The Sentimental Life of International Law: Literature, Language, and Longing in World Politics

by Gerry Simpson

The Sentimental Life of International Law is about our age-old longing for a decent international society and the ways of seeing, being, and speaking that might help us achieve that aim. This book asks how international lawyers might engage in a professional practice that has become, to adapt a title of Janet Malcolm's, both difficult and impossible. It suggests that international lawyers are disabled by the governing idioms of international lawyering,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0192849794
• ISBN13: 9780192849793
• Release Date: February 2022
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 8.9"