Author: Tamara Grigoras

Fifth Annual Symposium on Pop Culture and International Law: Gotta Catch’ Em All (But Not Quite)! Beauty, Utility and the Hierarchies of Life in Pokémon and International Law

[Tamara Grigoras is a PhD candidate in public international law at the University of Fribourg (Switzerland) and a research fellow at the Waseda Graduate School of Law (Japan)] Not all creatures are equal. Or so do human animals tend to think. This belief, in turn, underpins and informs most human-made norms and institutions. As normative systems, both the Pokémon gaming universe...