This article critiques how international lawyers shape the present, suggesting a focus on neo-presentism in legal scholarship.
By and large, the international legal literature on time has had very little to say about how international lawyers craft the present. This article resists the prevailing urge to bustle through the international legal present pointing out the markings of history or hastening towards the future. It draws attention, instead, to an important body of work emerging in international legal scholarship that would have us make more of the present than international lawyers have typically encouraged: a body of work characterised here as neo-presentist.
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