The sound of the spoken word rising, pausing, the rhythms of the lines, of the stanzas, of the silences, the poem verbalised. The images etched on the walls in black and white, comics, graphic novels, stretching across wall after wall, winding around the room. The feel of cloth under fingers running across soft folds of a deep-red, imprinted justice photomontage. Weaving together international law, academic analysis, the political, the artistic, and the sensory experience of sight, sound, and touch—this was the extraordinary launch of Christine Schwöbel-Patel and Robert Knox’s edited volume and accompanying exhibition, Aesthetics and Counter-Aesthetics of International Justice, on a Tuesday afternoon in March 2024. Engagement with justice, and injustice, as material, cultural, and artistic expression is not new. Visual and non-visual works and practices have long been vehicles for the exploration of the human condition, stories of pain and power, injustice, violence, abuse,...