Media Spectacles of Legal Accountability in the Reporting of an Official History

• Autores: Charlotte Peevers
• Localización: British year book of international law, ISSN 0068-2691, Nº 87, 2017 (Ejemplar dedicado a: Symposium on the Iraq Inquiry), págs. 231-252
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • In this contribution I consider how the Chilcot Inquiry affects our understanding of international law on the use of force. However, rather than adjudge the effect that the Inquiry process or its Report might have on the final assessment of the legality of the Iraq War, I offer some reflections on the media environment within which legal arguments were and continue to be framed, presented and narrated. Such reflection calls attention to the situatedness of legal debate and the ways in which the question of international law—its prohibitions, exceptions, permissions and application—is always also a question of politics. And that the ‘politics of international law’ is not to be found only on an imagined ‘international plane’...