Events the force of international law

"A GlassHouse book."

Includes bibliographical references and index.

The international law in force : anachronistic ethics and divine violence / Jennifer Beard -- Absolute contingency and the prescriptive force of international law, Chiapas-Valladolid, ca. 1550? / Oscar Guardiola-Rivera -- Latin roots : the force of international law as event / Peter Fitzpatrick -- Westphalia : event, memory, myth / Richard Joyce -- The force of a doctrine : Art. 38 of the PCIJ statute and the sources of international law / Thomas Skouteria -- Paris 1793 and 1871 : levee en masse as event / Gerry Simpson -- Decolonisation and the eventness of international law / Sundhya Pahuja -- Postwar to new world order and post-socialist transition : 1989 as pseudo-event / Scott Newton -- The liberation of Nelson Mandela : anatomy of a "happy event" in international law / Frédéric Mégret -- Political trials as events / Emilios Christodoulidis -- The Tokyo Women's Tribunal and the turn to fiction / Karen Knop -- Many hundred thousand bodies later : an analysis of the "legacy" of the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda / Denise Ferreira da Silva -- From the state to the union : international law and the appropriation of the new Europe / Patricia Tuitt -- The emergence of the World Trade Organization : another triumph of corporate capitalism / Fiona Macmillan -- The World Trade Organisation and development : victory of "rational choice" / Donatella Alessandrini -- Protesting the WTO in Seattle : transnational citizen action, international law and the event / Ruth Buchanan -- Globalism, memory and 9/11 : a critical third world perspective / Obiora Chinedu Okafor -- Provoking international law : war and regime change in Iraq / John Strawson -- The torture memos / Fleur Johns.