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Book SynopsisThis book employs insights from literature and the humanities to explore how international law can, once again, become a compelling language for our times. It argues that international lawyers are disabled by the governing idioms of international lawyering, and that they may be re-enabled by speaking international law in new and original ways.
Trade Reviewa 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 *
Table of Contents1: 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
