Spaces of International Law

Pearson, Zoe

doi:10.1080/10383621.2008.10854621

Cited by 25 publications

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“…Clark 2010;Karstedt et al 2012;Palmer 2015;Ingelaere 2016). As such, these perspectives are related to concepts of different "scales of justice" that combine ideas about jurisdiction and geography (Pearson 2008;Fraser 2009;Valverde 2015). They also have affinities with legal scholarship on inter-legality (de Sousa Santos 2002) and, from social science more broadly, glocalization studies (Robertson 2018).…”

Section: Three Conceptions Of Space and Powermentioning

confidence: 99%

Justice Sites and the Fight against Atrocity Crimes

Christensen¹

2022

Law Soc. Inq.

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This article develops a new conceptual framework designed to critically study how locality and transversal power relations structure activity and developments in the global field of international criminal justice. The framework is built around the concept of “justice sites,” defined as localities in which organized and social labor—in this case, working with international criminal justice—takes place. The potential effects of social labor performed in specific sites of justice are structured partly by their locality and the resources to which it gives access and partly by their structural position in wider transversal chains of cooperation and competition that cut across different globalized and national fields. In addition to structuring the connections between justice sites, transversal power relations link sites of justice to “practice sites” embedded in other fields in which localized, social labor is not routinely engaged with international criminal justice. Such linkages demonstrate how the framework, developed to study how locality and transversal relations shape the fight against atrocity crimes, can also be used to investigate sites engaged in and across other globalized and national fields of justice, law, governance, and security.

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Section: Three Conceptions Of Space and Powermentioning

confidence: 99%

Justice Sites and the Fight against Atrocity Crimes

Christensen¹

2022

Law Soc. Inq.

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“…But this means more, or rather something different, than replacing one scale and site of law (the national, the municipal) with a wider legal frame (the international, the global). Political and legal geography would benefit from bringing these larger legal frames into view in order to better understand how it is that war 'gets done' in and through international and transnational spaces (see Jeffrey, 2011;Pearson, 2008). But this does not render other scales and sites of law, such as domestic courts, local legal protests, or even seemingly idiosyncratic legal technicalities and procedures redundant (Benson, 2014;Riles, 2005).…”

Section: Why Lawfare Needs Geography and Why It Matters To Geographymentioning

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Lawfare and the juridification of late modern war

Jones

2015

Progress in Human Geography

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Processes of juridification are a defining feature of late modern war. But geographic accounts of war have generally not considered the role that law plays in shaping its conduct. This paper explores the juridification of war using the concept of lawfare. Lawfare may signal an intensification and shift in the relationship between war and law, but I argue that understanding the nature and extent of these changes requires a careful examination of the historical geographies of war, law and lawfare. Drawing from critical legal approaches I offer a preliminary geographical and historical theorization of lawfare so that we may better understand the relationship between war and law today.

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“…For its part, legal geography has tended to focus on political spaces internal to (mostly advanced, liberal Western) states and largely neglected the specifically international and transnational dimensions of law, as well as the legal geographies of war (see Braverman et al, 2014). Significantly, neither field has engaged adequately with international law as a distinct body of law with its own historical geography and contemporary spatio-temporal dimensions (Anghie, 2007;Benton, 2010;Pearson, 2008;Rajagopal, 2003).…”

Section: War/law/spacementioning

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War/Law/Space Notes toward a legal geography of war

Jones

Smith

2015

Environ Plan D

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Abstract. To some degree war has always entailed its rhetorics of justification and regimes of authorization. Today, however, war and law have become inseparable; now more than ever, war requires a legal armature to secure its legitimacy and organize its conduct. Our introduction (and the special issue more broadly) investigates this lethal conjunction of law and war across space and time. To capture the interplay of war, law and space-time, we conceive them as forming a kind of nexus or set of entanglements. Adapting legal geographer Nick Blomley's (1989) concept of the "law-space nexus", we call this the war/ law/space nexus. Our discussion highlights some of its main features and introduces the subsequent papers that make up this special issue.

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Spaces of International Law

Cited by 25 publications

References 30 publications

Justice Sites and the Fight against Atrocity Crimes

Justice Sites and the Fight against Atrocity Crimes

Lawfare and the juridification of late modern war

War/Law/Space Notes toward a legal geography of war

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