Routledge Handbook of International Law and the Humanities

Shane Chalmers is a University of Melbourne McKenzie research fellow and Program Director in Law and Art at Institute for International Law and the Humanities (IILAH), Melbourne Law School. He is the author of Liberia and the Dialectic of Law: Critical Theory, Pluralism, and the Rule of Law (Routledge, 2018) and a forthcoming critical literary-legal history of the colonisation of Australia.Sundhya Pahuja is a professor and the Director of Melbourne Law School’s Institute for International Law and the Humanities (IILAH), The University of Melbourne. Sundhya has written widely on the history, theory and practice of international law in both its political and economic dimensions.

• Introduction Practice, Craft and Ethos: Inheriting a Tradition Part 1: Formation 1. Modus Vivendi: Office of Transnational Jurisprudent 2. Life in the Ruins: International Law as Doctrine and Discipline 3. Receiving Traditions of Civility, Remaking Conditions of Cohabitation: A Genealogy of Politics, Law and Piety in South Asia 4. The atomics 5. Tender Images: Characters of Private International Law in the Humanities 6. A Training in Conduct Part 2: Sense 7. Absent Images of International Law 8. Listening about Law in the Sonic Arts: John Cage’s 4’33” and Lawrence Abu Hamdan’s Saydnaya (the missing 19dB) 9. Criminal Procedure and the Humanities: Questions of Method and Orientation 10. Wayfaring Methods 11. Foot Notes. Reflections on Method and Form 12. Critical Humanities and the Human of International Human Rights Law Part 3: World-Making 13. Certain (mis)Conceptions: Westphalian Origins, Portraiture and Wampum 14. The Travels of Human Rights: The UNESCO Human Rights Exhibition 1950-53 15. International Law, Literature and Worldmaking 16. Sunil Gangopadhyay’s Lord-Healer of Lost Cases, with a Translators Afterword: Cultivating a Postcolonial Literary Legal Imagination 17. We Are Making a New World Part 4: History-Telling 18. The Time of Revolution: Decolonisation, Heterodox International Legal Historiography and the Problem of the Contemporary 19. A Double Take on Debt: Reparations Claims and Shifting Regimes of Visibility 20. ‘The Object is to Frighten Him with Hope’: Questioning the Tragic Emplotments of International Law and Decolonisation in the Chagos Archipelago 21. Contested Histories: Revisiting the Relationship between International Law and Slavery 22. ‘Space is the Only Way to Go’: The Evolution of the Extractivist Imaginary of International Law 23. International Law and the Production of New Resources: Lessons from the Colonisation of Mars 24. Revisiting Local Hero Part 5: Community 25. The Politics of Legibility: ‘The Family’ in International Human Rights Law 26. International Law at the Border: Refugee Deaths, the Necropolitical State and Sovereign Accountability 27. Towards a Carceral Geography of International Law 28. Law and Sacrifice in Australian Extra-Territorial Nation Spaces: The Residue of Empire 29. Living Together after Violent Conflict: Museum-Making as Lawful Truth-Making 30. The Meeting of Laws in Australian Children’s Literature Part 6: Concepts for Our Times 31. International Law and the Humanities in the ‘Anthropocene’ 32. Who, or What, is the Human of International Humanitarian Law? 33. Automating Authority: The Human and Automation in Legal Discourse on the Meaningful Human Control of Lethal Autonomous Weapons Systems 34. Rainbow Family: Machine Listening, Improvisation and Access to Justice in International Family Law 35. In the Name of the Victim: Representing Victims in International Criminal Justice 36. A Sovereignty that is ‘Useless to Fascism’