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Natural Perception: Environmental Images and Aesthetics in International Law. By Alice Palmer. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2023. Pp. xviii, 314. Index.

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Natural Perception: Environmental Images and Aesthetics in International Law. By Alice Palmer. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2023. Pp. xviii, 314. Index.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 November 2024

W.G. Werner
W.G. Werner*
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Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
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American Journal of International Law , Volume 118 , Issue 4 , October 2024 , pp. 773 - 780
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References

1 Errol Morris, Believing Is Seeing (Observations on the Mysteries of Photography) 92 (2011) (emphasis in original).

2 Id. at 97.

3 Id. at 98–118.

4 To give just a few examples: Cinematic Perspectives on International Law (Olivier Corten, François Dubuisson & Martyna Fałkowska-Clarys eds., 2021); International Criminal Justice and/on Film, 6 London Rev. Int'l L. (Special Issue, 2018); Tallgren, Immi, Come and See? The Power of Images and International Criminal Justice, 17 Int'l Crim. L. Rev. 259 (2017)Google Scholar; Wouter Werner, Repetition and International Law, Ch. 6 (2022); Aalberts, Tanja & Stolk, Sofia, The Peace Palace: Building (of) the International Community, 114 AJIL Unbound 117 (2020)CrossRefGoogle Scholar; Miles, Kate, Painting International Law as Universal: Imperialism and the Co-opting of Image and Art, 8 London Rev. Int'l L. 367 (2020)Google Scholar; International Law's Objects (Jesse Hohmann & Daniel Joyce eds., 2019).

5 Certain Phosphate Lands in Nauru (Nauru v. Austl.), Preliminary Objections, Judgment, 1992 ICJ Rep. 240 (June 26).

6 Charlesworth, Hilary, The Art of International Law, 2022 Grotius Lecture, 116 ASIL Proc. 7, 17 (2022)Google Scholar.

7 See, e.g., Jonathan W. Hak, Image-Based Evidence in International Criminal Prosecutions (2024).

8 Douglas, Lawrence, Film as Witness: Screening Nazi Concentration Camps Before the Nuremberg Tribunal, 105 Yale L.J. 449 (1995)CrossRefGoogle Scholar.

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10 Duffy, Aoife, Bearing Witness to Atrocity Crimes: Photography and International Law, 40 Hum. Rts. Q. 776 (2008)Google Scholar.

11 Judith Butler, Photography, War, Outrage, 120 PMLA 822, 823 (2005) (quoted in Duffy, supra note 10, at 785).

12 Convention on Biological Diversity, pmbl., June 5, 1992, 1760 UNTS 79, at https://www.cbd.int/convention/articles/default.shtml?a=cbd-00.

13 Alice Palmer, Natural Perception: Environmental Images and Aesthetics in International Law 76 (2023) (quoting Georg Nolte, Treaties Over Time in Particular: Subsequent Agreement and Practice in International Law Commission, Report of the International Law Commission on the Work of the Sixtieth Session, para. 1, UN Doc. A/63/10 (2008).

14 Emily Brady, Aesthetics of the Natural Environment 237 (2003) (quoted by Palmer, supra note 13, at 32).

15 Brady, supra note 14, at 129 (referring to Kant's Critique of Judgment) (emphasis in original).

16 Id. at 132.

17 New Horizon Initiative, at newhorizoninitiative.com (thanks to Sofia Stolk for alerting me to this project).

18 Brady, supra note 14, at 128–29.

19 Jack Balkin, Being Just with Deconstruction, 3 Soc. & Legal Stud. 393 (1994), at https://jackbalkin.yale.edu/being-just-deconstruction.