1 Forthcoming in a special issue on ‘Populism and International Law’, edited by Janne Nijmann and Wouter Werner, in the Netherlands Yearbook of International Law 2019 Populism, International Law and the End of Keep Calm and Carry on Lawyering Christine Schwöbel-Patel ∗ Abstract The relationship between populism and international law is mostly conveyed as one of populist-problem versus international law-solution. International lawyers feel called upon to respond to the rise in populism with multilateralism and liberal internationalism in a ‘keep calm and carry on lawyering’ fashion. However, this attitude of us (the internationalists) versus them (the populists) tends to present a geographically Western-centric and epistemologically euro- centric view of populism and international law. Two crucial aspects about populism and international law are overlooked in this narrow understanding: First, the role that international lawyers and institutions have played in institutionalising and upholding neoliberalism and therefore in creating a specific type of nationalist populist backlash; and second, the progressive forms of populism which may be compatible with a radical internationalism of solidarity. Key words: populism, international law, neoliberalism, multilateralism, solidarity Introduction 1. Internationalists versus Populists: A View from Above 2. International Lawyers as the Elites: A View from Below 3. International Legal Organisations: A Structural View 4. Conceptually and Historically Unsettling Populist versus Internationalist Binaries 5. Populism as a Tactic for a Multilateralism of Solidarity Conclusion ∗ Christine.Schwobel-Patel@Warwick.ac.uk. I am immensely grateful to Kelly-Jo Bluen, James Harrison, Mavluda Sattarova, and the anonymous reviewers for their comments. Many thanks also to Warwick Law School colleagues who commented on an earlier draft in a staff seminar. All errors remain my own. All websites were last accessed on 6 December 2018.