Abstract
This chapter explores the interplay between cognitive studies and critical legal geography. Drawing on the literature on spatial cognition and behavioral geography, the chapter investigates how space can shape our perception, understanding, and appreciation of international law and (in)justice. Specifically, it discusses what the field of spatial cognition can offer complementary to the critical legal geography perspective on the everyday (re)production of systemic patterns of in- and exclusion in international law. The final section takes the courthouse design of the International Criminal Court as a case study to illustrate the points of connection between the two fields as well as the limits of their convergence.
| Original language | English |
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| Title of host publication | International Legal Theory and the Cognitive Turn |
| Editors | Anne van Aaken, Moshe Hirsch |
| Publisher | The Oxford University Press |
| Chapter | 11 |
| Pages | 240-264 |
| Number of pages | 25 |
| ISBN (Electronic) | 9780198909293 |
| ISBN (Print) | 9780198909262 |
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| Publication status | Published - 2025 |
Bibliographical note
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Keywords
- critical legal geography
- spatial cognition
- international law
- courthouse architecture
- behavioral geography
- space
- critical legal studies