Overview
- Brings together several pieces approaching international law from an interdisciplinary perspective
- Offers alternative ways of looking at international law creating a multidisciplinary dialogue within one volume
- Furthers the ‘aesthetic turn’ within International Relations and International Law scholarship
Part of the book series: Palgrave Studies in International Relations (PSIR)
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About this book
This edited volume presents a collection of stories that experiment with different ways of looking at international law. By using different literary lenses -namely, storytelling, the novel, the drama, the collage, the self-portrait, and the museum- the authors shed light on elements of international law that usually remain unseen or unheard and expose the limits of what international law can do. We inquire into who the storytellers of international law are, the stages on which they tell their stories, and who are absent in these tales. We present it as a collection: a set of different essays that more or less deal with the same subject matter. Alternatively, we would like to call it a potpourri of stories, since the diversity of topics and approaches is eclectic and unconventional. By placing multiple perspectives alongside each other we aim to compare and contrast, to allow for second thoughts, and to rediscover. In doing so, we engage with the ambiguities of international law’s characters and spaces, and with the worldviews they reflect and worlds they create.
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Keywords
- Literature and Law
- International Law
- Storytelling
- International Relations
- International law and language
- Sexual Violence Case Law
- International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR)
- International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY)
- Jurisprudence
- Transnational Law
- Critical Legal Studies
- Socio-Legal Studies
Table of contents (8 chapters)
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Front Matter
Reviews
‘In light of the book’s novel content and its unique literary approach, it not only engages with recent critical scholarship on international law but perhaps more crucially, it also stands to push existing theoretical and conceptual debates forward into new terrain.’
— Suwita Hani Randhawa, Senior Lecturer in Politics and International Relations University of the West of England (Bristol, UK)
— Gerry Simpson, Professor of Public International Law, the London School of Economics and Political Science (London, UK)
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Sofia Stolk is a Researcher in International Law at the T.M.C. Asser Instituut/ University of Amsterdam, Netherlands
Renske Vos is a Lecturer and Researcher at the Department of Transnational Legal Studies at VU Amsterdam, Netherlands
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: International Law's Collected Stories
Editors: Sofia Stolk, Renske Vos
Series Title: Palgrave Studies in International Relations
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-58835-9
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Law and Criminology, Law and Criminology (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-58834-2Published: 20 December 2020
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-58837-3Published: 20 December 2021
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-58835-9Published: 19 December 2020
Series ISSN: 2946-2673
Series E-ISSN: 2946-2681
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XI, 142
Number of Illustrations: 3 b/w illustrations
Topics: Sources and Subjects of International Law, International Organizations, International Relations Theory, Literature, general