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Legality today commands substantial currency in world affairs, and this volume examines the struggle over its meaning in diverse practices.
Concepts shape how we understand and participate in international legal affairs. They are an important site for order, struggle and change. This comprehensive and authoritative volume introduces a large number of concepts that have shaped, at various points in history, international legal practice and thought; intimates at how the many projects of international law have grappled with, and influenced, the world through certain concepts; and introduces new concepts into the discipline.
Countering mainstream theories, this book focuses on the expanding institutionalisation of international law.
Written by a team of distinguished scholars and senior practitioners from around the world, Talking International Law examines legal argumentation by states and other actors in the settings where it mostly transpires - outside of courts. Offering unprecedented insight into the theory of legal argumentation, the book offers a unique exposure to this multi-faceted practice, deepening our understanding of how international law actually operates in international affairs.
Bringing together a highly diverse body of scholars, this comprehensive Research Handbook explores recent developments at the intersection of international law, sociology and social theory. It showcases a wide range of methodologies and approaches, including those inspired by traditional social thought as well as less familiar literature, including computational linguistics, performance theory and economic sociology. The Research Handbook highlights anew the potential contribution of sociological methods and theories to the study of international law, and illustrates their use in the examination of contemporary problems of practical interest to international lawyers.
The 1917 October Revolution and the revolutionary Mexican Constitution shook the foundations of international law. This collection revisits their legacies.
This book provides original perspectives on the work of one of the most important thinkers in international law today.
The aim of the Hague Yearbook of International Law is to offer a platform for review of new developments in the field of international law. In addition, it devotes attention to developments in the international law institutions based in the international City of Peace and Justice, The Hague. This Special Issue of Yearbook stems from a conference organised by the Maastricht University Study Group for Critical Approaches to International Law in April 2022. The conference, entitled 'Deconstructing International Law,' invited participants to reflect on and dismantle some of the foundational ideas of international law.
This book assesses the role aesthetic factors play in shaping what forms of mass violence are viewed as international crimes.