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International Law and Architecture

Name: International Law and Architecture
Brand: Edward Elgar Publishing
SKU: 9781035339488
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Author: Renske Vos; Sofia Stolk; Miriam Bak McKenna
ISBN: 9781035339488

Edited by Renske Vos · Sofia Stolk · Miriam Bak McKenna

Edward Elgar Publishing December 2025

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ISBN-13: 9781035339488
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Publication: December 2025
Format: Hardback
Jurisdiction: U.K. ? Countri(es) for reference only

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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.

Chapters engage with questions surrounding the relationship between architecture and identity construction, public reception, (de)colonial ordering, affect and spatial politics. Offering a range of perspectives on the role of architecture in shaping international law, the impressive group of contributors set out a new transdisciplinary enquiry into law, space, and aesthetics. The book highlights how the material, visual, and spatial realms influence international law’s norms, values, histories, as well as our individual experiences and expectations of the law.

Illustrated by a rich array of images of signature international spaces, International Law and Architecture is a timely and essential resource for students of public international law, politics, and architecture. The book will also engage readers interested in the intersections of geography, urban studies, and legal practice.

Foreword xvi; Hilary Charlesworth; 1.
International Law and Architecture: A blueprint 1: Renske Vos, Miriam Bak McKenna and Sofia Stolk; PART I GROUNDS; 2.
A jurisprudence of gardens: International law, architecture and gardens of multitudes 19: Matilda Arvidsson; 3.
Inside-out: Autonomy, formalism and the legal architectures of outsider art 40: Lucy Finchett-Maddock; 4.
Rubble 63: Christine Schwöbel-Patel; 5.
Osteocartography: The architecture of international legal reproduction 77: Rose Sydney Parfitt; PART II CITYSCAPES; 6.
Urbicide in Ukraine. On the multiple lives of architecture in international law 80: Susanne Krasmann; 7.
Senate Square, Helsinki: Architecture, urban design, and resistance 98: Panu Minkkinen; 8.
Revisiting New Babylon: Architecture for a new society without institutions 115: Bart van Klink; 9.
‘The City [in] The City?’: Exploring international law’s architecture in York’s Human Rights City 135: Alice Trotter; PART III HEADQUARTERS; 10.
‘Creole’ modernisers and regional world-makers: Vignettes from the CEPAL building in Santiago (1957–66) and the: Kenyatta Centre in Nairobi (1967–73) 154; Julián Gómez-Delgado and Daniel R. Quiroga-Villamarín; 11.
The desire for value consensus in international law: Architectural aspirations of global institutions 174: Brydon T. Wang and Rain Liivoja; 12.
International law goes to Belém and to the Amazon: Institutional buildings and urban developments on the eve of: COP 30 199; Flávia do Amaral Vieira; 13.
Provisional permanence: The architecture of NATO’s successive seats 218: Sven Sterken; 14.
‘One world’: Defining cultural internationalism at UNESCO HQ 244: Miriam Bak McKenna; PART IV COURTS; 15.
Glass justice: On architecture, audience, and interaction in the ICC building 269: Sofia Stolk; 16.
Building the legal architecture of the Extraordinary Chamber in the Courts of Cambodia 288: Nhat-Minh Nguyen Le; 17.
Courts in a time of permacrisis: The architecture of presence in the digital era 307: Lorna Cameron; Epilogue 335; Rebecca Mignot-Mahdavi; Index 343