Marketing Global Justice: The Political Economy of International Criminal Law

Author:   Christine Schwöbel-Patel (University of Warwick)
Publisher:   Cambridge University Press
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Pages:   280
Publication Date:   06 May 2021
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Author:   Christine Schwöbel-Patel (University of Warwick)
Publisher:   Cambridge University Press
Imprint:   Cambridge University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 23.00cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 15.00cm
Weight:   0.620kg
ISBN:  

9781108482752


ISBN 10:   1108482759
Pages:   280
Publication Date:   06 May 2021
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
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'Branding and marketing may seem foreign to ethics and justice. But as Christine Schwöbel-Patel shows in this wonderful study, there is no way to understand the contemporary era without examining their relations. In her fascinating and wide-ranging exploration, she convincingly brings out how particular and selective recent initiatives in 'global justice' have been, with special emphasis on our neoliberal practices of international criminal law. After this bracing and disturbing investigation, our study of idealism must begin in acknowledgment of how it has been occupied in our time - but also how other strategies might liberate it for a different future.' Samuel Moyn, Yale University 'This is a path-breaking analysis of international criminal justice and the winds of the market that have shaped its substance and style; indeed, this book powerfully illustrates the intertwined lives of substance and style in the legal and institutional order for international justice. With intellectual rigor and originality this book connects the dots between international law and neoliberal analysis, between branding strategies and anti-impunity campaigns, between aesthetics and human rights, between profit and the genealogy of morals in the international public sphere. In tracking the winners and losers of this era of marketized international justice, the book also situates these developments in the material legacies of colonialism, and a world order that reproduces injustice even when it promises justice. An extraordinarily engaging and insightful book - heterodox international law scholarship at its best!' Vasuki Nesiah, Professor of Human Rights and International Law at The Gallatin School, New York University, co-Founder of Third World Approaches to International Law (TWAIL) 'Christina Schwöbel-Patel has written Naomi Klein's No Logo for the field and practice of International Criminal Law. Her brilliant book shows how campaigns against genocide, atrocity and impunity in the 1990s were not just topics of widespread discussion but opportunities for branding, professional advancement, and even personal enrichment. Her account helpfully moves the debate from the lofty abstractions of moral decision into the mechanics of how cases were made and sold, populations were mobilized and often caricatured, and market imperatives tethered to those of humanitarian rescue.  It is a scathing critique and a sobering read that will help us to stake out terrain for global justice anew.' Quinn Slobodian, Author of Globalists: The End of Empire and the Birth of Neoliberalism  'As states and scholars alike are debating whether international criminal law has been 'oversold',  Christine Schwöbel-Patel asks another, much more politically important and jurisprudentially generative question: how and why did we come to think of an entire legal field and even of global justice in terms of 'selling', 'branding' and 'investment'? Drawing from critical legal and marketing studies, this indispensable book reveals novel and unexamined dimensions of the profound, and profoundly destructive, influence of neoliberalism on international law. Those interested both in international criminal law and in law and political economy more broadly will do well to take note.' Ntina Tzouvala, Senior Lecturer, ANU College of Law


'Branding and marketing may seem foreign to ethics and justice. But as Christine Schwoebel-Patel shows in this wonderful study, there is no way to understand the contemporary era without examining their relations. In her fascinating and wide-ranging exploration, she convincingly brings out how particular and selective recent initiatives in 'global justice' have been, with special emphasis on our neoliberal practices of international criminal law. After this bracing and disturbing investigation, our study of idealism must begin in acknowledgment of how it has been occupied in our time - but also how other strategies might liberate it for a different future.' Samuel Moyn, Yale University 'This is a path-breaking analysis of international criminal justice and the winds of the market that have shaped its substance and style; indeed, this book powerfully illustrates the intertwined lives of substance and style in the legal and institutional order for international justice. With intellectual rigor and originality this book connects the dots between international law and neoliberal analysis, between branding strategies and anti-impunity campaigns, between aesthetics and human rights, between profit and the genealogy of morals in the international public sphere. In tracking the winners and losers of this era of marketized international justice, the book also situates these developments in the material legacies of colonialism, and a world order that reproduces injustice even when it promises justice. An extraordinarily engaging and insightful book - heterodox international law scholarship at its best!' Vasuki Nesiah, Professor of Human Rights and International Law at The Gallatin School, New York University, co-Founder of Third World Approaches to International Law (TWAIL) 'Christina Schwoebel-Patel has written Naomi Klein's No Logo for the field and practice of International Criminal Law. Her brilliant book shows how campaigns against genocide, atrocity and impunity in the 1990s were not just topics of widespread discussion but opportunities for branding, professional advancement, and even personal enrichment. Her account helpfully moves the debate from the lofty abstractions of moral decision into the mechanics of how cases were made and sold, populations were mobilized and often caricatured, and market imperatives tethered to those of humanitarian rescue. It is a scathing critique and a sobering read that will help us to stake out terrain for global justice anew.' Quinn Slobodian, Author of Globalists: The End of Empire and the Birth of Neoliberalism 'As states and scholars alike are debating whether international criminal law has been 'oversold', Christine Schwoebel-Patel asks another, much more politically important and jurisprudentially generative question: how and why did we come to think of an entire legal field and even of global justice in terms of 'selling', 'branding' and 'investment'? Drawing from critical legal and marketing studies, this indispensable book reveals novel and unexamined dimensions of the profound, and profoundly destructive, influence of neoliberalism on international law. Those interested both in international criminal law and in law and political economy more broadly will do well to take note.' Ntina Tzouvala, Senior Lecturer, ANU College of Law


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Christine Schwöbel-Patel is Associate Professor at Warwick Law School and Co-Director of the Centre for Critical Legal Studies. She is the author of Global Constitutionalism in International Legal Perspective (2011) and editor of Critical Approaches to International Criminal Law: An Introduction (2014).

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