Thursday, December 9, 2021

Mbengue & d'Aspremont: Crisis Narratives in International Law

Makane Moïse Mbengue
(Univ. of Geneva) & Jean d'Aspremont (Sciences Po; Univ. of Manchester) have published Crisis Narratives in International Law (Brill | Nijhoff 2021). The table of contents is here. Here's the abstract:
This volume offers a series of short and highly self-reflective essays by leading international lawyers on the relation between international law and crises. It particularly shows that international law shapes the crises that it addresses as much as it is shaped by them. It critically evaluates the modes of intervention of international law in the problems of the world. Together these essays provide a unique stocktaking about the role, limits, and potential of international law as well as the worlds that are imagined through international lawyers’ vocabularies.