International Law and Architecture.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Vos, Renske.

Contributor:

Vos, Renske

Stolk, Sofia

Bak Mckenna, Miriam.

Edward Elgar Publishing, publisher.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

International law.

Law and aesthetics.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (378 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Northampton : Edward Elgar Publishing, 2025.

Summary:

Through eye-catching design or bureaucratic functionality, buildings make international law tangible for its practitioners, audiences and constituencies. This compelling book furthers our understanding of the impact of architecture on the field of international law with imagination and style.

Contents:

Front Matter

Copyright

Contents

List of figures

List of contributors

Acknowledgements

Foreword

Chapter 1: International Law and Architecture: A blueprint

PART I: Grounds

Chapter 2: A jurisprudence of gardens: International law, architecture and gardens of multitudes

Chapter 3: Inside-out: Autonomy, formalism and the legal architectures of outsider art

Chapter 4: Rubble

Chapter 5: Osteocartography: The architecture of international legal reproduction

PART II: Cityscapes

Chapter 6: Urbicide in Ukraine: On the multiple lives of architecture in international law

Chapter 7: Senate Square, Helsinki: Architecture, urban design, and resistance

Chapter 8: Revisiting New Babylon: Architecture for a new society without institutions

Chapter 9: 'The City [in] The City?': Exploring international law's architecture in York's Human Rights City

PART III: Headquarters

Chapter 10: 'Creole' modernisers and regional world-makers: Vignettes from the CEPAL building in Santiago (1957-66) and the Kenyatta Centre in Nairobi (1967-73)

Chapter 11: The desire for value consensus in international law: Architectural aspirations of global institutions

Chapter 12: International law goes to Belém and to the Amazon: Institutional buildings and urban developments on the eve of COP 30

Chapter 13: Provisional permanence: The architecture of NATO's successive seats

Chapter 14: 'One world': Defining cultural internationalism at UNESCO HQ

PART IV: Courts

Chapter 15: Glass justice: On architecture, audience, and interaction in the ICC building

Chapter 16: Building the legal architecture of the Extraordinary Chamber in the Courts of Cambodia

Chapter 17: Courts in a time of permacrisis: The architecture of presence in the digital era

Epilogue

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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ISBN:

1-03-533949-8

1-03-538028-5

9781035339495

OCLC:

1570093734