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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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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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