NJD Conference: "Law and Politics"

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Considering international legal subjectivity through écriture feminine: or the laughing Medusa of international law Abstract: This paper considers the formation of legal subjectivity through the method of écriture feminine. In contrast to conventional jurisprudential studies on international law, which convey a homosocial story of origin through a fraternal order of self-recognition of international legal personality, this article attends to the subject in international law. Rather than a hermetic, self-reproducing, always-already adult homosocial body-and-rational-mind, this is a subject who emerges through the feminine, fecund, experience of reproductive life, loss, forgetting, irrationality and entering into existence through the affective and material registers of law. The undoing of international law’s homosocial story of origin, through the method of écriture feminine, invokes the voices of feminist author Hélène Cixous, the female writing international lawyer-author who I am, and that of the Administrator of the Coalition Provisional Authority (CPA) of occupied Iraq (2003–2004), offering a fictitious poetic dialogue of life, madness, and desire, interviewing authentic self-accounts from law, jurisprudence, and the fecund disorderliness of life.

Period	2016 Aug 25
Event type	Conference
Location	Uppsala, SwedenShow on map