Events
Subtitle: the force of international law
By: edited by Fleur Johns, Richard Joyce, and Sundhya Pahuja
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Abingdon, Oxon; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 289
ISBN-13: 9780415554527; 9780203844465
Notes: "A GlassHouse book."

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The international law in force : anachronistic ethics and divine violence / Jennifer Beard; title: Absolute contingency and the prescriptive force of international law, Chiapas-Valladolid, ca. 1550? / Oscar Guardiola-Rivera; title: Latin roots : the force of international law as event / Peter Fitzpatrick; title: Westphalia : event, memory, myth / Richard Joyce; title: The force of a doctrine : Art. 38 of the PCIJ statute and the sources of international law / Thomas Skouteria; title: Paris 1793 and 1871 : levee en masse as event / Gerry Simpson; title: Decolonisation and the eventness of international law / Sundhya Pahuja; title: Postwar to new world order and post-socialist transition : 1989 as pseudo-event / Scott Newton; title: The liberation of Nelson Mandela : anatomy of a "happy event" in international law / Frédéric Mégret; title: Political trials as events / Emilios Christodoulidis; title: The Tokyo Women's Tribunal and the turn to fiction / Karen Knop; title: Many hundred thousand bodies later : an analysis of the "legacy" of the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda / Denise Ferreira da Silva; title: From the state to the union : international law and the appropriation of the new Europe / Patricia Tuitt; title: The emergence of the World Trade Organization : another triumph of corporate capitalism / Fiona Macmillan; title: The World Trade Organisation and development : victory of "rational choice" / Donatella Alessandrini; title: Protesting the WTO in Seattle : transnational citizen action, international law and the event / Ruth Buchanan; title: Globalism, memory and 9/11 : a critical third world perspective / Obiora Chinedu Okafor; title: Provoking international law : war and regime change in Iraq / John Strawson; title: The torture memos / Fleur Johns.