Introduction&FLEUR JOHNS， RICHARD JOYCE AND SUNDHYA PAHUJA 1
1 The international law in force： anachronistic ethics and divine violence&JENNIFER BEARD 18
2 Absolute contingency and the prescriptive force of international law， Chiapas—Valladolid， ca. 1550&OSCAR GUARDIOLA-RIVERA 29
3 Latin roots： the force of international law as event&PETER FITZPATRICK 43
4 Westphalia： event， memory， myth&RICHARD JOYCE 55
5 The force of a doctrine： art. 38 of the PCIJ Statute and the sources of international law&THOMAS SKOUTERIS 69
6 Paris 1793 and 1871： levee en masse as event&GERRY SIMPSON 81
7 Decolonization and the eventness of international law&SUNDHYA PAHUJA 91
8 Post-war to new world order and post-socialist transition： 1989 as pseudo-event&SCOTT NEWTON 106
9 The liberation of Nelson Mandela： anatomy of a ‘happy event’ in international law&FREDERIC MEGRET 117
10 Political trials as events&EMILIOS CHRISTODOULIDIS 130
11 The Tokyo Women’s Tribunal and the turn to fiction&KAREN KNOP 145
12 Many hundred thousand bodies later： an analysis of the ‘legacy’ of the international criminal tribunal for Rwanda&DENISE FERREIRA DA SILVA 165
13 From the state to the Union： international law and the appropriation of the new Europe&PATRICIA TUITT 177
14 The emergence of the World Trade Organization：another triumph of corporate capitalism？&FIONA MACMILLAN 191
15 The World Trade Organization and development：victory of ‘rational choice’？&DONATELLA ALESSANDRINI 207
16 Protesting the WTO in Seattle： transnational citizen action， international law and the event&RUTH M. BUCHANAN 221
17 Globalism， memory and 9/11： a critical Third World perspective&OBIORA CHINEDU OKAFOR 234
18 Provoking international law： war and regime change in Iraq&JOHN STRAWSON 246
19 The torture memos&FLEUR JOHNS 260
Index 279