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Author: Aoife O'Donoghue

30 Oct

Third Annual Symposium on Pop Culture and International Law: Three Tales of Omelas – Utopia, Harm and International Law

[Ruth Houghton is a Senior Lecturer at Newcastle Law School (UK). Aoife O’Donoghue is a Professor in the School of Law at Queen’s University Belfast.] Given the disdain with which international legal scholarship holds utopian thinking, it is perhaps surprising that international law has its own utopian literature, its own genre of utopias. And we’re not just talking about Philip Allott’s...

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