International Law's Invisible Frames Social Cognition and Knowledge Production in International Legal Processes

by Bianchi, Andrea; Hirsch, Moshe

• ISBN13: 9780192847539
• ISBN10: 0192847538
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2021-12-28
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Author Biography

Andrea Bianchi, Professor of International Law, Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, Geneva,Moshe Hirsch, Maria Von Hofmannsthal Chair in International Law, Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Andrea Bianchi is Full Professor of International Law at the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, Geneva. Previously, he was Full Professor at the Catholic University in Milan; Associate Professor at the University of Parma, and Professorial Lecturer at the Johns Hopkins SAIS
Bologna Centre. His publications address topics that range from international legal theory and treaty interpretation, human rights and international humanitarian law, terrorism and counterterrorism, to the law of jurisdiction and jurisdictional immunities, state responsibility, non-state actors, and
the law of treaties.

Moshe Hirsch is the Von Hofmannsthal Chair in International Law at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He specializes in international economic law and international legal theory, with a particular emphasis on the sociology of international law. A significant part of his work involves
interdisciplinary research that employs sociological theories, game theory, political economy, and international relations theory.

Table of Contents

Introduction
Section I. Social Cognition: Foregrounding Information Processing and Recontextualizing International Law
1. Social Cognitive Studies, Sociological Theory, and International Law, Moshe Hirsch
2. Framing in and Through Public International Law, Anne van Aaken and Jan-Philip Elm
3. Cognitive Biases and International Law: What's the Point of Critique?, Ingo Venzke
4. Institutionally Embodied Law: Cognitive Linguistics and the Making of International Law, Jacob Livingston Slosser and5 Mikael Rask Madsen
5. Prosociality, International Law, and Humanitarian Intervention, Tomer Broude
6. A Worldly Law in a Legal World, Jean d'Aspremont
7. The Invisible Frames Affecting Wartime Investigations: Legal Epistemology, Metaphors, and Cognitive Biases, Shiri Krebs
8. Labels as the Visible Part of International Law's Invisible Frames: The Case of the Framework Convention on Tobacco Control as an 'Evidence-Based' Treaty, Margherita Melillo
Section II. Making Knowledge Production Visible: Structures, Actors, and Processes
9. Knowledge Production in International Law: Forces and Processes, Andrea Bianchi
10. The Discipline as a Field of Struggle: The Politics and Economics of Knowledge Production in International Law, Akbar Rasulov
11. Reflections on the ITU: International Organizations as Epistemic Structures, Jan Klabbers
12. Metaphors of International Law, Harlan Grant Cohen
13. Counterstorytelling in International Economic Law, Matthew Windsor
14. Revisiting the Memory of Solferino: Knowledge Production and the Laws of War, Eyal Benvenisti and Doreen Lustig
15. Knowledge Production, Big Data, and Data-Driven Customary International Law, Tamar Megiddo
16. Going by the Book - What International Law Textbooks Teach Us Not To Learn, Ana Luísa Bernardino