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‘One Vast Gasoline Station for Human Exploitation’ (2023)
Book Chapter
Prost, M. (2023). ‘One Vast Gasoline Station for Human Exploitation’. In The Routledge Handbook of International Law and Anthropocentrism (13-34). (1). Taylor & Francis (Routledge). https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003201120-3

This chapter revisits the history of one of international law's foundational concepts – sovereignty – and examines its deep anthropocentric structure. It shows that, from the sixteenth century onwards, the transformation and subjection of nature's fo... Read More about ‘One Vast Gasoline Station for Human Exploitation’.

Consentir (2021)
Book Chapter
Prost, M. (2021). Consentir. In Dictionnaire de l'actualité internationale (130-131)

System (2019)
Book Chapter
Prost, M. (2019). System. In Concepts for International Law: Contributions to Disciplinary Thought (850–864). Edward Elgar Publishing. https://doi.org/10.4337/9781783474684.00062

The idea that international law exists and operates as a system has become a quasiaxiomatic premise of our discipline. Yet why we think of international law as a system, what precisely makes it a system and the normative implications of calling it a... Read More about System.