Gerry Simpson

Gerry Simpson was appointed to a Chair in Public International Law at the LSE in January, 2016. He is the author of Great Powers and Outlaw States (Cambridge, 2004); Law, War and Crime: War Crimes Trials and the Reinvention of International Law (Polity 2007), and The Sentimental Life of International Law (Oxford, 2021). He is currently co-writing an international legal history of the Cold War (with Matt Craven and Sundhya Pahuja) and a philosophical memoir entitled The Atomics: My Amero-Soviet Childhood.

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International Law and the Political

Sentiment without Sentimentality

08.04.2022

Gerry Simpson Hendrik Simon

In his new book, Gerry Simpson engages with the ‘Sentimental Life of International Law’ (OUP 2021). But what does ‘sentiment’ – without sentimentality, as the author points out – mean...