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Author:   Edwin Bikundo (Senior Lecturer, School of Law at Griffith University in Brisbane, Australia)
Publisher:   Edinburgh University Press
Imprint:   Edinburgh University Press
ISBN:  

9781474455671

ISBN 10:   1474455670
Pages:   224
Publication Date:   31 January 2026
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Forthcoming
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Table of Contents

Introduction: Goethe’s Faust, Giorgio Agamben, and International Law 1. ‘Behold, I tell you a mystery’: Tracing Faust’s Influences on Giorgio Agamben to and from International Law 2. Reading Faust into International Criminal Law’s Metaphorical References to the Devil 3. What is Real about Experimental Norms? Thinking with Giorgio Agamben about Medical Trials 4. Carl Schmitt as a Subject and Object of International Criminal Law: Ethical Judgement In Extremis 5. Saving Humanity from Hell: International Criminal Law and Permanent Crisis 6. Artificial Islands, Artificial Highways and Pirates: An East African Perspective on the South China Sea Disputes 7. Follow your Leader – I Prefer Not to: Models for Non-violent Resistance in Giorgio Agamben via Herman Melville 8. The President’s Two Bodies: A Study in Applied Political Theology 9. People, Politics and Populism in International Criminal Law 10. War! What is it Good For? Law, Violence, the ‘Laudes Regiae’ and Laudatory Reggae

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International law as political theodicy - via Faust and Agamben - is rendered new and strange in Edwin Bikundo's bracing book on the intimacies of law and violence.--Gerry Simpson, London School of Economics and Political Science

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Edwin Bikundo is Senior Lecturer at the School of Law at Griffith University in Brisbane, Australia. His teaching and research interests focus on international and comparative law and critical legal theory. Edwin has written a number of journal articles and is author of International Criminal Law: Using or Abusing Legality? (Routledge, 2014).

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