Dear all, I (Federico Salvati FU Berlin) and Kyle Reed (University of Amsterdam) are applying to the next ISA 2025 with the following panel. We are currently reviewing abstracts for it and you are more than welcome to submit yours in this is relevant to your research agenda *Language, law and international politics* How do we understand language and rhetoric in international law (IL) – or the use of IL in different types of language and rhetoric? Increasing attention has been paid to the role of language in making, structuring, and sustaining IL. The objects of IL – from treaty texts to court judgments – are made through language. The use of law – from formalized invocations to public and political debates – hinges on language. And the critiques of IL – from its contestation in international organizations to its rejection in international and domestic politics – are first and foremost expressed through rhetorical activities. The aims of the panels are to: 1) Bring together scholars interested in IL from across theoretical, disciplinary, and methodological perspectives to examine the intertwined nature of rhetoric, language, and IL; 2) Examine how new methodologies and theoretical perspectives shift the study of IL and international politics; 3) reconceptualize the liberal idea of interpretation as clarification of the norm, instead considering how the study of language informs the idea of legitimate interpretation in relation to systems of structure and power; 4) Study how the competing interpretations create also competing dynamics of legitimacy operating in and across different systems of regional and international organizations and structures. The abstracts should be submitted at: k.reed@uva.nl or federicoslvt@gmail.com Best Federico Salvati