Justice in Extreme Cases: Criminal Law Theory Meets International Criminal Law. By Darryl Robinson. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020. 305 + xix pages.

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Marco Benatar in Chapter 2.9 The book accomplishes its stated goals and is an engaging and informative read. The book effectively establishes the state of the field, provides inspiration for further study, and effectively demonstrates how international law can be represented in film as well as the reasons for, and the effects behind, such representations. It effectively inspires readers to change the way they view film. As aptly summarized by contributor Gabrielle Simm, the book “provide[s] a model of how to analyze the stories films tell through visual language on international law.”10 To do this, the book provides the reader with the frameworks to use in viewingfilms, helping the reader to thinkmore critically about the films they consume: to question not just the representations of international law in films but also what purposes such representations serve. And, indeed, after reading this book, anyone with an appreciation for international law, or for film, will be inspired to think about the intentions or implications present whenever their favourite film or television series mentions a treaty or a war crime.