A time-map for international law: 2017 Cambridge International Law Journal–Lauterpacht Centre for International Law Annual Lecture
Journal: Cambridge International Law Journal
Year: 2018

Hannah Arendt was a German-Jewish witness of the grand infamies of the twentieth-century, a classicist, a political theorist, a social commentator and a cartographer of time. In that last capacity, she presents the international lawyer with a set of concepts to gauge the meaning of international legal time, its relationship to international history, and the part of international law in triggering new historical cycles. Three concepts developed by her stand out for how an international lawyer mig