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  • 11 - Time Travel in the Law of International Responsibility

  • from Part III - International Responsibility of Public Institutions: Fault-based or Not?
  • Edited by Samantha Besson, Collège de France, Paris
  • Book:
    Theories of International Responsibility Law
    Published online:
    01 September 2022
    Print publication:
    08 September 2022, pp 252-276

  • Summary

    This chapter examines the temporality around which international law is articulated, with an emphasis on the doctrine of international responsibility. The chapter specifically elaborates on how the doctrine of international responsibility suspends international law’s one-directional temporality and provides discursive devices that allow one to travel back and forth between the past of wrongfulness and the present of responsibility. Such two-directional temporality, the chapter argues, is at the service of the narrative function of international responsibility in that such two-way time travel allows a re-representation of the real produced by legal claims made under the doctrine of international responsibility. The chapter ends with concluding remarks on the distinction between the imaginary and the real.