolshevik Theory of Imperialism and International Law’ in Greenman K, Orford A., Saunders A., Tzouvala N., (eds.), Revolutions in International Law: The Legacies of 1917(Cambridge University Press, 2021). -
Others
EDUCATION ACTIVITIES
• LAWS 8329-Gender, Law and Development (LLM Course-September 2020 and July 2021-Course convener and lecturer).
• LAWS2250-International Law (LLB Core Course-Semester 2 2020-Tutor).
• LAWS1201- Foundations of Australian Law (LLB Core Course-Semester 1 2021-Seminar Leader).
• LAWS8182-Principles of International Law (LLM Course-September 2021-Course convener and lecturer).I was awarded the 2021 ANU College of Law Excellent in Education Award for my convening and teaching of this course.
• LAWS8148-Special Topics in Law: Contagious Diseases and International Law (LLM Course-November 2021-Course convener and lecturer).
• LAWS4341- Law, Markets and Justice (LLB elective co-developed and co-taught with Dr Will Bateman)
• Legal Methods and Legal Writing (HDR course developed and taught by me. October 2021).
