Introduction: The Aesthetics of International Law

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Acknowledgments ix
4. Introduction: The Aesthetics of International Law 1
5. 1. Edgar Allan Poe: Law and Terrorism 7
6. 2. Henrik Ibsen and Bertolt Brecht: War Crimes Trials 16
7. 3. Joseph Conrad, Virginia Woolf, T.S. Eliot: Public International Law 28
8. 4. James Joyce: Conflict of Laws 45
9. 5. Franz Kafka: Extraterritorial Criminal Law 73
10. 6. Mordecai Richler: Universal Jurisdiction 95
11. 7. Vladimir Nabokov: Extradition to the Death Penalty 104
12. 8. Jorge Luis Borges: The Break-up of Yugoslavia 116
13. 9. Thomas Pynchon: Environmental Liability 133
14. 10. Kurt Vonnegut: The Law of War 150
15. Conclusion: For a New Scholarship 164
16. Epilogue: Pound of Flesh 170
17. Notes 177
18. Index 269