Book

International law's invisible frames : social cognition and knowledge production in international legal processes

ed. by Andrea Bianchi and Moshe Hirsch

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2021

XIII, 316 p. ; 24 cm

978-0-19-284753-9

English

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What is international law, and how does it work? This book argues that our answers to these fundamental questions are shaped by a variety of social cognition and knowledge production processes. These processes act as invisible frames, through which we understand international law. To better conceive the frames within which international law moves and performs, we must understand how psychological and socio-cultural factors affect decision-making in an international legal process. This includes identifying the groups of people and institutions that shape and alter the prevailing discourse in international law, and unearthing the hidden meaning of the various mythologies that populate and influence our normative world.

• 2021, Chapter, Revisiting the Memory of Solferino : knowledge production and the laws of war / Eyal Benvenisti and Doreen Lustig
• 2021, Chapter, The invisible frames affecting wartime investigations : legal epistemology, metaphors, and cognitive biases / Shiri Krebs