Events: The Force of International Law (Hardcover)

Foreword, Martti Koskenniemi 1. Introduction, Fleur Johns, Richard Joyce & Sundhya Pahuja 2. The International Law in Force: Anachronistic Ethics and Divine Violence, Jennifer Beard 3. Absolute Contingency and the Prescriptive Force of International Law, Chiapas-Valladolid, ca. 1550, Oscar Guardiola-Rivera 4. Latin Roots: The Force of International Law as Event, Peter Fitzpatrick 5. Westphalia: Event, Memory, Myth, Richard Joyce 6. The Force of a Doctrine: Art. 38 of the PCIJ Statute and the Sources of International Law, Thomas Skouteris 7. Paris 1793 and 1871: Levee en Masse as Event, Gerry Simpson 8. Decolonisation and the Eventness of International Law, Sundhya Pahuja 9. Postwar to New World Order and Post-Socialist Transition: 1989 As Pseudo-Event, Scott Newton 10. The Liberation of Nelson Mandela: Anatomy of a "Happy Event" in International Law, Frederic Megret 11. Political Trials as Events, Emilios Christodoulidis 12. The Tokyo Women’s Tribunal and the Turn to Fiction, Karen Knop 13. Many Hundred Thousand Bodies Later: An Analysis of the ‘Legacy’ of the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda, Denise Ferreira da Silva 14. From the State to the Union: International Law and the Appropriation of the New Europe, Patricia Tuitt 15. The Emergence of the World Trade Organization: Another Triumph of Corporate Capitalism? Fiona Macmillan 16. The World Trade Organisation and Development: Victory of ‘Rational Choice’? Donatella Alessandrini 17. Protesting the WTO in Seattle: Transnational Citizen Action, International Law and the Event, Ruth Buchanan 18. Globalism, Memory and 9/11: A Critical Third World Perspective, Obiora Chinedu Okafor 19. Provoking International Law: War and Regime Change in Iraq, John Strawson20. The Torture Memos, Fleur Johns