
Ulf Linderfalk
Professor

Publications
Displaying of publications. Sorted by year, then title.
Legal Research: The State of the Art and the Way Forward
Ulf Linderfalk
(2026) The Exercise of Discretion in International Law
Book chapterThe Exercise of Discretion as an Object of Study
Ulf Linderfalk
(2026) The Exercise of Discretion in International Law
Book chapterThe Exercise of Discretion in International Law: The Different Functions of Constraining Criteria
Ulf Linderfalk
(2025) Liber Amoricum Pål Wrange
Book chapterThe Proliferation of Special Regimes and the Unity of the International Legal System
Ulf Linderfalk
(2025) Liverpool Law Review, 46 p.1-19
Journal articleGör som folkrättsjuristerna gör, eller gör bara som vanligt? Vilken metod bör beslutsfattare använda när de är oklara över hur de ska tillämpa lagen om FN:s konvention om barnets rättigheter?
Ulf Linderfalk, Kristian Gustafsson
(2025) Juridisk Tidskrift
Journal articleThe meaning and significance of teleological conflict
Ulf Linderfalk
(2025) Cambridge International Law Journal
Journal articleWhy severability? A new theory of the effect of invalid treaty reservations
Ulf Linderfalk
(2024)
OtherSpecial regimes as communities of practice: A new way to improve communication across legal specializations
Ulf Linderfalk
(2024)
OtherThe Exercise of Discretion in International Law: The Different Functions of Constraining Criteria
Ulf Linderfalk
(2024)
OtherThe Exercise of Discretion in International Law: Why This Topic Needs Studying, How It Should be Studied, and by Whom
Ulf Linderfalk
(2024)
Conference paperInternational Law and the Significance of Disciplinary Boundaries : Special Regimes as Communities of Practice
Ulf Linderfalk, Eric De Brabandere
(2024)
BookWhy severability? A new theory of the effect of invalid treaty reservations
Ulf Linderfalk
(2024) Groningen Journal of International Law, 11 p.184-203
Journal articleSpecial regimes as communities of practice: A new way to improve communication across legal specializations
Ulf Linderfalk
(2024) Spanish Yearbook of International Law, 28 p.53-76
Journal articleRational Reconstruction and International Legal Reasoning
Ulf Linderfalk
(2023) Hague Yearbook of International Law
Journal articleThe Concept of a Concept of International Law
Ulf Linderfalk
(2023) Cambridge International Law Journal, 12 p.177-189
Journal articleJustification or Discovery? A New Way to a Fuller Understanding of the Law on Treaty Interpretation
Ulf Linderfalk
(2023) Baltic Yearbook of International Law, 21 p.155-181
Journal articleNeither Fish, Nor Fowl : A New Way to a Fuller Understanding of the lex specialis Principle
Ulf Linderfalk
(2023) International Community Law Review, 25 p.426-455
Journal articleJustification or Discovery? A New Way to a Fuller Understanding of the Law on Treaty Interpretation, key-note speech
Ulf Linderfalk
(2023)
Conference - otherRational Reconstruction and International Legal Reasoning, solicited paper
Ulf Linderfalk
(2022)
Conference - otherIntroduction
Eduardo Gill-Pedro, Ulf Linderfalk
(2021) Revisiting Proportionality in International and European Law: Interests and Interest-Holders , p.1-11
Book chapterRevisiting Proportionality in International and European Law : Interests and Interest- Holders
Ulf Linderfalk, Eduardo Gill-Pedro
(2021)
BookConcepts as Tools of Legal Reasoning – How Pragmatics May Promote the Rationality of International Legal Discourse and the Work of Legal Scholars
Ulf Linderfalk
(2021) Nordic Journal of International Law, 90 p.373-404
Journal articleProportionality and International Legal Pragmatics
Ulf Linderfalk
(2021) Revisiting Proportionality in International and European Law: Interests and Interest-Holders , p.168-183
Book chapterThe exercise of discretion in international law – why constraining criteria have a proper place in the analysis of legal decision-making
Ulf Linderfalk
(2021) German Yearbook of International Law, 62 p.407-430
Journal articleConcepts as tools of legal reasoning: How pragmatics may promote the rationality of the work of international legal scholars
Ulf Linderfalk
(2021) SSRN
Working paperThe legal consequences of jus cogens and the individuation of norms
Ulf Linderfalk
(2020) Leiden Journal of International Law, 33 p.893-909
Journal articleUnderstanding Jus Cogens in International Law and International Legal Discourse
Ulf Linderfalk
(2020)
BookLegal standing before the ICJ: The admissibility of claims of breaches of obligations erga omnes and erga omnes partes
Ulf Linderfalk
(2020)
Conference - otherThe emperor’s new clothes – What if no Jus cogens claim can be justified?
Ulf Linderfalk
(2020) International Community Law Review, 22 p.139-162
Journal articleProportionality in international law : Whose interests count?
Eduardo Gill-Pedro, Ulf Linderfalk
(2020) Nordic Journal of International Law, 89 p.275-285
Journal article (comment)Good Faith and the Exercise of Treaty-Based Discretionary Powers
Ulf Linderfalk
(2020) Exceptions in International Law , p.259-273
Book chapterProportionality and international legal pragmatics
Ulf Linderfalk
(2020) Nordic Journal of International Law, 89 p.422-437
Journal articleFrågor, tillämpningar och reflexioner : Internationella mänskliga rättigheter
Anna Nilsson, Ulf Linderfalk
(2020) Folkrätten i ett nötskal , p.349-360
Book chapterGeneral Principles as Principles of International Legal Pragmatics: The Relevance of Good Faith for the Application of Treaty Law
Ulf Linderfalk
(2019) Queen Mary Studies in International Law, 37
Book chapterBegreppet jus cogens
Ulf Linderfalk
(2019) Juridiska grundbegrepp : en vänbok till David Reidhav
Book chapterWhy should we distinguish between the exercise of discretion and interpretation?
Ulf Linderfalk
(2019) SSRN
Working paperSovereign immunity and the enforcement of international investment arbitration awards: The case of Anatoli Stati et al v. Kazakhstan
Ulf Linderfalk
(2018)
Conference - otherWhat Are the Functions of the General Principles? Good Faith and International Legal Pragmatics
Ulf Linderfalk
(2018) Zeitschrift für ausländisches öffentliches Recht und Völkerrecht : Heidelberg journal of international law, 78 p.1-32
Journal articleTreaty abuse : Why criticism of the doctrine is unfounded
Ulf Linderfalk
(2018) Journal of International Dispute Settlement, 9 p.254-290
Journal articleIntroduction : Language and international law
Ulf Linderfalk
(2017) Nordic Journal of International Law, 86 p.119-124
Journal article (comment)Philip Morris Asia Ltd. v. Australia - Abuse of Rights in Investor-State Arbitration
Ulf Linderfalk
(2017) Nordic Journal of International Law, 86 p.403-419
Journal article reviewNavigating the Legal Landscape between the General and the Specific : General Concepts as Tools of Legal Reasoning
Ulf Linderfalk
(2017) International Community Law Review, 19 p.302-323
Journal article reviewWhen the international lawyers get to be heard – the story of tax treaty interpretation as told in Sweden
Ulf Linderfalk
(2017)
Conference - otherThe Relevance of Good Faith for the Application of Treaty Law: Good Faith as a Principle of Legal Pragmatics
Ulf Linderfalk
(2017)
Conference - otherPhilip Morris Asia Ltd. v. Australia: Abuse of Rights in Investor-State Arbitration
Ulf Linderfalk
(2017)
Conference - otherGood Faith and the Exercise of Treaty-Based Discretionary Powers
Ulf Linderfalk
(2016)
Conference paperThe Jan Mayen Case (Iceland/Norway): An Example of Successful Conciliation
Ulf Linderfalk
(2016) Conciliation in International Law : the OSCE court of conciliation and arbitration
Book chapterWhen the International Lawyers Get to Be Heard : The Story of Tax Treaty Interpretations as Told in Sweden
Ulf Linderfalk
(2016) Nordic Tax Journal, 2016 p.3-16
Journal articleGeneral Concepts as a Tool of Legal Reasoning : As Illustrated by the Judgments of the International Criminal Tribunal for Former Yugoslavia in Delalić and Kunarac
Ulf Linderfalk
(2016) Mod og Mening. : Hyldeskrift til Frederik Harhoff , p.307-320
Book chapterUnderstanding the Jus Cogens Debate : The Pervasive Influence of Legal Positivism and Legal Idealism
Ulf Linderfalk
(2016) Netherlands Yearbook of International Law, 46 p.51-84
Book chapterIs Interpretation an Art or a Science? Treaty Interpretation and the Principle of Rational Decision-Making
Ulf Linderfalk
(2015)
Conference - otherIs Treaty Interpretation an Art or a Science? International Law and Rational Decision Making
Ulf Linderfalk
(2015) European Journal of International Law, 26 p.169-189
Journal articleUnderstanding the Jus Cogens Debate: The Pervasive Influence of Legal Positivism and Legal Idealism
Ulf Linderfalk
(2015)
Working paperUnderstanding the Jus Cogens Debate: : The Pervasive Influence of Legal Positivism and Legal Idealism
Ulf Linderfalk
(2015) Netherlands Yearbook of International Law
Journal articleThe Use of OECD Commentaries as Interpretative Aids : The Static/Ambulatory-Approaches Debate Considered from the Perspective of International Law
Maria Hilling, Ulf Linderfalk
(2015) Nordic Tax Journal, 2015 p.34-59
Journal articleCross-fertilisation in International Law
Ulf Linderfalk
(2015) Nordic Journal of International Law, 84 p.428-428
Journal articleIs the Vienna Convention hostile to drafting history? A response to Julian Davis Mortenson, part 1
Ulf Linderfalk
(2014)
OtherIs the Vienna Convention hostile to drafting history? A response to Julian Davis Mortenson, part 2
Ulf Linderfalk
(2014)
OtherThe Use of OECD Commentaries as Interpretative Aids: The Static/Ambulatory Approaches Debate Considered from the Perspective of International Law
Ulf Linderfalk, Maria Hilling
(2014)
Working paperIs the Vienna Convention Hostile to Drafting History: A Response to Julian Davis Mortenson
Ulf Linderfalk
(2014)
Working paperThe Concept of Treaty Abuse: On the Exercise of Legal Discretion
Ulf Linderfalk
(2014)
Working paperIs Interpretation an Art or a Science? Treaty Interpretation and the Principle of Rational Decision-Making
Ulf Linderfalk
(2013)
Conference - otherThe Functionality of Conceptual Terms in International Law and International Legal Discourse
Ulf Linderfalk
(2013) Posted at the SSRN, on 5 August 2013. Available at: .
Working paperThe Principle of Rational Decision-Making: As Applied to the Identification of Normative Conflicts in International Law
Ulf Linderfalk
(2013) Zeitschrift für ausländisches öffentliches Recht und Völkerrecht : Heidelberg journal of international law, 73 p.591-614
Journal articleInternational Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes Tribunal, Spyridon Roussalis v Romania, Decision of 7 December 2011
Ulf Linderfalk
(2013) International and Comparative Law Quarterly, 62 p.241-250
Journal articleAll the Things That You Can Do With Jus Cogens: : A Pragmatic Approach to Legal Language
Ulf Linderfalk
(2013) German Yearbook of International Law, 56 p.351-386
Journal articleTowards A More Constructive Analysis of the Identity of Special Regimes in International Law: : The Case of Proportionality
Ulf Linderfalk
(2013) Cambridge Journal of International and Comparative Law, 2 p.850-878
Journal articleJurisdictional Immunities of the State (Germany v. Italy): The Concept of a Normative Conflict Revisited
Ulf Linderfalk
(2013) Essays in honour of Michael Bogdan , p.243-256
Book chapterAnm. av Prost, Mario: The Concept of Unity in Public International Law
Ulf Linderfalk
(2013) The Yearbook of Polar Law, 5 p.703-707
ReviewThe Source of Jus Cogens Obligations: How Legal Positivism Copes with Peremptory International Law
Ulf Linderfalk
(2013) Nordic Journal of International Law, 82 p.369-389
Journal articleIs Treaty Interpretations an Art or a Science? International Law and Rational Decision-Making
Ulf Linderfalk
(2013)
Conference paperAll the Things That You Can Do With Jus Cogens: And Some of the Things That You Cannot
Ulf Linderfalk
(2013)
Conference - otherThe Functionality of Conceptual Terms in International Law and International Legal Discourse
Ulf Linderfalk
(2013) European Journal of Legal Studies, 6 p.27-50
Journal articleWhat Is So Special about Jus Cogens : On the Distinction between the Ordinary and the Peremptory International Law
Ulf Linderfalk
(2012) International Community Law Review, 14 p.3-18
Journal articleFolkrätten i ett nötskal, 2 uppl.
(2012)
BookTolkning genom sammanjämkning: Om Wienkonventionen om traktaträtten, artikel 33(4), och traktattolkningens särskilda lära
Ulf Linderfalk
(2012) Tidsskrift for Rettsvitenskap, 125 p.458-490
Journal articleExploring the Legacy of a Life Dedicated to Humanitarianism : A Special Issue in Celebration of the 100th Anniversary of Raoul Wallenberg
(2012) Nordic Journal of International Law, 81
Journal articleRemissvar: till betänkandet SOU 2010:72 Folkrätt i väpnad konflikt - svensk tolkning och tillämpning
Gregor Noll, Ulf Linderfalk, Matilda Arvidsson, Britta Sjöstedt
(2011)
Consultation responseThe Creation of Jus Cogens: : Making Sense of Article 53 of the Vienna Convention
Ulf Linderfalk
(2011) Zeitschrift für ausländisches öffentliches Recht und Völkerrecht : Heidelberg journal of international law, 71 p.359-378
Journal articleThe Application of International Legal Norms Over Time: : The Second Branch of Intertemporal Law
Ulf Linderfalk
(2011) Netherlands International Law Review, 58 p.147-172
Journal articleInternational Legal Hierarchy Revisited: The Status of Obligations Erga Omnes
Ulf Linderfalk
(2011) Nordic Journal of International Law, Vol. 80 p.1-23
Journal articleJus Cogens
Ulf Linderfalk
(2010) IVR Encyclopaedia of Jurisprudence, Legal Theory and Philosophy of Law
Book chapterThe Post-9/11 Discourse Revisited: : The Self-Image of the International Legal Scientific Discipline
Ulf Linderfalk
(2010) Goettingen Journal of International Law, 2 p.893-949
Journal articleExamensarbetets när, hur och varför? Om skrivandet av en tjugopoängsuppsats i folkrätt på Juris kandidatprogrammets sista termin
Ulf Linderfalk
(2009) I lärandets tjänst. Vänbok till Karin Adlercreutz , p.89-103
Book chapterState Responsibility and the Primary-Secondary Rules Terminology: : The Role of Language for an Understanding of the International Legal System
Ulf Linderfalk
(2009) Nordic Journal of International Law, 78 p.53-72
Journal articleNormative Conflict and the Fuzziness of the International ius cogens Regime
Ulf Linderfalk
(2009) Zeitschrift für ausländisches öffentliches Recht und Völkerrecht : Heidelberg journal of international law, 69 p.961-977
Journal articleTreaties and the avoidance and resolution of normative conflict: With specific regard to the international jus cogens regime
Ulf Linderfalk
(2008)
Conference paperDoing the Right Thing for the Right Reason: : Why Dynamic or Static Approaches Should be Taken in the Interpretation of Treaties
Ulf Linderfalk
(2008) International Community Law Review, 10 p.109-141
Journal articleWho are "the parties"? Article 31 §3(c) and the "Principle of Systemic Integration" Revisited
Ulf Linderfalk
(2008) Netherlands International Law Review, 55 p.343-364
Journal articleIs the Hierarchical Structure of Articles 31 and 32 of the Vienna Convention Real or Not? Interpreting the Rules of Interpretation
Ulf Linderfalk
(2007) Netherlands International Law Review, 54 p.133-154
Journal articleThe Effect of Jus Cogens Norms: : Whoever Opened the Pandora’s Box, Did You Think About the Consequences?
Ulf Linderfalk
(2007) European Journal of International Law, 18 p.853-871
Journal articleOn the interpretation of treaties: the modern international law as expressed in the 1969 Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties
Ulf Linderfalk
(2007) Law and philosophy library; v. 83
BookThe Effect of Jus Cogens Norms: : Whoever Opened the Pandora's Box, Did You Ever Think About the Consequences?
Ulf Linderfalk
(2007)
Conference paperFolkrätten i ett nötskal
(2006)
BookThe Missing Jus Cogens and Inter-Temporal Law Arguments: Operation Enduring Freedom Considered at Some Distance
Ulf Linderfalk
(2006)
Conference paperReservations to Treaties and Norms of Jus Cogens - a Comment on Human Rights General Comment No. 24
Ulf Linderfalk
(2004) Reservations to human rights treaties and the Vienna convention regime: conflict, harmony of reconciliation , p.213-234
Book chapterRemissvar: till betänkandet Rättslig samverkan inom Partnerskap för fred och EU:s krishantering m.m. (SOU 2003:117)
Ulf Linderfalk
(2003)
Consultation responseOn the Meaning of the ’Object and Purpose’ Criterion, in the Context of the Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties, Article 19
Ulf Linderfalk
(2003) Nordic Journal of International Law, 72 p.429-440
Journal articleOn the meaning of the "object and purpose" of a treaty, in the context of the Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties, article 19
Ulf Linderfalk
(2002)
Conference paper