International Law as Social Construct
Title | International Law as Social Construct PDF eBook |
Author | Carlo Focarelli |
Publisher | OUP Oxford |
Pages | 632 |
Release | 2012-05-24 |
Genre | Law |
ISBN | 0191632198 |
The book distils and articulates international law as a social construct. It does so by analysing its social foundations, essence, and roots in practical and socially workable (as opposed to 'pure') reason. In addition to well-known doctrines of jurisprudence and international law, it draws upon psycho-analytic insights into the origins and nature of law, as well as philosophical social constructivism. The work suggests that seeing law as a social construct is crucial to our understanding of international law and to the struggle to create better working rules. The book re-conceptualizes both past and new doctrines of international law as 'constructs', namely, as strategies of concomitantly de-mythologizing and re-mythologizing international law. Key areas of international law, including subjects, sources, hierarchy, values, and remedies, are shown to be part of this process. The social impact on international law of transnational actors and stakeholders, normative fragmentation, global justice, legitimacy of both rules and players, dynamics and hierarchization of norms, compliance and implementation in municipal law is also extensively investigated. Five basic values of the international community, namely security, humanity, wealth, environment, and knowledge, are explored by stressing their inter- and intra-tensions. Finally, the analysis is extended to the role that international courts play in the prosecution of heads of state and other transnational players who violate international law.
International Law As Social Construct
Title | International Law As Social Construct PDF eBook |
Author | Clinton Hart |
Publisher | Createspace Independent Publishing Platform |
Pages | 360 |
Release | 2017-05-10 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9781548570378 |
This book distills and articulates international law as a social construct. It does so by analyzing its social foundations, essence, and roots in practical and socially workable (as opposed to 'pure') reason. In addition to well-known doctrines of jurisprudence and international law, it draws upon psycho-analytic insights into the origins and nature of law, as well as philosophical social constructivism. The work suggests that seeing law as a social construct is crucial to our understanding of international law and to the struggle to create better working rules.
International Law as Social Construct
Title | International Law as Social Construct PDF eBook |
Author | Carlo Focarelli |
Publisher | OUP Oxford |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2012-05-24 |
Genre | Law |
ISBN | 9780199584833 |
This book explores international law as a social construct by analysing its social foundations and by re-conceptualizing the way in which it is commonly understood. It asks what law is and how it works in society, and shows why it is worth to struggle for new and better-working rules in the international legal order.
International Law as Social Construct
Title | International Law as Social Construct PDF eBook |
Author | Carlo Focarelli |
Publisher | Oxford University Press |
Pages | 628 |
Release | 2012-05-24 |
Genre | Law |
ISBN | 0199584834 |
This book explores international law as a social construct by analysing its social foundations and by re-conceptualizing the way in which it is commonly understood. It asks what law is and how it works in society, and shows why it is worth to struggle for new and better-working rules in the international legal order.
Legitimate Targets?
Title | Legitimate Targets? PDF eBook |
Author | Janina Dill |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 387 |
Release | 2015 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1107056756 |
Can international law regulate warfare? Experiences of US bombing suggests it does not solve the twenty-first-century belligerent's legitimacy dilemma.
A Philosophy of the Social Construction of Crime
Title | A Philosophy of the Social Construction of Crime PDF eBook |
Author | David Polizzi |
Publisher | Policy Press |
Pages | 104 |
Release | 2016 |
Genre | Philosophy |
ISBN | 1447327322 |
This book situates the social construction of crime and criminal behaviour within the philosophical context of phenomenology and explores how these constructions inform, and justify, the policies employed to address them. It is essential reading for academics and students interested in social theory and theories of criminology.
Social Construction of Law
Title | Social Construction of Law PDF eBook |
Author | Michael Giudice |
Publisher | Edward Elgar Publishing |
Pages | 160 |
Release | 2020-10-30 |
Genre | Law |
ISBN | 1839103221 |
This illuminating book explores the theme of social constructionism in legal theory. It questions just how much freedom and power social groups really have to construct and reconstruct law.