TY - JOUR
T1 - International Legal Sightseeing
AU - Vos, R.N.
AU - Stolk, S.
N1 - The 'Journal of the Oxford Centre for Socio-Legal Studies' is an independent journal published in e-format by the doctoral students of the Centre for Socio-Legal Studies (CSLS) of the University of Oxford.
PY - 2018/12/9
Y1 - 2018/12/9
N2 - The phenomenon ‘international legal sightseeing’ denotes what we call the eventisation of international law. We have become interested in how international law presents itself to ‘the public’, and in turn in what that public shows up for. We are struck by the participation of international courts and institutions in cultural activities and specifically in the presentation of international law’s institutional buildings as tourist attractions in their cities of residence. And we want to understand how international legal sightseeing fits with a managerial turn observed in law where justice becomes a product, citizens become consumers, and demands of transparency, accessibility and openness are translated into ‘logos, slogans, tags and mission and vision statements’. International legal sightseeing as a distinctive phenomenon arises out of an exchange between audience and institution. We inquire into three components of this exchange: the spectacular, the everyday and the encounter.
AB - The phenomenon ‘international legal sightseeing’ denotes what we call the eventisation of international law. We have become interested in how international law presents itself to ‘the public’, and in turn in what that public shows up for. We are struck by the participation of international courts and institutions in cultural activities and specifically in the presentation of international law’s institutional buildings as tourist attractions in their cities of residence. And we want to understand how international legal sightseeing fits with a managerial turn observed in law where justice becomes a product, citizens become consumers, and demands of transparency, accessibility and openness are translated into ‘logos, slogans, tags and mission and vision statements’. International legal sightseeing as a distinctive phenomenon arises out of an exchange between audience and institution. We inquire into three components of this exchange: the spectacular, the everyday and the encounter.
UR - https://www.law.ox.ac.uk/centres-institutes/centre-socio-legal-studies/oxford-socio-legal-review
M3 - Article
SN - 2398-2438
VL - 2018
JO - Journal of the Oxford Centre for Socio-Legal Studies
JF - Journal of the Oxford Centre for Socio-Legal Studies
IS - 2
ER -