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Spaces of International Law

Contemporary debates on international law demonstrate multiple anxieties. ‘Maps’ of international law are being drawn and redrawn, as the discipline assesses its cohesiveness and defends its effectiveness. Many of the current anxieties about the nature of international law result from the influence of globalisation discourses. These discourses challenge and complicate dominant hierarchies of scale and space that are considered to be the traditional, state-centric regulatory spaces of international law. This article highlights how the ‘public space’ of international law production centres on ‘global’ cities such as New York and Geneva, a locus that differs from yet reinforces the state-centricity of international law. Drawing on legal geographies literature, this article seeks to uncover the complexities of the different ‘landscapes’ of international law, and the unlikely places (and urban — or other — spaces) in which international law may be found. In doing so, the article examines how an approach that utilises the concept of space can assist international legal scholars to reimagine the conceptual borders of the discipline and scholarship to include particular spaces within our conceptions of international law.