International Law's Collected Stories

149 Pages·2020·2.117 MB·English

by  Sofia Stolk, Renske Vos

International Law’s
Collected Stories
Edited by
Sofi a Stolk
Renske Vos
Palgrave Studies in International Relations
Series Editors
Mai’a K. Davis Cross
Northeastern University
Boston, MA, USA
Benjamin de Carvalho
Norwegian Institute of International Affairs
Oslo, Norway
Shahar Hameiri
University of Queensland
St. Lucia, QLD, Australia
Knud Erik Jørgensen
University of Aarhus
Aarhus, Denmark
Ole Jacob Sending
Norwegian Institute of International Affairs
Oslo, Norway
Ayşe Zarakol
University of Cambridge
Cambridge, UK
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Mai’a K. Davis Cross is the Edward W. Brooke Professor of Political
Science at Northeastern University, USA, and Senior Researcher at the
ARENA Centre for European Studies, University of Oslo, Norway.
Benjamin de Carvalho is a Senior Research Fellow at the Norwegian
Institute of International Affairs (NUPI), Norway.
Shahar Hameiri is Associate Professor of International Politics and
Associate Director of the Graduate Centre in Governance and International
Affairs, School of Political Science and International Studies, University of
Queensland, Australia.
Knud Erik Jørgensen is Professor of International Relations at Aarhus
University, Denmark, and at Yaşar University, Izmir, Turkey.
Ole Jacob Sending is the Research Director at the Norwegian Institute
of International Affairs (NUPI), Norway.
Ayşe Zarakol is Reader in International Relations at the University of
Cambridge and a fellow at Emmanuel College, UK.
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Sofia Stolk • Renske Vos
Editors
International Law’s
Collected Stories
Editors
Sofia Stolk Renske Vos
T.M.C. Asser Instituut / VU Amsterdam
University of Amsterdam Amsterdam, The Netherlands
The Hague, The Netherlands
Palgrave Studies in International Relations
ISBN 978-3-030-58834-2 ISBN 978-3-030-58835-9 (eBook)
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This edited volume presents a collection of stories that experiment with
different ways of looking at international law. By using different literary
lenses–namely, storytelling, the novel, the drama, the collage, the self-
portrait, and the museum–the authors shed light on elements of interna-
tional law that usually remain unseen or unheard and expose the limits of
what international law can do. We inquire into who the storytellers of
international law are, the stages on which they tell their stories, and who
are absent in these tales. We present it as a collection: a set of chapters that
more or less deal with the same subject matter. Alternatively, we would
like to call it a potpourri of stories, since the diversity of topics and
approaches is eclectic and unconventional. By placing multiple perspec-
tives alongside each other we aim to compare and contrast, to allow for
second thoughts, and to rediscover. In doing so, we engage with the
ambiguities of international law’s characters and spaces, and with the
worldviews they reflect and worlds they create.
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1 Once Upon a Time in International Law… 1
Sofia Stolk and Renske Vos
2 Pride and Prejudice: Jane Austen and the (In)ability
to Speak International Law 17
Elisabeth Schweiger and Aoife O’Leary McNeice
3 Staging International Law’s Stories: Kapo in Jerusalem 37
Mark Drumbl
4 A Story that Can(not) be Told: Sexual Violence against
Men in ICTR and ICTY Jurisprudence 57
Thomas Charman
5 T he Desire to be an International Law City: A Self-Portrait
of The Hague and Amsterdam 79
Lisa Roodenburg and Sofia Stolk
6 International Legal Collage of an Ideal City 97
Miha Marčenko
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7 The Museum of White Terror, Taipei: ‘Children,
don’t talk politics’ 115
Renske Vos and Owen Zong-Syuan Han
8 Becoming Epilogual 137
Gerry Simpson
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Thomas Charman is a postdoctoral fellow at the Institute for Advanced
Studies in the Humanities, University of Edinburgh.
Mark Drumbl is the Class of 1975 Alumni Professor at Washington and
Lee University, School of Law.
Owen Zong-Syuan Han is an LLM student at the National Taiwan
University.
Miha Marčenko is a PhD candidate at the T.M.C. Asser Instituut /
University of Amsterdam.
Aoife O’Leary McNeice is a PhD candidate in the Faculty of History,
University of Cambridge.
Lisa Roodenburg is a PhD candidate at the T.M.C. Asser Instituut /
University of Amsterdam.
Elisabeth  Schweiger is an associate lecturer in the Department of
Politics, York University.
Gerry Simpson is Professor of Public International Law at the London
School of Economics and Political Science.
Sofia Stolk is a researcher in International Law at the T.M.C. Asser
Instituut / University of Amsterdam.
Renske Vos is a lecturer and researcher in the Department of Transnational
Legal Studies at VU Amsterdam.
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Fig. 7.1 Students gathered around the tour guide. (Photo: Renske Vos) 119
Fig. 7.2 ‘Keep Silent’ propaganda message. (Photo: Owen
Zong- Syuan Han) 126
Fig. 7.3 Students pass the statue of a lion created and donated by a
former prisoner standing in front of the prison entrance. The
characters on the prison façade read: ‘collaborate & fight the
enemy’. (Photo: Renske Vos) 132
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