This book is an invitation to pause and wonder at the spectacular yet mundane practice that we have come to call legal sightseeing.Increasingly, international courthouses are becoming top-tourist destinations that host public events, exhibitions, and tours. But international law also pops up in more everyday spaces: as the theme for an organised city run, or as a symbol printed on a t-shirt or an image on a cookie jar. Legal sightseeing stands for this broad category of encounters between 'international law' and 'the public' that encompasses many different activities, sites, artefacts, and participants. The book presents a rich collection of images and research that introduces legal sightseeing as both the phenomenon under study and an experimental research methodology. Structured as a catalogue, the book covers a wide range of iconic and surprising instances of legal sightseeing, located for example, at the former American Embassy in The Hague, the Museum of White Terror in Taipei, in Bulgaria's capital city, Sofia, and at more traditional sites such as the Peace Palace and Courtroom 600 in Nuremberg.
