Advancing public and academic conversations about international law and double standards
Advancing public and academic conversations about how double standards manifest, are alleged, and affect the practice and legitimacy of international law.
As public attention intensifies around how states invoke international law and how international institutions operate, The Double Standards Project explores when, why, and with what effects international legal rules are applied unevenly across contexts.
It asks what counts as a double standard and who gets to define it?
When is consistency essential to international law’s authority and effectiveness?
Are departures from consistency ever defensible and on what grounds?
And how do claims of double standards shape the practice, legitimacy, and perception of international law in a contested global order?