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The Politics of International Law
Today international law is everywhere. Wars are fought and opposed in its name. It is invoked to claim rights and to challenge them, to indict or support political leaders, to distribute resources and to expand or limit the powers of domestic and international institutions. International law is part of the way political (and economic) power is used, critiqued, and sometimes limited. Despite its claim for neutrality and impartiality, it is implicit in what is just, as well as what is unjust in the world. To understand its operation requires shedding its ideological spell and examining it with a cold eye. Who are its winners, and who are its losers? How - if at all - can it be used to make a b...
To the Uttermost Parts of the Earth
A critical history of European sovereignty and property rights as the foundation of the international order in 1300-1870.
Nordic Cosmopolitanism
The present collection of essays for Martti Koskenniemi provides a wide-ranging overview of the state of Nordic international legal scholarship. In addition to the more theoretical discussions, it engages with a variety of current debates (such as the war on terrorism, the criminalization of international law and the position of human rights in the European Union, for example). The collection, with a mixture of academics and practitioners, will prove useful to scholars in international law, international relations and related disciplines, as well as officials of states and international organizations.
The Law of International Lawyers
This book provides original perspectives on the work of one of the most important thinkers in international law today.
The Gentle Civilizer of Nations
International law was born from the impulse to 'civilize' late nineteenth-century attitudes towards race and society, argues Martti Koskenniemi in this study of the rise and fall of modern international law. This book combines legal analysis, historical and political critique and semi-biographical studies of key figures and institutions.
The Cambridge Companion to International Law
A concise, intellectually rigorous and politically and theoretically informed introduction to the context, grammar, techniques and projects of international law.
Sources of International Law
A collection of essays on the various aspects of the legal sources of international law, including theories of the origin of international law, explanation of its binding force, normative hierarchies and the relation of international law and politics.
International Law
This Major Reference series brings together a wide range of key international articles in law and legal theory. Many of these essays are not readily accessible, and their presentation in these volumes will provide a vital new resource for both research and teaching. Each volume is edited by leading international authorities who explain the significance and context of articles in an informative and complete introduction.
The Function of Law in the International Community
First published in 1933, this is one of the seminal works on international law, written by a legendary scholar in the field. This republication, featuring a new introduction by Professor Martti Koskenniemi, once again makes this book available to scholars and students in this area.
History, Politics, Law
Juxtaposes standpoints from which disciplines of history, political thought and law conceive and generate political order beyond the state.
