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Freedom of Speech in International Law charts the minimum protections for speech enshrined in international human rights law. It not only addresses the problems facing free speech today but offers recommendations to give effect to the international-law obligation to protect freedom of expression.

At a time of 'interdisciplinary' scholarly debate and 'transdisciplinary'
pedagogy, some disciplines appear more siloed and tone deaf to each
other than ever before. This article will consider why law and anthropology
as disciplines offer almost no impact upon each other's educational
or research agendas.

Luis Eslava / Dense struggle : on ghosts, law, and the global order -- Chris Butler / Spatial abstraction, legal violence, and the promise of appropriation -- Sarah Keenan / A prison around your ankle and a border in every street : theorising law, space and the subject -- Emily Grabham / Praxiographies' of time : law, temporalities, and material worlds -- Lucy Finchett-Maddock / Continua of (in)justice -- Olivia Barr / Movement an homage to legal drips, wobbles & perpetual motion -- Andrea Pavoni / Disenchanting senses : law and the taste of the real -- Nicola Masciandario / Synaesthesia : the mystical sense of law -- Dragan Milovanovich / Touching you, touching me in law and justice : toward a quantum holographic process-informational understanding -- Illan Rua Wall / Turbulent legality : sovereignty, security, and the police -- Elena loizidou / Sequences on law and the body -- Laurent de Sutter / On resisting bodies -- Renisa Mawani / Insect wars : bees, bedbugs, and biopolitics -- Anna Grear / Anthropocene "time"? a reflection on temporalities in the "new age of the human" -- Yoriko Otomo / Making lawful animals -- Honni van Rijswijk / Law's aggressive realism and feminist genres of violence and harm -- Maria Aristodemou / From decaffeinated democracy to democracy in the real in ten (lacanian) sessions -- Christopher Tomlins / Why law's objects do not disappear : on history as remainder -- James Martel / Must the law be a liar? walter benjamin on the possibility of an anarchist form of law -- Alain Pottage / Literary materiality -- Emilie Cloatre and David Cowan / Legalities and materialities -- Hyo Yoon Kang law's materiality : between concrete matters and abstract forms, or how matter becomes material -- Andreas Philippopoulos-Mihalopoulos / To have to do with the law : an essay -- Anne Bottomley and Nathan Moore / On new model jurisprudence : the scholar/critic as (cosmic) artisan

Controversy and confusion pervade the law of armed conflict. Its most basic rules may seem ambiguous, vague, incomplete, or inconsistent. The prevailing view of customary international law confronts serious problems, in principle and in practice, when applied to the customary law of armed conflict. Legal indeterminacy, in its different forms, might be reduced or resolved in light of the object and purpose of the law of armed conflict, or by taking into account other relevant rules of international law. Unfortunately, the purpose of the law of armed conflict is itself the subject of deep disagreement. So is the relationship between the law of armed conflict and other branches of international law, most notably the law of inter-State force and human rights law. This article examines different forms of legal indeterminacy and different legal techniques available to address them, using concrete controversies to illustrate abstract ideas. It defends one view of the purpose of the law of armed conflict and its relationship with other rules of international law. The purpose of the law is not to balance a constraining principle of humanity against an authorizing principle of military necessity. Instead, the purpose of the law is simply to protect persons and objects to the greatest extent practically possible, that is, without depriving other rules of international law, which authorize certain uses of armed force, of practical effect. Finally, it shows that the law of armed conflict contains a number of clues for its own interpretation, some of them hidden in plain sight, including a recurring pattern of general protections with limited exceptions.

"Highlighting how the challenges raised by globalization - from environmental management to financial sector meltdowns - have encouraged the emergence of experts and networks as powerful actors in international governance, the contributions in this collection assess the methods and effectiveness of these new actors. Unlike other books that have focused on networks or experts, this volume brings these players together, showing how they interact and share the challenges of establishing legitimacy and justifying their power and influence. The collection shows how experts and networks function in different ways to address diverse problems across multiple borders. The reader is provided with a broader and deeper practical understanding of how informal authority actually operates, and of the nature of the relationship between different actors involved in policymaking. Through a range of case studies, the contributions in this collection explain how globalization is reshaping traditional forms of power and authority"--