Three Lives of International Lawyers and the War Unleashed
Journal: Myśl Polityczna Political Thought
Year: 2023

The article encourages self-reflection on the teaching, research, and practice of international law. Three alternative biographies of the main character in Das Glasperlenspiel (The Glass Bead Game) by Hermann Hesse provide starting points for considering the possible ways in which international lawyers contributed to the Russian aggression against Ukraine. The author argues that transformation, deformalization, and instrumentalization have led to the weaponization of ius contra bellum. Russian a