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22 Tilburg L. Rev. 1 (2017)

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   ..               TILBURG LAW  REVIEW 22 (2017) 1-3           Tilburg
                                                                Law Review
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                              Editorial






One  of my most vivid memories from my time as Liberal Arts & Sciences stu-
dent is when our program's founding father Willem Witteveen gave a guest
lecture about his work and academic interests. This was the start of my first
semester, September 2012. '1 often feel like a nomad, he explained, 'travelling
from discipline to discipline, always searching, always in wonder'. He had this
type of unique curiosity that knew no borders or limits. It amazed and changed
me, as it did for many of my fellow students.
   I remember even more vividly when, on July 17, 2014, I heard the news that
Willem, his wife and his daughter Marit (a classmate of mine) had been killed
in a terrorist attack on flight MH7. I was sitting in my room in Perth, where I
had arrived a week earlier, after flying over the same area. I remember wishing
Marit a nice summer. She was the smartest in her class and such a kind spirit,
too. I always felt she had such a bright future ahead of her, but this future was
cruelly taken away from her, her mother, Willem, and 295 other passengers.
  Willem  Witteveen was a professor of jurisprudence at Tilburg Law School
and created multiple spaces for law and humanities in the Netherlands and
beyond. Our 20(2) issue of autumn 2015 honored the life and work of Willem,
with different articles in his honor written by his close colleagues. This special
issue on 'Translating Law' takes a different approach and seeks to continue
Willem's legacy by giving a stage to scholars that have adopted a similar kind of
nomadic  perspective to law. Not just with regard to interdisciplinarity, but also
with respect to different languages, countries and times. The term 'Translating
Law' should hence be understood in this broad sense.
   This issue starts with two interdisciplinary articles written by former lau-
reates of the Witteveen Memorial Fellowship on Law  and Humanities. The
first one is authored by Nayeli Urquiza-Haas, who invokes the ancient Greek
tragedian Aeschylus' The Suppliant Maidens to provide a defense for hearing
of refugee testimonies. Rakhshan Rizwan, in turn, examines the emerge of a
pleasure-centric model of human rights advocacy in South Asia through the
lens of Kashmiri literary fiction.


@ KONINKLIJKE BRILL NV, LEIDEN, 2017  DOI 10.1163/22112596-02201001

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