International Law and Emotions: Challenges and Prospects CGLG Seminar with Guest Speaker Professor Andrea Bianchi

At this CGLG event, Professor Andrea Bianchi (Geneva Graduate Institute) will present his work on International Law and Emotions.

Andrea Bianchi's research interests lie in treaty interpretation, the production of knowledge, as well as the ‘unsaid' and the ‘unseen' in international law. His recent books include: Demystifying Treaty Interpretation (co-authored with Fuad Zarbiev), CUP, 2024; International Law's Invisible Frames — Social Cognition and Knowledge Production in International Legal Processes (co-edited with Moshe Hirsch, OUP, 2021). The second edition of his monograph International law Theories — An Inquiry into Different Ways of Thinking (OUP 2016) (translated into Spanish, French, Korean and Japanese) is under way.

Professor Bianchi will discuss how the study of emotions in international legal processes has gained traction lately, but fundamental challenges remain as to what a research agenda in this area might look like as well as what methodologies should be used in the pursuit of such an investigation. The aim of his paper is to foreground some of the main challenges in developing this relatively new field of international legal scholarship, as well as the main prospects for moving it productively forward. Ultimately, navigating through the universe of emotions represents not only a challenge but an incredible opportunity for international lawyers to overcome the narrow boundaries of classical jurisprudence and to provide a better explanation of how international legal processes actually take place.

We look forward to this exciting discussion about International Law and Emotions.