11
Nov
6th Annual Symposium on Pop Culture and International Law: Who Can Speak for Earth? Representative Authority and First-Contact Governance in The Three-Body Problem
[Shaoxuan Xu is a PhD student in international law at Fudan University Law School and holds an LLM from New York University School of Law.] When Ye Wenjie receives an extraterrestrial warning, she already has the means to answer. The warning tells her that replying will let the Trisolarans locate Earth and bring conquest, yet she responds. Later, Mike Evans finances...