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Author: Jack Provan

29 Oct

Fourth Annual Symposium on Pop Culture and International Law: Dune’s Great Convention – An Analogy for International Law

[Jack Provan was born in Glasgow, Scotland, and is currently working on his PhD in International Criminal Law at Ruhr University Bochum in Germany.] Denis Villeneuve’s recent film adaptation of Frank Herbert’s novel Dune has returned sandworms, spice, and galactic warfare to the popular zeitgeist. It was also adapted into a film in 1984 by David Lynch, but the less said...

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