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International Law and Architecture

Edited by: Renske Vos, Sofia Stolk, Miriam Bak McKenna

ISBN13: 9781035339488
Published: December 2025
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing Limited
Country of Publication: UK
Format: Hardback
Price: £135.00



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Through eye-catching design or bureaucratic functionality, buildings make international law tangible for its practitioners, audiences and constituencies. This compelling book furthers our understanding of the impact of architecture on the field of international law with imagination and style.

Chapters engage with questions surrounding the relationship between architecture and identity construction, public reception, (de)colonial ordering, affect and spatial politics. Offering a range of perspectives on the role of architecture in shaping international law, the impressive group of contributors set out a new transdisciplinary enquiry into law, space, and aesthetics. The book highlights how the material, visual, and spatial realms influence international law’s norms, values, histories, as well as our individual experiences and expectations of the law.

Illustrated by a rich array of images of signature international spaces, International Law and Architecture is a timely and essential resource for students of public international law, politics, and architecture. The book will also engage readers interested in the intersections of geography, urban studies, and legal practice.

Subjects:
Art and Cultural Heritage Law
Contents:
Foreword xvi
Hilary Charlesworth
1. International Law and Architecture: A blueprint 1
Renske Vos, Miriam Bak McKenna and Sofia Stolk
PART I GROUNDS
2. A jurisprudence of gardens: International law, architecture and gardens of multitudes 19
Matilda Arvidsson
3. Inside-out: Autonomy, formalism and the legal architectures of outsider art 40
Lucy Finchett-Maddock
4. Rubble 63
Christine Schwöbel-Patel
5. Osteocartography: The architecture of international legal reproduction 77
Rose Sydney Parfitt

PART II CITYSCAPES
6. Urbicide in Ukraine. On the multiple lives of architecture in international law 80
Susanne Krasmann
7. Senate Square, Helsinki: Architecture, urban design, and resistance 98
Panu Minkkinen
8. Revisiting New Babylon: Architecture for a new society without institutions 115
Bart van Klink
9. ‘The City [in] The City?’: Exploring international law’s architecture in York’s Human Rights City 135
Alice Trotter

PART III HEADQUARTERS
10. ‘Creole’ modernisers and regional world-makers: Vignettes from the CEPAL building in Santiago (1957–66) and the
Kenyatta Centre in Nairobi (1967–73) 154
Julián Gómez-Delgado and Daniel R. Quiroga-Villamarín
11. The desire for value consensus in international law: Architectural aspirations of global institutions 174
Brydon T. Wang and Rain Liivoja
12. International law goes to Belém and to the Amazon: Institutional buildings and urban developments on the eve of
COP 30 199
Flávia do Amaral Vieira
13. Provisional permanence: The architecture of NATO’s successive seats 218
Sven Sterken
14. ‘One world’: Defining cultural internationalism at UNESCO HQ 244
Miriam Bak McKenna

PART IV COURTS
15. Glass justice: On architecture, audience, and interaction in the ICC building 269
Sofia Stolk
16. Building the legal architecture of the Extraordinary Chamber in the Courts of Cambodia 288
Nhat-Minh Nguyen Le
17. Courts in a time of permacrisis: The architecture of presence in the digital era 307
Lorna Cameron
Epilogue 335
Rebecca Mignot-Mahdavi
Index 343