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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.
List of contents
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 ¿ ¿ ¿ ¿
IndexThe 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
About the author
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.
Summary
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.
