Gerry Simpson is a Professor of International Law at LSE. He previously held the Sir Kenneth Bailey Chair of Law at Melbourne Law School and studied law at the University of Aberdeen, the University of British Columbia, and the University of Michigan (Ann Arbor). He is the author of Great Powers and Outlaw States (Cambridge, 2004) (awarded the American Society of International Law's annual prize, and translated into several languages) and Law, War and Crime: War Crimes Trials and the Reinvention of International Law (Polity, 2008). Gerry is currently co-directing a project on the Cold War (with Matt Craven and Sundhya Pahuja) and writing a meditation on nuclearism entitled The Atomics: Life, Love and Death at the End of the World.

"a formidable reassessment of the very elements, often unspoken, that compose the distinct character of international law and lawyers and how we relate to international legal life." -- Andre Nunes Chaib, International Law Agendas

"More importantly, Gerry Simpson invites us to think it is worth engaging in alternative modes of tackling pressing global issues. That for all the epic but deceitful accounts advanced by the governing orthodoxies, there is still some space for sentimental, blasphemous ways of reflecting on our identity and building a new vision where sentiment without illusion helps redeem international law." -- Julian Huertas, International Law Agendas

"Simpson's homonymous article helped open the discipline's doors to inquiries into international law's 'personal life' as not only a scientific, but sentimental enterprise. The book has not disappointed in expanding this insight" -- LUIZA LEÃO SOARES PEREIRA, International Law Agendas