Makane Moïse Mbengue is Professor of International Law at the Faculty of Law of the University of Geneva and Director of the Department of International Law and International Organization. He is also an Affiliate Professor at Sciences Po Paris (School of Law). He is a Member of the Curatorium of The Hague Academy of International Law. Since 2017, he is the President of the African Society of International Law (AfSIL). He is the author of several publications in the field of international law.Jean d’Aspremont is Professor of International Law at Sciences Po School of Law. He also holds a chair of Public International Law at the University of Manchester. He has written extensively on international law and international legal theory. His work has been translated in several languages including Spanish, Portuguese, Russian, Hindi, Japanese and Persian.

• Crisis and Its Curators: A Preface  Philippe SandsNotes on ContributorsIntroductionMakane Moïse Mbengue and Jean d’Aspremont1 The Love of CrisisJan Klabbers2 Crisis? What Damned Crisis?Iain Scobbie3 Crisis Narratives and the Tale of Our AnxietiesHélène Ruiz Fabri4 Crisis and International Law: A Third World Approaches to International Law PerspectiveB.S. Chimni5 covid and the Crisis Mode in International Legal ScholarshipFrédéric Mégret6 Narratives of Solidarity in Times of Crisis: Tales from AfricaMakane Moïse Mbengue7 International Law as a Crisis Discourse The Peril of WordlessnessJean d’Aspremont8 covid-19 as a Catalyst for the (Re-)Constitutionalisation of International Law: One Health – One WelfareAnne Peters9 The covid-19 Pandemic Crisis and International Law: A Constitutional Moment, A Tipping Point or More of the Same?Yuval Shany10 Beyond War Narratives: Laying Bare the Structural Violence of the PandemicEliana Cusato11 Repetitive Renewal: covid, Canons and BlinkersChristian J. Tams12 International Law and Crisis Narratives after the covid-19 PandemicCatherine Kessedjian13 Only Once … Upon a Time?Laurence Boisson de Chazournes14 The Kaleidoscopic World Confronts a PandemicEdith Brown Weiss15 How Learned Are Our Lessons?Mónica Pinto16 Hobbes and the Plague DoctorsBenedict Kingsbury17 The covid-19 Crisis, Indigenous Peoples, and International Law: A Vulnerability PerspectiveMalgosia Fitzmaurice18 covid-19 and Research in International LawFuad Zarbiyev19 A Narrative of Crises from the Perspective of a Young ScholarIga Joanna Józefiak