International Law's Invisible Frames : Social Cognition and Knowledge Production in International Legal Processes

"What is international law, and how does it work? This book argues that our answers to these fundamental questions are shaped by a variety of social cognition and knowledge production processes. These processes act as invisible frames, through which we understand international law. To better conceive the frames within which international law moves and performs, we must understand how psychological and socio-cultural factors affect decision-making in an international legal process. This includes identifying the groups of people and institutions that shape and alter the prevailing discourse in international law, and unearthing the hidden meaning of the various mythologies that populate and influence our normative world. With chapters from leading experts in the discipline employing insights from sociology, psychology, and behavioural science, this book investigates the mechanisms that allow us to apprehend and intellectually represent the social practice of international law. It unveils the hidden or unnoticed processes by which our understanding of international law is formed, and helps readers to unlearn some of the presuppositions that inform our largely unquestioned beliefs about international law."--Book jacket cover International Law’s Invisible Frames Copyright Table of Contents Contributors International Law’s Invisible Frames: Introductory Insights Section I 1. Social Cognitive Studies, Sociological Theory, and International Law 2. Framing in and through Public International Law 3. Cognitive Biases and International Law: What’s the Point of Critique? 4. Institutionally Embodied Law: Cognitive Linguistics and the Making of International Law 5. Prosociality, International Law, and Humanitarian Intervention 6. A Worldly Law in a Legal World 7. The Invisible Frames Affecting Wartime Investigations: Legal Epistemology, Metaphors, and Cognitive Biases 8. Labels as the Visible Part of International Law’s Invisible Frames: The Case of the Framework Convention on Tobacco Control as an ‘Evidence-​based’ Treaty Section II 9. Knowledge Production in International Law: Forces and Processes 10. The Discipline as a Field of Struggle: The Politics and the Economy of Knowledge Production in International Law 11. Reflections on the International Telecommunication Union: International Organizations as Epistemic Structures 12. Metaphors of International Law 13. Counterstorytelling in International Economic Law 14. Revisiting the Memory of Solferino: Knowledge Production and the Laws of War 15. Knowledge Production, Big Data, and Data-​driven Customary International Law 16. Going by the Book: What International Law Textbooks Teach Us Not to Know Index This Innovative Edited Collection Uncovers The Invisible Frames Which Form Our Understanding Of International Law. Taking An Interdisciplinary Approach, It Investigates How Social Cognition And Knowledge Production Processes Affect Decision-making, And Inform Unquestioned Beliefs About What International Law Is, And How It Works.