The Critical Attitude and the History of International Law
Title | The Critical Attitude and the History of International Law PDF eBook |
Author | Jean D'Aspremont |
Publisher | BRILL |
Pages | 66 |
Release | 2019-08-26 |
Genre | Law |
ISBN | 9004411631 |
This book questions the critical attitude that is informing the critical histories that have been flourishing since the ‘historical turn’ in international law. It makes the argument that the ‘historical turn’ falls short of being radically critical as the abounding critical histories which have come to populate the international literature over the last decades continue to be orchestrated along the very lines set by the linear historical narratives which they seek to question and disrupt, thereby repressing the imagination of international lawyers. It makes the point that the critical histories that have accompanied the ‘historical turn’ have contributed to the repression of disciplinary imagination just like other linear disciplinary histories. This book argues that the critical histories must move beyond a mere historiographical attitude and promotes radical historical critique in order to unbridle disciplinary imagination.
The Experiences of International Organizations
Title | The Experiences of International Organizations PDF eBook |
Author | Jean d'Aspremont |
Publisher | Edward Elgar Publishing |
Pages | 209 |
Release | 2023-11-03 |
Genre | Law |
ISBN | 1035319543 |
This groundbreaking book uses the idea of experience to investigate the various ways in which international organizations are understood by judges, legal practitioners, legal researchers, legal theorists, and thinkers of global governance.
International Law and History
Title | International Law and History PDF eBook |
Author | Ignacio de la Rasilla |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 465 |
Release | 2021-01-21 |
Genre | Law |
ISBN | 1108473407 |
The first contemporary historiography of international law and an essential methodological guide for researching international legal history.
Christianity and International Law
Title | Christianity and International Law PDF eBook |
Author | Pamela Slotte |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 535 |
Release | 2021-05-20 |
Genre | Law |
ISBN | 1108474551 |
This volume offers a many-sided introduction to the theme of Christianity and international law. Using a historical and contemporary perspective, it will appeal to readers interested in key topics of international law and how they intersect with Christianity.
After Meaning
Title | After Meaning PDF eBook |
Author | d’Aspremont, Jean |
Publisher | Edward Elgar Publishing |
Pages | 168 |
Release | 2021-12-09 |
Genre | Law |
ISBN | 1802200924 |
Inspiring and distinctive, After Meaning provides a radical challenge to the way in which international law is thought and practised. Jean d’Aspremont asserts that the words and texts of international law, as forms, never carry or deliver meaning but, instead, perpetually defer meaning and ensure it is nowhere found within international legal discourse.
International Law's Invisible Frames
Title | International Law's Invisible Frames PDF eBook |
Author | Andrea Bianchi |
Publisher | Oxford University Press |
Pages | 337 |
Release | 2021 |
Genre | Law |
ISBN | 0192847538 |
This innovative edited collection uncovers the invisible frames which form our understanding of international law. Taking an interdisciplinary approach, it investigates how social cognition and knowledge production processes affect decision-making, and inform unquestioned beliefs about what international law is, and how it works.
Contingency in International Law
Title | Contingency in International Law PDF eBook |
Author | Ingo Venzke |
Publisher | Oxford University Press |
Pages | 560 |
Release | 2021-04-22 |
Genre | Law |
ISBN | 0192652907 |
This book poses a question that is deceptive in its simplicity: could international law have been otherwise? Today, there is hardly a serious account left that would consider the path of international law to be necessary, and that would refute the possibility of a different law altogether. But behind every possibility of the past stands a reason why the law developed as it did. Only with a keen sense of why things turned out the way they did is it possible to argue about how the law could plausibly have turned out differently. The search for contingency in international law is often motivated, as it is in this volume, by a refusal to resign to the present state of affairs. By recovering past possibilities, this volume aims to inform projects of transformative legal change for the future. The book situates that search for contingency theoretically and carries it into practice across many fields, with chapters discussing human rights and armed conflict, migrants and refugees, the sea and natural resources, foreign investments and trade. In doing so, it shows how politically charged questions about contingency have always been.