A great work of literature does more for international criminal justice than providing evidence. By couching the evidence in conceptual categories, literature can offer insights on how law should be interpreted. This review essay seeks to demonstrate this argument about legal interpretation through a reading of Behrouz Boochani’s much-acclaimed No Friend but the Mountains. In doing so, it seeks to offer a reflection on the significance of literary evidence authored by those subjected to atrocity. Boochani is far from being the first author whose work has enormous value both as literature and as testimony (an overlap that has been widely studied in the humanities and social sciences). Yet the relationship between the two is still seldom appreciated by lawyers and seldom appreciated for its value to legal theory. The essay aims to contribute to the latter discussion, specifically as it pertains to contemporary abuses against asylum seekers.

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设计攻击：澳大利亚的离岸拘留系统和暴行文学

一部伟大的文学作品对国际刑事司法的作用比提供证据更多。通过在概念类别中提供证据，文献可以提供关于如何解释法律的见解。这篇评论文章试图通过阅读 Behrouz Boochani 广受赞誉的 No Friend but the Mountains 来证明关于法律解释的这一论点。在这样做的过程中，它试图反思那些遭受暴行的人所创作的文学证据的重要性。Boochani 远不是第一个在文学和证词方面都具有巨大价值的作者（在人文和社会科学领域已广泛研究重叠）。然而，两者之间的关系仍然很少受到律师的重视，也很少因其对法律理论的价值而受到重视。