Introduction: Goethe's Faust , Giorgio Agamben, and International Law 1. 'Behold, I tell you a mystery': Tracing Faust 's Influences on Giorgio Agamben to and from International Law 2. Reading Faust into International Criminal Law's Metaphorical References to the Devil 3. What is Real about Experimental Norms? Thinking with Giorgio Agamben about Medical Trials 4. Carl Schmitt as a Subject and Object of International Criminal Law: Ethical Judgement In Extremis 5. Saving Humanity from Hell: International Criminal Law and Permanent Crisis 6. Artificial Islands, Artificial Highways and Pirates: An East African Perspective on the South China Sea Disputes 7. Follow your Leader - I Prefer Not to: Models for Non-violent Resistance in Giorgio Agamben via Herman Melville 8.

The President's Two Bodies: A Study in Applied Political Theology 9. People, Politics and Populism in International Criminal Law 10. War! What is it Good For? Law, Violence, the 'Laudes Regiae' and Laudatory Reggae.