1: A plea for new international laws
2: The sentimental lives of international lawyers
3: International law's comic disposition
4: "Bluebeard on trial": the experience of bathos
5: An uncertain style: after method in international legal
history
6: A declaration on friendly relations
7: Gardening, instead, or, of pastoral international law
Postlude: last thoughts on sentimentality
Gerry Simpson is a Professor of International Law at LSE. He
previously held the Sir Kenneth Bailey Chair of Law at Melbourne
Law School and studied law at the University of Aberdeen, the
University of British Columbia, and the University of Michigan (Ann
Arbor). He is the author of Great Powers and Outlaw States
(Cambridge, 2004) (awarded the American Society of International
Law's annual prize, and translated into several languages) and Law,
War and
Crime: War Crimes Trials and the Reinvention of International Law
(Polity, 2008). Gerry is currently co-directing a project on the
Cold War (with Matt Craven and Sundhya Pahuja) and writing a
meditation on
nuclearism entitled The Atomics: Life, Love and Death at the End of
the World.
a formidable reassessment of the very elements, often unspoken,
that compose the distinct character of international law and
lawyers and how we relate to international legal life.
*Andre Nunes Chaib, International Law Agendas*
More importantly, Gerry Simpson invites us to think it is worth
engaging in alternative modes of tackling pressing global issues.
That for all the epic but deceitful accounts advanced by the
governing orthodoxies, there is still some space for sentimental,
blasphemous ways of reflecting on our identity and building a new
vision where sentiment without illusion helps redeem international
law.
*Julian Huertas, International Law Agendas*
Simpson's homonymous article helped open the discipline's doors to
inquiries into international law's 'personal life' as not only a
scientific, but sentimental enterprise. The book has not
disappointed in expanding this insight
*LUIZA LEÃO SOARES PEREIRA, International Law Agendas*
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