13 September 2023 - International Law as a Set of Narratives
13 September 2023, 1-2 PM
Room 610
Melbourne Law School
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Brown Bag Seminar. International Law as a Set of Narratives
‘International Law as a Set of Narratives’ proposes a new approach to conceptualising international law. International law can be defined in several ways: as rules, processes, practices …many other approaches can be put forward. This book will construe international as a set of narratives and will concentrate on the production of meaning in international legal scholarship. In my argument, the production of meaning is a narrativisation process in which scholars create links between facts that do not have a meaning on their own. In an effort to explain how international lawyers create coherent stories and generate meaning in their writing, the book will identify elements that are instrumental in building a narrative. By bringing these narrativisation elements to light, the book will demonstrate how international law scholars create new necessary causalities between historical events, legal sources, doctrines, judgments and international practice to create meaning in a text and advance an argument.