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International law and its others

By Anne Orford

Book information

Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Year
2006
ISBN
978-0-511-24786-6, 0-511-24786-9, 978-0-521-85949-3, 0-521-85949-2, 0511250002, 0511251475, 9780511251474, 0511249497, 9780511249495, 9780511250002, 9780511248948, 0511248946, 9780511250514, 0511250517
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
3 MB (2915613 bytes)
Pages
xiv, 420 p.\436
Time added
2014-05-28 20:34:30

Description

International law is appealed to as offering a means of constraining power and as representing universal values. Here, scholars draw on jurisprudence, philosophy, legal history and political theory to analyse this turn towards international law. Content: COVER; HALF-TITLE; TITLE; COPYRIGHT; DEDICATION; CONTENTS; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; NOTES ON THE CONTRIBUTORS; 1 A jurisprudence of the limit; Part I: Sovereignty otherwise; Part II: Human rights and other values; Part III: The relation to the other; Part IV: History's other actors; PART I Sovereignty otherwise; 2 Speaking law: on bare theological and cosmopolitan sovereignty; 3 Law as conversation; 4 Corporate power and global order; 5 Seasons in the abyss:* reading the void in Cubillo; PART II Human rights and other values; 6 Reassessing international humanitarianism: the dark sides. Abstract: A rich array of responses to the question of what it means to speak and write about international law today. Read more...

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