
'International adjudication, rhetoric and storytelling' by Andrea Bianchi
LCIL International Law Centre Podcast
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What Is a Proportionality in a Tank?
I tried to inject into that lecture some humane element that could have would remind international rights about what it's about. And then again I made a link to literature and law, and I went back to a reading I had done about Robert Cobers in which he says that legal interpretation takes place in a field of pain and death. When interpreters have finished their work, they frequently leave behind victims whose lives have been torn apart by those organized social practices or violence. It took 25 minutes to explain this to an audience. And I thought to myself if you made 25 minutes to explaining what a proportionality in a tank is, there must be something profoundly wrong about the way in which we've come
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