Author: R. MacDonaldPublisher: Springer
ISBN: 9789028608085
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
The International Law and Policy of Human Welfare
International Law and Policy of Human Welfare
Author: R. MacDonaldPublisher: Springer
ISBN: 9789028608085
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
The International Law and Policy of Human Welfare
The Changing Practices of International Law
Author: Tanja AalbertsPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108588158
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 273
Book Description
With more than 158,000 treaties and some 125 judicial organisations, international law has become an inescapable factor in world politics since the Second World War. In recent years, however, international law has also been increasingly challenged as states are voicing concerns that it is producing unintended effects and accuse international courts of judicial activism. This book provides an important corrective to existing theories of international law by focusing on how states respond to increased legalisation and rely on legal expertise to manoeuvre within and against international law. Through a number of case studies, covering a wide range of topical issues such as surveillance, environmental regulation, migration and foreign investments, the book argues that the expansion and increased institutionalisation of international law itself have created the structural premise for this type of politics of international law. More international law paradoxically increases states' political room of manoeuvre in world society.
Is International Law International?
Author: Anthea RobertsPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0190696419
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 433
Book Description
This book takes the reader on a sweeping tour of the international legal field to reveal some of the patterns of difference, dominance, and disruption that belie international law's claim to universality. Pulling back the curtain on the "divisible college of international lawyers," Anthea Roberts shows how international lawyers in different states, regions, and geopolitical groupings are often subject to distinct incoming influences and outgoing spheres of influence in ways that reflect and reinforce differences in how they understand and approach international law. These divisions manifest themselves in contemporary controversies, such as debates about Crimea and the South China Sea. Not all approaches to international law are created equal, however. Using case studies and visual representations, the author demonstrates how actors and materials from some states and groups have come to dominate certain transnational flows and forums in ways that make them disproportionately influential in constructing the "international." This point holds true for Western actors, materials, and approaches in general, and for Anglo-American (and sometimes French) ones in particular. However, these patterns are set for disruption. As the world moves past an era of Western dominance and toward greater multipolarity, it is imperative for international lawyers to understand the perspectives and approaches of those coming from diverse backgrounds. By taking readers on a comparative tour of different international law academies and textbooks, the author encourages them to see the world through the eyes of others -- an essential skill in this fast changing world of shifting power dynamics and rising nationalism.
Symposium Globalization and the Judiciary
Author: Carl BaudenbacherSymposium Judicialization and Globalization of the Judiciary
Author: Symposium: Judicialization and Globalization of the Judiciary. 1, 2002, Austin, Tex..Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 266
Book Description
Cases and Materials on Oil and Gas Law
Author: Publisher: West Publishing Company
ISBN:
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 1116
Book Description
The Yale Law Journal
Author: Materials on International Petroleum Transactions
Author: Ernest Edgar SmithPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 1044
Book Description
Customary International Law in Times of Fundamental Change
Author: Michael P. ScharfPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107276764
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 241
Book Description
This is the first book to explore the concept of 'Grotian Moments'. Named for Hugo Grotius, whose masterpiece De jure belli ac pacis helped marshal in the modern system of international law, Grotian Moments are transformative developments that generate the unique conditions for accelerated formation of customary international law. In periods of fundamental change, whether by technological advances, the commission of new forms of crimes against humanity, or the development of new means of warfare or terrorism, customary international law may form much more rapidly and with less state practice than is normally the case to keep up with the pace of developments. The book examines the historic underpinnings of the Grotian Moment concept, provides a theoretical framework for testing its existence and application, and analyzes six case studies of potential Grotian Moments: Nuremberg, the continental shelf, space law, the Yugoslavia Tribunal's Tadic decision, the 1999 NATO intervention in Serbia and the 9/11 terrorist attacks.
Author: Eric Stein