1st Edition

Backstage Practices of Transnational Law

Edited By Lianne J.M. Boer, Sofia Stolk Copyright 2019
196 Pages
by Routledge

196 Pages
by Routledge

196 Pages
by Routledge

This book explores the ‘backstage’ of transnational legal practice by illuminating the routines and habits that are crucial to the field, yet rarely studied. Through innovative discussion of practices often considered trivial, the book encourages readers to conceptualise the ‘backstage’ as emblematic of transnational legal practice. Expanding the focus of transnational legal scholarship, the book... Read more

List of contributors

List of figures

1 Backstage practices of transnational law

LIANNE J.M. BOER AND SOFIA STOLK ¿ ¿ ¿ ¿

2 Handshakes and hashtags in the ICC

JILLIAN DOBSON ¿ ¿

3 The pace of law (in a transnational time)

GEOFF GORDON ¿ ¿

4 Let us save our good project: looking at an international law gathering to workshop chapters for a volume

JOHN D. HASKELL ¿ ¿

5 ‘All the world’s a stage’: constituting international justice at the ICC’s Assembly of States Parties meeting

MARIEKE DE HOON AND KJERSTI LOHNE ¿ ¿

6 Academic travel and exclusion in the backstage of transnational legal practice

JESSICA C. LAWRENCE ¿ ¿

7 Blind justice and the portraits on the wall

SARAH-JANE KOULEN ¿ ¿

8 Logistics of participation in international law

AMIN PARSA

9 Insta-scholarship: the self-branding practices of the ‘digital humanitarian’

CHRISTINE SCHWÖBEL-PATEL ¿ ¿

10 A walk along the Rue de la Loi: EU façades as front- and backstage of transnational legal practice

RENSKE VOS ¿ ¿

11 Moot courts, theatre and rehearsal practices

WOUTER WERNER ¿ ¿

12 Epilogue: critical intimacy and the performance of international law

ANNE ORFORD ¿ ¿ ¿ ¿

Index

 

The symbols listed here suggest different routes you may take through this book. In the Introduction, we provide an account of what these routes signify.

¿ Route 1 – The guided tour

¿ Route 2 – The rehearsal space

¿ Route 3 – A day in the life of a legal academic

¿ Route 4 – A drink in the foyer

Biography

Lianne J.M. Boer is Assistant Professor of Transnational Legal Studies at the Faculty of Law, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam and a Research Fellow at the Centre for the Politics of Transnational Law.

Sofia Stolk is a postdoctoral researcher at the T.M.C. Asser Institute/University of Amsterdam and a Research Fellow at the Centre for the Politics of Transnational Law.