Scholar Ledger
ஆய்வாளர் பதிவேடுWho is read for what, and what each refuses to assert
A matrix of the scholars cited across the case file. For each scholar: the question they answer best, what they refuse to assert, and the page on this site that uses them. Tamil scholarship — Guruparan, Ananthavinayagan, Sterio, Fernando, UTHR(J) — is foregrounded. The ledger exists so a reader can see, at one glance, the doctrinal weight behind any claim on this site.
Tamil scholarship — foregrounded
Kumaravadivel Guruparan
tlte-cite:guruparan-ucl-2019- Answers
- What minimum constitutional restructuring would meet the Aaland / Quebec safeguard-clause standard for Sri Lanka.
- Refuses
- To argue for remedial secession as established law; he frames the question constitutionally.
- Used on
- /case/framing/remedial-self-determination · /case/civic-repair
Thamil Venthan Ananthavinayagan
tlte-cite:ananthavinayagan-phrg-2018- Answers
- How the post-2009 constitutional record reads against the Quebec §134 internal-self-determination threshold.
- Refuses
- To assert the §135 internal-blockage condition is satisfied; he leaves the conclusion hedged.
- Used on
- /case/framing/remedial-self-determination · /case/law
Milena Sterio
tlte-cite:sterio-routledge-sd- Answers
- How the great-powers configuration shapes which self-determination claims are recognised.
- Refuses
- To treat doctrine as sufficient for recognition; her thesis is realist constraint, not legitimation.
- Used on
- /case/framing/remedial-self-determination · /case/stabiliser
Jude Lal Fernando
tlte-cite:fernando-snu-sd- Answers
- The political-theological register of the self-determination question that doctrinal accounts elide.
- Refuses
- To collapse the moral register into the legal register.
- Used on
- /case/framing/remedial-self-determination
UTHR(J) — University Teachers for Human Rights (Jaffna)
tlte-cite:uthr-j- Answers
- The intra-Tamil critique of LTTE-era political killings, suppression of dissent, recruitment practices.
- Refuses
- To exempt the LTTE from human-rights critique on grounds of the wider cause.
- Used on
- /case/framing/contested-sovereignty · /case/ltte-era/human-ledger · /unmai/desk/attribution
International-law scholarship
Antonio Cassese
tlte-cite:cassese-self-determination-1995- Answers
- The five-element doctrinal test for remedial secession (Self-Determination of Peoples, OUP 1995); and as STL President, the customary-definition-of-terrorism holding (STL-11-01/I, 2011).
- Refuses
- To assert his five-element test as lex lata; he marks it as doctrinal proposal.
- Used on
- /case/framing/remedial-self-determination · /case/framing/defining-terrorism
James Crawford
- Answers
- The classical international-law account of statehood (The Creation of States in International Law, OUP 2006).
- Refuses
- To equate recognition with entitlement; he separates the two.
- Used on
- /case/framing/glossary · /case/contested-sovereignty
- Answers
- Why there is no customary international-law crime of terrorism (Defining Terrorism in International Law, OUP 2006).
- Refuses
- To pretend the political contestation over the term can be resolved by judicial fiat.
- Used on
- /case/framing/defining-terrorism
Kai Ambos
tlte-cite:ambos-stl-critique-2011- Answers
- The rebuttal of the STL Ayyash holding on customary terrorism definition (Leiden JIL, 2011).
- Refuses
- To accept Cassese's STL formulation as binding on the rest of international law.
- Used on
- /case/framing/defining-terrorism
Allen Buchanan
tlte-cite:buchanan-rro-2004- Answers
- The Remedial Right Only (RRO) philosophical theory of secession (Justice, Legitimacy, and Self-Determination, OUP 2004).
- Refuses
- Plebiscitary or nationalist theories of secession; he rejects both.
- Used on
- /case/framing/remedial-self-determination
Marc Weller
tlte-cite:weller-kosovo-2008- Answers
- Why Kosovo is sui generis and the precedent does not generalise (Brill 2008 and subsequent).
- Refuses
- To treat Kosovo AO 2010 as having affirmed a general right of remedial secession.
- Used on
- /case/framing/remedial-self-determination
Nina Caspersen
tlte-cite:caspersen-de-facto-2012- Answers
- How the international system should treat de facto states (Polity, 2012).
- Refuses
- To equate effective governance with governance to international human-rights standards.
- Used on
- /case/framing/contested-sovereignty
Scott Pegg
tlte-cite:pegg-de-facto-1998- Answers
- The four-element working definition of a de facto state (Routledge, 1998).
- Refuses
- To convert descriptive criteria into a recognition entitlement.
- Used on
- /case/framing/contested-sovereignty
Jelena Pejic (ICRC)
tlte-cite:icrc-pejic-ct-ihl- Answers
- Why IHL and counter-terrorism are distinct legal regimes that should not be conflated.
- Refuses
- To exempt any party from IHL on the grounds of the other party's CT designation.
- Used on
- /case/framing/defining-terrorism · /case/framing/contested-sovereignty
Sri Lankan and South Asia scholarship
A. J. Wilson
tlte-cite:wilson-1988- Answers
- The constitutional-history account of the Sri Lankan Tamil federalist tradition (The Break-up of Sri Lanka, 1988).
- Refuses
- Mono-causal narratives of conflict origin; his account is structural.
- Used on
- /case/labelling · /case/framing/contested-sovereignty · /case/foundation
Stanley J. Tambiah
tlte-cite:tambiah-1986- Answers
- The ethnographic and political-sociological account (Sri Lanka: Ethnic Fratricide, 1986).
- Refuses
- Reductive ethnicity-as-cause framings; he treats ethnicity as politically mobilised.
- Used on
- /case/labelling
Sumantra Bose
tlte-cite:bose-contested-lands-2007- Answers
- The comparative-secession reading (Contested Lands, 2007), including the Bangladesh 1971 comparator.
- Refuses
- To equate the Eelam and Bangladesh cases; he handles the comparator carefully.
- Used on
- /case/labelling
Neil DeVotta
- Answers
- The structural-majoritarianism reading (Blowback, 2004; subsequent work).
- Refuses
- Symmetric-grievance framings; his account is asymmetric.
- Used on
- /case/framing/contested-sovereignty · /case/foundation
Nira Wickramasinghe
- Answers
- The longue-durée political-history account (Sri Lanka in the Modern Age, multiple editions).
- Refuses
- Single-frame readings; she treats multiple structural histories.
- Used on
- /case/foundation · /case/civic-repair
International Crisis Group · Sri Lanka file
tlte-cite:icg-srilanka- Answers
- Tier-A monitoring of the conflict and post-conflict period (2009–present).
- Refuses
- Verdicts; ICG is positioned as analysis, not adjudication.
- Used on
- /case/labelling · /case/post-2009-ledger · /unmai/
What this ledger is not
- · Not exhaustive. The case file cites scholars not listed here; this is the framing-relevant subset.
- · Not a curriculum. TLTE does not certify any of these readings.
- · Not an endorsement of every position. Each entry records what we use the scholar for; we cite their refusals too.