'Walter Benjamin and the Re-imageination of International Law' (presenting my 2016 Law and Critique article)
(2015)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Nicholson, M. (2015, December). 'Walter Benjamin and the Re-imageination of International Law' (presenting my 2016 Law and Critique article). Paper presented at Institute for Global Law and Policy: The Conference 2015, Harvard Law School, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
Dr Matthew Nicholson's Outputs (4)
'The Political Unconscious of the English Foreign Act of State and Non-Justiciability Doctrine(s)' (presenting a 'work in progress' version of my 2015 ICLQ paper of the same title) (2015)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Nicholson, M. (2015, December). 'The Political Unconscious of the English Foreign Act of State and Non-Justiciability Doctrine(s)' (presenting a 'work in progress' version of my 2015 ICLQ paper of the same title). Paper presented at International Law Association (British Branch) Spring Conference 2015, University of Essex, England
Walter Benjamin and the re-imageination of international law (2015)
Journal Article
Nicholson, M. (2016). Walter Benjamin and the re-imageination of international law. Law and Critique, 27(1), 103-129. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10978-015-9170-zDrawing on the work of Walter Benjamin, Harold Bloom, and Theodor Adorno this article proposes the re-imageination of international law as a ‘pure means’ of representation rather than a means of exercising control over the world.
The political unconscious of the English foreign act of state and non-justiciability doctrine(s) (2015)
Journal Article
Nicholson, M. (2015). The political unconscious of the English foreign act of state and non-justiciability doctrine(s). International and Comparative Law Quarterly, 64(4), 743-781. https://doi.org/10.1017/s0020589315000299This article reviews the history and politics of the English foreign act of State and non-justiciability doctrines in light of recent judgments in Belhaj and Rahmatullah. It argues that the doctrines have a political unconscious—a term borrowed from... Read More about The political unconscious of the English foreign act of state and non-justiciability doctrine(s).