Kevin Crow

ARTICLES

• Prominence and Dominance: Great Power Competition and the De Facto Monetary Constitution (R&R EJIL) (forthcoming likely 2026).
• A Refractive Method: Rethinking Nature or Leaving Meaning in International Law (under review at LJIL) (forthcoming 2026–2027).
• Algorithmic Due Diligence in Critical Resource Value Chains (under review) (forthcoming 2026–2027).
• In the Shadow of Recognition: ASEAN’s Missing Court? (under review at AsianJIL) (forthcoming 2026–2027).
• ASEAN’s Turn From ICSID: Singapore’s Resistance to the Rise of Regionalism, 27 CURRENTS: J. INT’L ECON. L. (forthcoming, 2026).
• Recalibrating Investment Arbitration: Lessons from ASEAN, 5 AIAC ALT. DISPUTE RESOLUTION J. (forthcoming, 2026).
• Medellín Manifesto on Transnational Value Chains and International Law (with Lina Lorenzoni Escobar et al), 13 LONDON REV. INT’L L. 117 (2025).
• What Does a Corporation Owe?: The Source of Obligations in International Investment Counterclaims (with Lina Lorenzoni Escobar), 31 MINN. J. INT’L L. 1 (2022).
• From Traction to Treaty Bound: Erga Omnes, Jus Cogens, and Corporate Subjectivity in International Investment Arbitration (with Lina Lorenzoni Escobar), 13 J. INT’L DISPUTE SETTLEMENT 121 (2022).
• International Corporate Constituency as a Human Problem, 12 TRANSNAT’L LEGAL THEORY 159 (2021).
• International Law and Corporate Participation in Times of Armed Conflict, 37 BERKELEY J. INT’L L. 64 (2019).
• The Opacity of Proportionality in International Courts, 51 GEO. WASH. INT’L L. REV. 289 (2019).
• International Corporate Obligations, Human Rights, and the Urbaser Standard: Breaking New Ground? (with Lina Lorenzoni Escobar), 36 B.U. INT’L L. J. 87 (2018).
• The Concept of ‘Development’ in International Economic Law: Three Definitions and an Inquiry into Origin, 14 MANCH. J. INT’L ECON. L. 148 (2017).
• The Merits or the Messenger?: Complementarity and the Referral Process in the ICC’s Application of Article 17 of the Rome Statute, 26 J. TRANSNAT’L L. & POL’Y 53 (2017).
• The Emerging Neoliberal Penality: Foucauldian Punishment in a Profit-Driven Carceral System, 52 CRIM. L. BULL. 1 (2016).

BOOKS

• ACCESSION, AGREEMENT, AND ACCEPTANCE IN INTERNATIONAL LAW: ADVERSARIALISM AND CONSENT AFTER BANDUNG (monograph, forthcoming from Routledge 2026).
• INTERNATIONAL CORPORATE PERSONHOOD: BUSINESS AND THE BODYLESS IN INTERNATIONAL LAW (monograph, Routledge 2021, paperback 2023).
• LEGAL PERSONHOOD AND ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE: ETHICS OF OWNERSHIP (monograph, forthcoming from Ethics Press 2027).
• THE ‘NATURAL’ IN INTERNATIONAL LAW (monograph, interest from Edward Elgar and Oxford University Press, anticipated 2027–2028).
• THE PUSH AND PULL OF FAIRNESS IN INTERNATIONAL LAW (co-edited with Prof. Ozlem Ulgen, interest from Edward Elgar, forthcoming likely 2028–2029).

BOOK CHAPTERS

• [Sustainable] Development, in Thomas Cottier & Krista Shefer (eds.), Encyclopedia of International Economic Law (Edward Elgar 2024).
• The Right to Property and Development, in Thomas Cottier & Krista Shefer (eds.), Encyclopedia of International Economic Law (Edward Elgar 2023).
• International Law as Evangelism, in Benjamin Porat & David Flatto (eds.), LAW AS RELIGION, RELIGION AS LAW (Cambridge 2022).
• Bandung’s Fate, in Ingo Venzke & Kevin Jon Heller (eds.), CONTINGENCY IN INTERNATIONAL LAW: ON THE POSSIBILITY OF DIFFERENT LEGAL HISTORIES (Oxford 2021).
• ‘Winds of Justice?’: Post-Colonial Opportunism and the Rise of the Khmer Rouge, in Morten Bergsmo, Wolfgang Kaleck & Kyaw Yin Hlaing (eds.), COLONIAL WRONGS AND ACCESS TO INTERNATIONAL LAW (TOAEP 2020).
• DSB Supervision of Implementation at the WTO (with Christian Tietje), MAX PLANCK EIPRO ENCYCLOPEDIA OF INTERNATIONAL LAW (Oxford 2020).
• Corporate Persons and Crimes Against Humanity, in Katia Fach Gomez, Anastasios Gourgourinis & Catharine Titi (eds.), EUROPEAN YEARBOOK OF INTERNATIONAL ECONOMIC LAW: INTERNATIONAL INVESTMENT LAW AND THE LAW OF ARMED CONFLICT (Springer 2019).
• The Reform of Investment Protection Rules in CETA, TTIP, and Other Recent EU-FTAs: Convincing? (with Christian Tietje), in Stefan Griller, Walter Obwexer & Erich Vranes (eds.), MEGA-REGIONAL AGREEMENTS: NEW ORIENTATIONS FOR EU EXTERNAL ECONOMIC RELATIONS (Oxford 2017).

TEXTBOOK CONTRIBUTIONS

• On the Confirmation of Charges Against Charles Ble Goude (ICC), André Klip & Steven Freeland (eds.), ANNOTATED LEADING CASES OF INTERNATIONAL CRIMINAL TRIBUNALS (“ALC”), Vol. LXIV (Intersentia 2021).
• Commentary on Prosecutor v. Duch (ECCC), André Klip & Steven Freeland (eds.), ALC Vol. LX (Intersentia 2020).
• The Scope of the ICC Registrar’s Powers Under Regulation 135, André Klip & Steven Freeland (eds.), ALC Vol. LVII (Intersentia 2019).
• Commentary on Prosecutor v. Radovan Karadzic (ICTY), André Klip & Steven Freeland (eds.), ALC Vol. LIV (Intersentia 2017).
• Recent ICC Applications of Article 17 of the Rome Statute, André Klip & Göran Sluiter (eds.), ALC Vol. LII (Intersentia 2016).

BOOK REVIEWS

• Anne Saab, Narratives of Hunger in International Law: Feeding the World in Times of Climate Change, 23 J. INT’L ECON. L. 1049 (2020).
• Anthea Roberts, Is International Law International?, 21 J. INT’L ECON. L. 739 (2018).
• Diane Desierto, Public Policy in International Economic Law: The ICESCR in Trade, Finance, and Investment, 21 J. INT’L ECON. L. 1 (2018).
• Iryna Marchuk, The Fundamental Concept of Crime in International Criminal Law, 15 J. INT’L CRIM. JUST. 2 (2017).

WORKS IN PROGRESS

• The ‘Material’ in International Law / The ‘Natural’ in International Law
  • A broad multiyear international collaboration exploring ‘the material’, ‘the natural’, ‘the true’ and ‘the real’, assumed in judicial reasoning, legal texts, and market justifications in international law.
• Bowring’s Legacies and the ‘Christian Subject’
  • Exploring impact of 1855 Bowring Treaty provisions on extraterritoriality and taxation.
• Top Glove, Sime Darby, and the USCBP: International Law and Global Political Economy in Trade
  • Ongoing research in the cross-border legal structures and political economy of trade and labor/human rights enforcement.
• Responsibility in Action: The Use of International Law in CSR and SCSR (evolving database on file).
• The Monetary Gold Doctrine at the ICJ (with Andrej Lang).

POLICY PAPERS & ONLINE PUBLICATIONS

• International Law’s Crisis of Faith: Double Standards from North to South, Social Europe (forthcoming, March 2026), https://www.socialeurope.eu/international-laws-crisis-of-faith-double-standards-from-north-to-south.
• A Pagan Christmas, Critical Legal Thinking (December 2021), https://criticallegalthinking.com/2021/12/22/a-pagan-christmas/.
• The Use of ‘Human Rights’ and ‘Development’ by Evangelical Organizations, OpenDemocracy (June 2018), https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/how-us-evangelical-organizations-deploy-human-rights-and-development/.
• A Taxonomy of Proportionality in International Courts, iCourts Working Paper Series No. 107 (November 2017), https://jura.ku.dk/icourts/research-resources/working-papers/.
• Trump’s Travel Ban v. Macron’s Police Power Reforms, Social Europe (June 2017), https://www.socialeurope.eu/2017/06/trumps-travel-ban-v-macrons-police-power-reforms/.
• Four Key Features of the Emerging ‘Trumpism’, Social Europe (April 2017), https://www.socialeurope.eu/2017/04/four-key-features-emerging-trumpism/.
• ‘Trumpism’, the TPP, and the Politics of Uncertainty, Pol’y Papers on Transnat’l Econ. L. No. 46, Transnational Economic Law Research Centre (TELC) (Feb. 2017), http://tietje.jura.uni-halle.de/sites/default/files/PolicyPaper/PolicyPaper_No46.pdf.
• The TPP and Malaysia: Local Impact and Implications Following the Conclusion of the Partnership Negotiations, Pol’y Papers on Transnat’l Econ. L. No. 44, TELC (Oct. 2015), http://tietje.jura.uni-halle.de/sites/default/files/PolicyPaper/PolicyPaper_No44.pdf.
• The TPA in 2015: A Quick Look at the Latest Incarnation of the U.S. President’s ‘Fast Track’ Trade Negotiation Authority, Pol’y Papers on Transnat’l Econ. L. No. 43, TELC (June 2015), http://telc.jura.uni-halle.de/de/node/24.

TEACHING

• Asia School of Business, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, 2018 – Present
  • Ethics & Corporate Legal Accountability (lecture/discussion format), Fall 2018 – Present
  • Public International Law & the Private Sector (lecture/discussion format), Spring 2020 – Summer 2023
  • Law & Ethics in Central Banking (lecture/discussion format), Fall 2021 – Present
  • Legal Tender: Histories of Law and Money (seminar/reading group format), Summer 2024 – Present
  • International Law & Global Business Strategy (ACE hybrid format), Summer 2025
  • Action Learning Projects Supervised:
    • ACM-Boeing (Alor Setar, Malaysia); Ancora (Jakarta, Indonesia); Online Pajak (Jakarta, Indonesia);
      Asia Development Bank (Manila, Philippines); Microsoft (Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia);
      PNB (Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia); Sime Darby (Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia);
      Green Packet (Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia); CSR (Independent); SOCAR (Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia);
      CIMB (Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia); Khazanah (Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia);
      ABB (Independent & Zurich, Switzerland); AQEX (London, UK).
• Universität Halle-Wittenberg Law School, Halle, Germany, 2015 – 2018
  • International Economic Law, ELSA/WTO Moot, Fall 2015 – 2017
  • International Human Rights Law (lecture format, 100+ students), Spring 2015
  • International Investment Law, Skadden FDI Moot, Spring 2016 – 2017
  • Introduction to U.S. Constitutional Law (lecture format, 200+ students), Fall 2015 – 2018
• Executive Education, ASB Iclif Executive Education Center, 2020 – Present
  • Ethics & Legal Accountability; Emerging Norms in Corporate Social Responsibility;
    International Law & Global Business Strategy; Business and Human Rights;
    Essentials of International Investment Law in ASEAN; Blockchain, Supply Chains, and the Law;
    custom courses.

WORKSHOPS AND CONFERENCES

• Co-Convenor, A World Without Rules?, International Law and Conflict: An Enduring Tension?, ESIL Annual Conference, Universidad de Málaga, Spain, September 2026.
• Money Laundering via Digital Currencies: An Invisible Challenge to International Criminal Law (with Jessica Chua), Machine Lawyering Conference, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Centre for Legal Innovation and Digital Society, Hong Kong, May 2026.
• Co-Convenor, Transnational Value Chains and International Law, Asia School of Business, Phase II Conference on TVCs, Medellín Group, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, December 2026 (tentative).
• Co-Convenor, Normalizing Stability: Theoretical Perspectives on Stability and Change in International Law, Jagiellonian University, Kraków, Poland, April 2026.
• Co-Convenor, Transnational Value Chains and International Law, Eafit University Law School, Phase I Conference on TVCs, Medellín, Colombia, December 2025.
• Co-Convenor, On What Basis Should International Law be Reconstructed?, ESIL Interest Group on Legal Theory & Philosophy, ESIL Annual Conference, Reconstructing International Law, Berlin, Germany, 10–13 September 2025.
• The Christian Subject, The 5th Asian Legal History Conference, Doshisha University, July 31 – Aug 1, Kyoto Japan (2025).
• Participant, Navigating New Horizons: International Economic Law in a Changing World, TAIPEI, July 9-11 (Taipei, Taiwan 2025).
• Missing the Medium: Monetary Orders and Gaps in Legal (Economic) Theory, American Society of International Law Midyear Meeting, University of Pittsburgh Law School, 20–22 November 2023.
• Co-Convenor, The Push and Pull of Fairness: Theoretical Approaches to Fairness in International Law, ESIL Annual Conference, Aix-en-Provence, France, 30 August – 3 September 2023.
• International Law and GVCs, Society for the Advancement of Socio-Economics Annual Conference, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 20–22 July 2023.
• Co-Convenor, Public and Private Commodity Production in International Law, Eafit University Law School, Phase I Conference on TVCs, Medellín, Colombia, 17 July 2023.
• Prominence and Dominance: Monetary Policy and International Economic Legal Theory, SIEL Biannual Conference, Bogotá, Colombia, 12–14 July 2023.
• The “Christian Subject”: Secret Societies and the Opium Trade in Siam and the Straits Settlements, 3rd Asian Legal History Conference, CUHK, Hong Kong, China, 20–21 June 2023.
• Prominence and Dominance: Monetary Policy and International Law, Money as a Democratic Medium, Harvard Law School, Boston, USA, 15–17 June 2023.
• Participant, 4th UN South Asia Forum on Business and Human Rights, Kathmandu, Nepal, 20–22 March 2023.
• Co-Convenor, “The Natural” in International Law, Amsterdam Center for International Law, Asia School of Business, Graduate Institute Global Governance Centre, Amsterdam, 8–9 September 2022.
• Participant, Law & Society Conference, “Rage, Reckoning, and Remedy”, ICSTE University Institute Lisbon, 14–16 July 2022.
• Panelist, ICON•S Annual Conference, “Global Problems and Prospects in Public Law”, Wrocław, Poland, 4–6 July 2022.
• Inequality, Silence, and “the Natural” in International Law, ANU Law School’s 60th Anniversary Conference: Public Law and Inequality, Canberra, February 2022.
• Bowring’s Legacies, Asian Legal History Conference, CUHK – Hue University, Vietnam, 24–25 July 2021.
• Working Group on “The Natural” in International Law, Panel Organizer, ICON•S Conference, “The Future of Public Law”, Mundo, 8–10 July 2021.
• Solidarity and “The Natural” in International Law, ESIL Research Forum, “Solidarity: The Quest for Founding Utopias in International Law”, Catania, April 2021.
• Constituency and the International Corporate Person, Transnational Law Institute, King’s College London, “Bringing the Human Problem Back: The Example of Corporate (Ir)responsibility”, October 2020.
• From Traction to Treaty Bound (with Lina Lorenzoni-Escobar), ESIL/Católica Global Law School, “Socially Responsible Foreign Investment Under International Law”, Lisbon, October 2019.
• Institutional Moralization and International Corporate Persons, Taylor’s University Law School, “The Future of Law & Legal Practice”, Kuala Lumpur, October 2019.
• The Individual Moralization of Corruption and the International Corporate Person, EUI, “Corruption, Democracy and Human Rights”, Florence, June 2019.
• International Anti-Corruption Law and the International Corporate Person, Wharton/SciencesPo, “The Transnationalization of Anti-Corruption Law”, Paris, December 2018.
• International Corporate Personhood: Future Roads, UN 8th Annual Forum on Business & Human Rights, Palais des Nations, Geneva, November 2018.
• Bandung’s Missed Legacies: Alternative Normative Approaches to International Law?, ACIL Conference, “Contingency in International Law”, Amsterdam, June 2018.
• Redesigning International Adjudication, Howard League, “Redesigning Justice”, Oxford, March 2018.
• International Human Rights Law as a Tool of Repression: International Evangelical Organizations, Development Funding, and LGBT Rights, ARC Strategic Litigation Symposium, Brussels, March 2018.
• Human Rights and the Fluctuation of Executive Powers in the U.S.: From Nixon to Trump, Maastricht University, Netherlands, January 2018.
• Corporate Subjectivity and Crimes Against Humanity: Can Arbitrators Push the Boundaries of Investor-to-State Financial Liability?, National University of Athens, Greece, October 2017.
• Corporate Human Rights Obligations and International Investment Law: Urbaser’s Potential, ESIL Conference, Naples, September 2017.
• Migrations of Power: International IP Law and the Implications of Eli Lilly, ICON•S Conference, Copenhagen, July 2017.
• International Law as Evangelism: American Christianity and the UN Development Project, Hebrew University, Jerusalem, June 2017.
• The “Proportionality” Delusion in International Law, LUISS Guido Carli University, Rome, May 2017.

INVITED TALKS AND PANELS

• The Christian Subject During the Development of International and Extraterritorial Courts in Southeast Asia, Lund University Law School, Seminar on Law, Religion, and Culture, 24 January 2024.
• Discussant, Law & Society Conference, “Rage, Reckoning, and Remedy”, ICSTE University Institute Lisbon, 14–16 July 2022.
• Panelist, ICON•S Annual Conference, “Global Problems and Prospects in Public Law”, Wrocław, 4–6 July 2022.
• 2nd UN South Asia Forum on Business and Human Rights, Online Forum, 15–19 March 2021.
• Responsibility in Action, Leadership Energy Summit Asia (LESA), Kuala Lumpur Malaysia, 16–18 November 2020, ASB Iclif Executive Education Center.
• Comment on the ECCC and Colonialism and Post-Colonialism, CILRAP Expert Meeting on Colonial Legacies and Access to International Law, Yangon, Myanmar, 16–17 November 2019, video available at https://www.cilrap.org/cilrap-film/191117-crow/ .
• The Evolving Status of Corporate Subjectivity to International Law: Developments in ISDS, presented to the IFF Research Seminar Series at the MIT Sloan School of Management, February 2018.
• A Taxonomy of Proportionality in International Courts, presented to the iCourts Research Seminar at the University of Copenhagen Law School, 13 September 2017.
• International Corporate Obligations, Human Rights, and the Urbaser Standard: Breaking New Ground?, with Lina Lorenzoni Escobar, University of Halle-Wittenberg Law School, 27 April 2017.
• Is There a Better Way to Approach “Judgment” in International Law?: International IP Law and the Case of Eli Lilly, Asia School of Business Research Seminar, 13 February 2017.
• The Asymmetry of Investor-State Obligations Under International Investment Law, World Bank Kuala Lumpur, 6 December 2016.
• Food Security and the Human Right to Knowledge, Summer School on Food Security, University of Halle-Wittenberg Law School, 15 September 2016.

ACADEMIC, PRO BONO, AND ADMINISTRATIVE SERVICE

• Editorial Board, Journal of Legal Studies Education (JLSE) (5-year term, 2023 – 2028).
• European Society of International Law (ESIL), Coordinating Committee for International Legal Theory and Philosophy (4-year term, June 2021 – June 2025).
• Pro bono international lawyer for the Global Legal Action Network (GLAN), 2018 to present.
• Registered arbitrator at the Asian International Arbitration Centre (AIAC), 2021 to present.
• Peer Reviewer:
  • American Philosophical Society Press
  • American Business Law Journal
  • Edward Elgar Publishing
  • Journal of Business Ethics
  • Journal of International Economic Law
  • Journal of International Dispute Settlement
  • Routledge
• Administrative Service at ASB:
  • Research Seminar Series, Co-Coordinator 2018 to 2019, Coordinator 2019 to 2021.
  • Admissions Committee, 2020 to 2022.
  • Ethical Research Review Board (IRB), 2018 to present.
  • MBA Values Committee, Chair, 2018 to present.
  • AACSB Board, 2022 to present.
  • Academic Director, 2025 to present.

PROFESSIONAL CERTIFICATES

• Harvard Business School, Case Method Teaching, March 2018
• University of Washington, Dynamic Public Speaking, September 2014

PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS

• American Society of International Law (ASIL)
• Asian Society of International Law (AsianSIL)
• European Society of International Law (ESIL)
• Society for the Advancement of Socio-Economics (SASE)
• Society of International Economic Law (SIEL)
• International Society of Public Law (ICON•S)
• European Corporate Governance Institute (ECGI)
• Law Association for Asia and the Pacific (LAWASIA)
• Law & Society Association (LSA)

LANGUAGES

• English: native; German: proficient (cert. Goethe Institute);
  Indonesian: intermediate (cert. U.S. State Dep’t);
  Spanish: intermediate.

WEB

• BePress Selected Works
• SSRN Author Page
• ASB Faculty Profile
• ECGI Profile
• Global FoE Profile
• Twitter
• Google Scholar
• Personal Website