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Notes on: Anne Orford (2003) Reading Humanitarian Intervention:Human Rights and the Use of Force in International Law (Cambridge University Press)

By Matilda Arvidsson

Anne Orford’s book was the first academic book I read which moved me to tears. While keeping her analysis of the laws and practices of humanitarian intervention, the use of force, and international law more broadly razor sharp, she managed at the same time to tell the story of one of love, motherhood and responsibility-for-the-other. The book further encouraged me to keep reading legal texts in ways they were never intended to be read, to see international law as irreversible both solution and problem, and to write with pride as a feminist scholar.

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