It suggests that international
lawyers are disabled by the governing idioms of international
lawyering, and proposes that they may be re-enabled by speaking different sorts of international
law, or by speaking international
law in different sorts of ways. In this methodologically diverse and unusually personal account, Gerry Simpson brings to the surface international
law’s hidden literary prose and offers a critical and redemptive account of the field. He does so in a series of chapters on international
law’s bathetic underpinnings, its friendly relations, the neurotic foundations of its underlying social...