Events: The Force of International Law

Reviews / Votes

"This is a superb and wide-ranging collection of essays that... compels us to think in new ways" - Antony Anghie, Samuel D. Thurman Professor of Law, University of Utah

"A few books change the orientation of a discipline and Events belongs to this distinguished group... Events is an intellectual event of the first order. I cannot imagine International law being taught in the same old way again." - Costas Douzinas, Professor of Law and Director of the Birkbeck Institute for the Humanities, University of London

"A wonderful collection of new thinking about the most enduring questions of international legal order... As we think anew about just how our world is governed, these meditations on the interpretive and political power of law to define where we have been, who we are and where we are going offer terrific food for thought." - David Kennedy, Professor of Law, Harvard Law School and Director of the Institute for Global Law and Policy at Harvard University

"This is a revelatory collection of essays...The concept of the event turns out to be rich in implications for international law, challenging us to imagine what it might mean to remain open to disruptions, rather than always incorporating or seeking to overcome them." - Susan Marks, Professor of International Law, the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE)

"Intelligently conceived and beautifully composed, this collection marks an important moment in an often excruciatingly polemical debate over the reality, the merits and aspirations of international law." - Peer Zumbansen, Professor of Law and Canada Research Chair in Transnational Economic Governance and Legal Theory, Osgoode Hall Law School, York University "This is a superb and wide-ranging collection of essays that... compels us to think in new ways"

Antony Anghie, Samuel D. Thurman Professor of Law, University of Utah

"A few books change the orientation of a discipline and Events belongs to this distinguished group... Events is an intellectual event of the first order. I cannot imagine International law being taught in the same old way again."

Costas Douzinas, Professor of Law and Director of the Birkbeck Institute for the Humanities, University of London


"A wonderful collection of new thinking about the most enduring questions of international legal order... As we think anew about just how our world is governed, these meditations on the interpretive and political power of law to define where we have been, who we are and where we are going offer terrific food for thought."

David Kennedy, Professor of Law, Harvard Law School and Director of the Institute for Global Law and Policy at Harvard University

"This is a revelatory collection of essays...The concept of the event turns out to be rich in implications for international law, challenging us to imagine what it might mean to remain open to disruptions, rather than always incorporating or seeking to overcome them."

Susan Marks, Professor of International Law, the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE)

"Intelligently conceived and beautifully composed, this collection marks an important moment in an often excruciatingly polemical debate over the reality, the merits and aspirations of international law."

Peer Zumbansen, Professor of Law and Canada Research Chair in Transnational Economic Governance and Legal Theory, Osgoode Hall Law School, York University

"The book makes an excellent contribution to rethinking the relation between international law and the event."
"Events are there to be experienced and re-experienced, narrated and counter-narrated, embraced and disputed, constructed and deconstructed- and this is exactly what makes this book worth reading."

Wouter G. Werner, Law Faculty VU University Amsterdam, Dept. of Transnational Legal Studies; Melbourne Journal