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Animal Farm, International Law: A Fictional Epilogue

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This is a work of fiction. It imagines that Orwell’s Animal Farm is not a work of fiction, but a fictionalized chronicle of real events disguised as a fairy tale. One fine day, an international organisation (which resembles the UN but is not) finds out the truth. All sorts of wild consequences ensue, including the discovery of a new brand of legal positivism and the holding of an unprecedented international criminal trial.

I like pigs

Dogs look up to us

Cats look down on us

Pigs treat us as equals

—Winston Churchill

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  1. Max Planck Institute Luxembourg for International, European and Regulatory Procedural Law, Luxembourg, Luxembourg

    Lorenzo Gradoni

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  1. Department of Law, University of Cagliari, Cagliari, Italy

    Daniele Amoroso

  2. Department of Law, University of Naples Federico II, Naples, Italy

    Loris Marotti

  3. Department of Law, Luiss University, Rome, Italy

    Pierfrancesco Rossi

  4. Department of Law, University of Turin, Turin, Italy

    Andrea Spagnolo

  5. Department of Law, University of Naples Federico II, Naples, Italy

    Giovanni Zarra

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Gradoni, L. (2023). Animal Farm, International Law: A Fictional Epilogue. In: Amoroso, D., Marotti, L., Rossi, P., Spagnolo, A., Zarra, G. (eds) More Equal than Others?. T.M.C. Asser Press, The Hague. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6265-539-3_15

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