Routledge Handbook of International Law and the Humanities, Shane Chalmers and Sundhya Pahuja (eds)

This Handbook brings together 40 of the world’s leading scholars and rising stars who study international law from disciplines in the humanities – from history to literature, philosophy to the visual arts – to showcase the distinctive contributions that this field has made to the study of international law over the past two decades.

Chapter Contributions

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  • Gregor Noll

    Chapter 2 - Life in the Ruins: International Law as Doctrine and Discipline

  • Gerry Simpson

    Chapter 4 - The Atomics

  • Alice Palmer

    Chapter 7 - Absent Images of International Law

  • James E K Parker

    Chapter 8 - Listening about Law in the Sonic Arts: John Cage’s 4’33” and Lawrence Abu Hamdan’s Saydnaya (the missing 19dB)

  • Olivia Barr

    Chapter 10 - Wayfaring Methods

  • Laura Petersen

    Chapter 11 - Foot Notes. Reflections on Method and Form

  • Isobel Roele

    Chapter 17 - We Are Making a New World

  • Ruth Buchanan

    Chapter 24 - Revisiting Local Hero

  • Dianne Otto

    Chapter 25 - The Politics of Legibility: ‘The Family’ in International Human Rights Law

  • Lee Godden

    Chapter 28 - Law and Sacrifice in Australian Extra-Territorial Nation Spaces: The Residue of Empire

  • Sophie Rigney

    Chapter 30 - The Meeting of Laws in Australian Children’s Literature

  • Kathleen Birrell and Julia Dehm

    Chapter 31 - International Law and the Humanities in the ‘Anthropocene’

  • Matilda Arvidsson

    Chapter 32 - Who, or What, is the Human of International Humanitarian Law?

  • Connal Parsley

    Chapter 33 - Automating Authority: The Human and Automation in Legal Discourse on the Meaningful Human Control of Lethal Autonomous Weapons Systems

  • Sara Ramshaw

    Chapter 34 - Rainbow Family: Machine Listening, Improvisation and Access to Justice in International Family Law

  • Maria Elander

    Chapter 35 - In the Name of the Victim: Representing Victims in International Criminal Justice