Prof. Dr. IGNACIO DE LA RASILLA

Han Depei Chair in International Law and One Thousand Talents Plan Professor, Wuhan University, Institute of International Law.

Chief Expert, Wuhan Academy of International Law and Global Governance, (National Top Think Tank)China.

Education

Post-Doctoral Max Weber Fellow in Law, European University Institute, Florence. LL. M. Harvard Law School. Ph. D. and M.A.  in international relations with specialization in international law. Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, Geneva. LL.B. (5 years qualifying law degree) University Complutense of Madrid.

Monographs

International Law and History – Modern Interfaces. Cambridge Studies of Comparative and International Law

Cambridge University Press (2021) (374 pp.)
Han Depei Prize in Law, 2021

Paperback ed. 2023

In the Shadow of Vitoria – A History of International Law in Spain (1770-1953)

Brill/Nijhoff, Collection of Studies in the History of International Law (2017) (370 pp.)

Edited Books

Experiments in International Adjudication. Historical Accounts

DE LA RASILLA, I. (with Viñuales, J.E. Eds.)
Cambridge University Press (2019)

Paperback ed. 2021

International Law and Islam. Historical Explorations

DE LA RASILLA, I. (with Shahid, A., Eds.)
Brill/Nijhoff (2018).

Historia del pensamiento iusinternacionalista español del siglo XX

DE LA RASILLA, I. (With Gamarra, Y., Eds.)
Thomson Reuters (2012).

The Cambridge Handbook of China and International Law

Cambridge University Press

DE LA RASILLA, I. (with Congyan Cai., Eds.)(forth.2024)

 Histories of International Law in China. All Under Heaven?

Oxford University Press

DE LA RASILLA, I.(with Jiangyu Wang and Congyan Cai., Eds.) (forth. 2025)

Journal Articles

1.DE LA RASILLA, I., ‘The Paths Not Taken? Episodic Crises and Adjudication of the Crime of Piracy’ Journal of International Criminal Justice(2022) (SSCI)

2.DE LA RASILLA, I. ‘Looking Forward Through and Beyond the Western Classics of International Law’ Asian Journal of International Law(2022) (ESCI)

3.DE LA RASILLA, I The Greatest Victory? Challenges and Opportunities for Mediation in Investor-State Dispute Settlement?ICSID Review – Foreign Investment Law Journal (2022) (SSCI)

4.DE LA RASILLA, I “The Community of Shared Future for Mankind and China’s Legalist Turn to International Relations”, Chinese Journal of International Law(2021). (SSCI)

5.DE LA RASILLA, I., “China and International Adjudication – Picking up Steam? Journal of International Dispute Settlement(2021). (SSCI)

6.DE LA RASILLA, I., “Sharp Ears to Hear a Thunderclap?” The Rise of Mediation in the Prevention and Dispute Settlement System of the Belt and Road Initiative, 29Asia Pacific Law Review (2021). (SSCI)

Book Chapters

1.DE LA RASILLA, I., ‘China and International Dispute Settlement by Adjudicative and Other Means’ in De la Rasilla, I., and Cai, Congyan (eds.)The Cambridge Handbook of China and International Law (Cambridge University Press, 2024)

2.DE LA RASILLA, I., ‘China and the Community of Shared Future for Mankind’ in De la Rasilla, I and Cai, Congyan (eds.)The Cambridge Handbook of China and International Law (Cambridge University Press, 2024)

3.DE LA RASILLA, I., (with Cai Congyan). ‘China and International Law: Not a Map but Perhaps a Compass’, in De la Rasilla, I and Cai, Congyan (eds.) The Cambridge Handbook of China and International Law (Cambridge University Press, 2024)

4.DE LA RASILLA, I. ‘The Turn to Women in International Law. Strategies for Re-Inclusion?’ in H.Ruiz-Fabri et al. Oxford Handbook of Women in International Law (Oxford University Press, 2024)

5.DE LA RASILLA, I. ‘Carl Schmitt and Vitoria through the Mirror of the Classics’ in Beneyto J.M. ed. Carl Schmitt and Francisco de Vitoria (Oxford University Press,2023)
6.DE LA RASILLA, I. (with D. Armitage), ‘The Most Neglected Province’: British Historiography of International Law’, in R. Lesaffer and A. Peters (eds.). The Cambridge History of International Law. Vol. I. (Cambridge University Press, 2022). 

Encyclopedia & Bibliographies In International Law

1.DE LA RASILLA, I., ‘Failed International Courts and Tribunals’ Max Planck Encyclopedia on International Procedural Law (MPEiPro) (Oxford University Press, 2022)

2.DE LA RASILLA, I., “Medieval International Law”, in Oxford Bibliographies of International Law (ed. Anthony Carty) Oxford University Press (2014), pp. 1-25. Updated edition in 2017.

3.DE LA RASILLA, I., “History of International Law, 1550-1700” in Oxford Bibliographies of International Law (Ed. Anthony Carty) Oxford University Press, (2013) pp. 1-25. Updated edition in 2017.

Journal Symposia

1.DE LA RASILLA, I. (Ed.); ‘Camilo Barcia Trelles, 1888-1977’ in The European Tradition of International Law, 31 European Journal of International Law (2021).

2.DE LA RASILLA, I. (Ed.); “Introduction” to Special Issue on “Ruptures in International Law”, 13 German Law Journal 5, (2012), pp. 466-578.

3.DE LA RASILLA, I. (with M. Mbengue Eds.); “Africa and International Law – Reality and Desire”, Special Issue on “Africa and International Law”, 18 African Yearbook of International Law (2012), pp. 1-310. 

Contact

Mailing address: School of Law, Wuhan University, Luojia Hill, Wuchang, Wuhan, Hubei Province, China

Email: ignaciodelarasilla@post.harvard.edu

© 2022 Ignacio de la Rasilla