This subject opens with a Foreword by the late Karen Knop. In 2020, the EJIL Editors-in-Chief invited Professor Knop to put in writing an EJIL Foreword, an annual function within the Journal designed to provide a distinguished writer the house to discover the ‘state of the sphere’ in a particular space of worldwide legislation. Professor Karen Knop, holder of the Cecil A. Wright Chair on the College of Toronto, was such a distinguished writer. She wrote ground-breaking books and articles on self-determination, feminism and worldwide legislation, cities in worldwide legislation and international relations legislation. In EJIL, she printed ‘Eunomia is a Girl: Philip Allott and Feminism’ and ‘Lorimer’s Personal Residents of the World’. She was an awesome trainer and enabler of others’ work.
Karen enthusiastically accepted our invitation to put in writing the 2024 Foreword, indicating that she would write on ‘populism, empire and the rise of international relations legislation/implications for worldwide legislation’.
