In Praise of Disorder: Conceptualising Events in International Law
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In Praise of Disorder: Conceptualising Events in International Law
German Yearbook of International Law, Online First : pp. 1–22
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Dr. Rebecca Mignot-Mahdavi,
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Abstract: Important moves have been made in international legal scholarship to uncover and challenge the dominant – linear and unidirectional – approaches to time that have dominated international legal thought and practice. These dominant approaches have been robustly criticised for drawing on a temporal relationship where the past, present, and future are interconnected by a unidirectional causality. In order to successfully break with such approaches, however, one crucial move is missing in this scholarly endeavor. In order to rigorously analyse, and possibly break with such approaches one must pay closer attention to
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| Section Title | Page | Action | Price |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rebecca Mignot-Mahdavi\nIn Praise of Disorder: Conceptualising Events in International Law | 1 | ||
| Introduction | 2 | ||
| I. Of Treaty Signatures, Trials, and Court Decisions: The Laborious Move Away from Order and Linearity | 5 | ||
| A. Events as Markers of Short-Term Time in International Law Histories | 6 | ||
| B. Events as Artifacts of Convenience in International Law Histories | 8 | ||
| II. Conceptualising Events as Polymorphous Constructs | 12 | ||
| A. Making Constructivism Explicit in International Law Histories | 13 | ||
| B. Events Beyond Short-Termism: Disrupting Orderly Narratives in International Law Histories | 17 | ||
| Conclusion | 22 |