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2 - A ‘Popular’ International Law
Madelaine Chiam, La Trobe University, Victoria
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International Law in Public Debate

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30 November 2021

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09 December 2021, pp 18-40
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Chapter 2 explains the scholarly traditions of ‘popular’ law on which I have drawn, describes the analytical approach to law as language that I have used, and situates the smaller histories contained in this book within the wider scholarship on international legal history.

6 - Conclusion
Madelaine Chiam, La Trobe University, Victoria
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International Law in Public Debate

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30 November 2021

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09 December 2021, pp 174-184
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In this concluding chapter, I reflect in two ways on the questions that have informed my analysis. First, I reiterate the argument for a popular international law and the characteristics that I have identified in this book. Second, I consider some of the implications of my argument for international legal practice.

Madelaine Chiam
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Public debates in the language of international law have occurred across the 20th and 21st centuries and have produced a popular form of international law that matters for international practice. This book analyses the people who used international law and how they used it in debates over Australia's participation in the 2003 Iraq War, the Vietnam War and the First World War. It examines texts such as newspapers, parliamentary debates, public protests and other expressions of public opinion. It argues that these interventions produced a form of international law that shares a vocabulary and grammar with the expert forms of that language and distinct competences in order to be persuasive. This longer history also illustrates a move from the use of international legal language as part of collective justifications to the use of international law as an autonomous justification for state action.