Towards Verbalizing Multilingual N-Ary Relations

Demey, Yan Tang; Heath, Clifford

doi:10.1007/978-3-662-43585-4_6

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“…Conflict between EU institutions, for instance not approving each other's budget or insisting on a certain exclusivity, meant severe delays were incurred in both the building and the renovation of Le Berlaymont. 109 The point is that there is not just one EU: it is made up out of Member States, institutions and divisions, all with different alliances and different issues at play. Between their scheming and bickering a workable path must be found.…”

Section: Audience Expectationsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Law in concrete: institutional architecture in Brussels and The Hague

Vos

Stolk

2020

Law and Humanities

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One of the most iconic and concrete encounters one can have with international law is to visit its institutional buildings. This article aims to shed light on the ambivalent aspirations reflected by the architectural design of the International Criminal Court in The Hague and the European Union buildings in Brussels. It provides a sightseeing tour through the architectural landscape of these two 'legal capitals' and explores the architectural embodiment of international law's imaginaries through discussing three main issues: (1) the representation of values and needs; (2) embeddedness within the city; (3) audience expectations. It argues that the physical sites of institutional buildings and the public events that take place at these sites are not trivial to the practice of international law. These sites and the activities and interactions on their grounds (re)produce stories that affect our understanding of what international institutions are and what they mean to us. In particular in the international setting, where institutional legitimacy is not a given, the building's architecture is an important means of communication. This article explores how the architectural design invites or discourages engagement and how it facilitates an encounter between the institutions and their multiple audiences.

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Section: Audience Expectationsmentioning

confidence: 99%