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Authored Books

Craven, Matthew (2007) The Decolonization of International Law: State Succession and the Law of Treaties. Oxford: Oxford University Press. (Oxford Monographs in International Law)

Craven, Matthew (1995) The International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights: A Perspective on its Development. Oxford: Clarendon Press.

Edited Book or Journal Volume

Craven, Matthew, Pahuja, Sundhya and Simpson, Gerry, eds. (2019) International Law and the Cold War. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Craven, Matthew, Fitzmaurice, Malgosia and Vogiatzi, Maria, eds. (2007) Time, History and International Law. Leiden; Boston: Martinus Nijhoff. (Developments in International Law; 58)

Craven, Matthew and Fitzmaurice, Malgosia, eds. (2005) Interrogating the treaty: essays in the contemporary law of treaties. The Netherlands: Wolf Legal Publishers.

Book Chapters

Craven, Matthew and Parfitt, Rose (2024) 'Statehood, Self-Determination and Recognition.' In: Evans, Malcolm, (ed.), International Law. 6th edition. Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 206-247.

Hamzić, Vanja (2024) 'Rival Systems: Islamic International Law during the Cold War.' In: Craven, Matthew, Pahuja, Sundhya and Simpson, Gerry, (eds.), International Law during the Cold War, 1945-1990. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. (The Cambridge History of International Law, Vol. XI) (Forthcoming)

Craven, Matthew (2023) 'Traditions of Equality and Economic and Social Rights.' In: Langford, Malcolm and Young, Katherine, (eds.), Oxford Handbook of Economic and Social Rights. Oxford: Oxford University Press, C62S1-C62N116.

Craven, Matthew (2021) 'The Time of Revolution: Decolonisation, Heterodox International Legal Historiography and the Problem of the Contemporary.' In: Chalmers, Shane and Pahuja, Sundhya, (eds.), Routledge Handbook of International Law and the Humanities. London: Routledge. (Routledge Handbooks)

Hamzić, Vanja (2019) 'Pakistan's Cold War(s) and International Law.' In: Craven, Matthew, Pahuja, Sundhya and Gerry, Simpson, (eds.), International Law and the Cold War. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp. 447-466.

Newton, Scott (2019) 'Parallel Worlds: Cold War Division Space.' In: Craven, Matthew, Pahuja, Sundhya, Simpson, Gerry and Saunders, Anna, (eds.), International Law and the Cold War. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp. 117-136.

Craven, Matthew, Pahuja, Sundhya and Simpson, Gerry (2019) 'Reading and Unreading a Historiography of Hiatus.' In: Craven, Matthew, Pahuja, Sundhya and Simpson, Gerry, (eds.), International Law and the Cold War. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp. 1-24.

Craven, Matthew (2019) 'Colonial Fragments: Decolonization, Concessions, and Acquired Rights.' In: von Bernstorff, Jochen and Dann, Philipp, (eds.), The Battle for International Law: South-North Perspectives on the Decolonization Era. Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 102-124. (The History and Theory of International Law)

Craven, Matthew and Parfitt, Rose (2018) 'Statehood, Self-Determination and Recognition.' In: Evans, Malcolm D., (ed.), International Law, 5th Edition. Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 177-226.

Craven, Matthew (2018) 'The Ends of Consent.' In: Bowman, Michael J. and Kritsiotis, Dino, (eds.), Conceptual and Contextual Perspectives on the Modern Law of Treaties. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp. 103-135.

Craven, Matthew (2016) 'Theorising the Turn to History in International Law.' In: Orford, Anne and Hoffman, Florian, (eds.), The Oxford Handbook of the Theory of International Law. Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 21-37. (Oxford Handbooks)

Craven, Matthew (2012) 'Colonialism and Domination.' In: Fassbender, Bardo and Peters, Anne, (eds.), Oxford Handbook of the History of International Law. Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 862-889.

Craven, Matthew (2012) 'The Invention of a Tradition: Westlake, The Berlin Conference and the Historicisation of International Law.' In: Vec, M. and Nuzzo, L., (eds.), Constructing International Law: The Birth of a Discipline. Frankfurt am Main: Klosterman, pp. 363-403.

Craven, Matthew (2010) 'Statehood, Self-Determination and Recognition.' In: Evans, Malcolm D., (ed.), International Law. (3rd ed.). Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 203-251.

Craven, Matthew (2007) 'The Violence of Dispossession: Extraterritoriality and Economic, Social and Cultural Rights.' In: Baderin, Mashood and McCorquodale, Robert, (eds.), Economic, Social and Cultural Rights in Action. Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 71-88.

Craven, Matthew (2006) 'Some Thoughts on the Emergent Right to Water.' In: Riedel, Eibe and Rothen, Peter, (eds.), The Human Right to Water. Berlin: Berliner Wissenschafts-Verlag.

Craven, Matthew (2005) 'Unity, Diversity and the Fragmentation of International Law.' In: Klabbers, J. and Tuori, T., (eds.), Finnish Yearbook of International Law, Volume 14 (2003). Leiden: Brill, pp. 3-34.

Craven, Matthew (2005) 'What Happened to Unequal Treaties? The Continuities of Informal Empire.' In: Craven, Matthew and Fitzmaurice, Malgosia, (eds.), Interrogating the Treaty. Essays in the Contemporary Law of Treaties. Nijmegen: Wolf Legal Publishers, pp. 43-80.

Craven, Matthew (2004) 'For the 'Common Good': Rights and Interests in the Law of State Responsibility.' In: Fitzmaurice, Malgosia and Sarooshi, D., (eds.), Issues of State Responsibility before International Judicial Institutions. Oxford: Hart Publishing, pp. 105-127.

Craven, Matthew (1998) 'The Protection of Economic, Social and Cultural Rights under the Inter-American System of Human Rights.' In: Harris, David J. and Livingstone, Stephen, (eds.), The inter-American system of human rights. Oxford: Clarendon Press, pp. 289-321.

Journal Article

Craven, Matthew (2021) 'The Tyranny of Strangers: Transformative Occupations Old and New.' London Review of International Law, 9 (2). pp. 197-218.

Craven, Matthew (2019) '‘Other Spaces’: Constructing the Legal Architecture of a Cold War Commons and the Scientific-Technical Imaginary of Outer Space.' European Journal of International Law, 30 (2). pp. 547-572.

Craven, Matthew (2015) 'Between Law and History: the Berlin Conference of 1884-85 and the Logic of Free Trade.' London Review of International Law, 3 (1). pp. 31-59.

Craven, Matthew, Drew, Catriona, Humphreys, Stephen, Lang, A. and Marks, Susan (2013) 'The London Review of International Law Begins.' London Review of International Law, 1 (1). pp. 1-5.

Craven, Matthew (2012) 'On Foucault and Wolff or from Law to Political Economy.' Leiden Journal of International Law, 25. pp. 627-645.

Craven, Matthew (2005) 'What Happened to Unequal Treaties? The Continuities of Informal Empire.' Nordic Journal of International Law, 74. pp. 335-382.

Craven, Matthew, Marks, Susan, Simpson, Gerry and Wilde, Ralph (2004) ''We are Teachers of International Law'.' Leiden Journal of International Law, 17. pp. 363-374.

Craven, Matthew (2002) 'The Bosnia Case Revisited and the New Yugoslavia.' Leiden Journal of International Law, 15 (2). pp. 323-343.

Craven, Matthew (2002) 'Humanitarianism and the Quest for Smarter Sanctions.' European Journal of International Law, 13 (1). pp. 43-61.

Craven, Matthew (2000) 'Legal Differentiation and the Concept of the Human Rights Treaty in International Law.' European Journal of International Law, 11 (3). pp. 489-519.

Craven, Matthew (1998) 'The Problem of State Succession and the Identity of States under International Law.' European Journal of International Law, 9 (1). pp. 142-162.

Craven, Matthew (1997) 'The Genocide Case, the Law of Treaties and State Succession.' British Yearbook of International Law, 68. pp. 127-163.

Craven, Matthew (1996) 'The European Community Arbitration Commission on Yugoslavia.' British Yearbook of International Law, 66. pp. 333-413.

Other

Drew, Catriona and Craven, Matthew (2014) 'Invoking the Language of ‘Savagery’ and ‘Barbarism’ in International Law Debates.' OUPBlog (online).