The Project Of Positivism In International Law

Author : Mónica García-Salmones Rovira
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 0191508314
Total Pages : 442 pages
Book Rating : 4.18/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Project of Positivism in International Law written by Mónica García-Salmones Rovira and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2013-11-28 with total page 442 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: International legal positivism has been crucial to the development of international law since the nineteenth century. It is often seen as the basis of mainstream or traditional international legal thought. The Project of Positivism in International Law addresses this theory in the long-standing tradition of critical intellectual histories of international law. It provides a nuanced analysis of the resilience of the economic-positivist theory, and shows how influential its role was in shaping the modern frameworks of international law. The book argues that the rise of positivist international law was inseparable from philosophical developments placing the notion of conflict of interests at the centre of collective life. Where previously international thought was dominated by notions of the right, the just, and the good, increasingly international relations became viewed as 'interests' in need of harmonisation. In this context, international law was re-founded as the universal law that could harmonise the interests of both public and private international entities. The book argues that these evolutions in philosophical thought were bound up with the consolidation of capitalism, and with the ideas about human existence and human nature which emerged in that process. It provides an innovative analysis of the selected biography of ideas which it presents, including a detailed focus on the work of Hans Kelsen, one of the leading positivist thinkers of the twentieth century. It also argues that the work of Lassa Oppenheim should be included within this analysis, as providing some of the key founding texts of positivism in international law. This book will be a fascinating read for scholars and students of international legal theory, historians of ideas, and legal philosophers.

Author : Jörg Kammerhofer
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107019265
Total Pages : 555 pages
Book Rating : 4.63/5 ( download)

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Download or read book International Legal Positivism in a Post-Modern World written by Jörg Kammerhofer and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2014-10-06 with total page 555 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first comprehensive study of international legal positivism and how this theory operates in twenty-first-century international legal scholarship.

Author : Mónica García-Salmones Rovira
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199685207
Total Pages : 449 pages
Book Rating : 4.02/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Project of Positivism in International Law written by Mónica García-Salmones Rovira and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2013-11 with total page 449 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This book analyses international legal positivists' desire to emulate the success of the empirical methods applied in the biological and physical sciences; their wish to work with law with the certainty that natural facts started to provide as the natural sciences method developed". -- PREFACE.

Author : Steven R. Ratner
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 0191009113
Total Pages : 500 pages
Book Rating : 4.12/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Thin Justice of International Law written by Steven R. Ratner and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2015-01-15 with total page 500 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a world full of armed conflict and human misery, global justice remains one of the most compelling missions of our time. Understanding the promises and limitations of global justice demands a careful appreciation of international law, the web of binding norms and institutions that help govern the behaviour of states and other global actors. This book provides a new interdisciplinary approach to global justice, one that integrates the work and insights of international law and contemporary ethics. It asks whether the core norms of international law are just, appraising them according to a standard of global justice derived from the fundamental values of peace and the protection of human rights. Through a combination of a careful explanation of the legal norms and philosophical argument, Ratner concludes that many international law norms meet such a standard of justice, even as distinct areas of injustice remain within the law and the verdict is still out on others. Among the subjects covered in the book are the rules on the use of force, self-determination, sovereign equality, the decision making procedures of key international organizations, the territorial scope of human rights obligations (including humanitarian intervention), and key areas of international economic law. Ultimately, the book shows how an understanding of international law's moral foundations will enrich the global justice debate, while exposing the ethical consequences of different rules.

Author : Anne Orford
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 019100555X
Total Pages : 1000 pages
Book Rating : 4.58/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of the Theory of International Law written by Anne Orford and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2016-05-26 with total page 1000 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Oxford Handbook of International Legal Theory provides an accessible and authoritative guide to the major thinkers, concepts, approaches, and debates that have shaped contemporary international legal theory. The Handbook features 48 original essays by leading international scholars from a wide range of traditions, nationalities, and perspectives, reflecting the richness and diversity of this dynamic field. The collection explores key questions and debates in international legal theory, offers new intellectual histories for the discipline, and provides fresh interpretations of significant historical figures, texts, and theoretical approaches. It provides a much-needed map of the field of international legal theory, and a guide to the main themes and debates that have driven theoretical work in international law. The Handbook will be an indispensable reference work for students, scholars, and practitioners seeking to gain an overview of current theoretical debates about the nature, function, foundations, and future role of international law.

Author : Jochen von Bernstorff
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1139488589
Total Pages : 343 pages
Book Rating : 4.87/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Public International Law Theory of Hans Kelsen written by Jochen von Bernstorff and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2010-10-28 with total page 343 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This analysis of Hans Kelsen's international law theory takes into account the context of the German international legal discourse in the first half of the twentieth century, including the reactions of Carl Schmitt and other Weimar opponents of Kelsen. The relationship between his Pure Theory of Law and his international law writings is examined, enabling the reader to understand how Kelsen tried to square his own liberal cosmopolitan project with his methodological convictions as laid out in his Pure Theory of Law. Finally, Jochen von Bernstorff discusses the limits and continuing relevance of Kelsenian formalism for international law under the term of 'reflexive formalism', and offers a reflection on Kelsen's theory of international law against the background of current debates over constitutionalisation, institutionalisation and fragmentation of international law. The book also includes biographical sketches of Hans Kelsen and his main students Alfred Verdross and Joseph L. Kunz.

Author : Carlo Focarelli
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199584834
Total Pages : 628 pages
Book Rating : 4.33/5 ( download)

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Download or read book International Law as Social Construct written by Carlo Focarelli and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2012-05-24 with total page 628 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores international law as a social construct by analysing its social foundations and by re-conceptualizing the way in which it is commonly understood. It asks what law is and how it works in society, and shows why it is worth to struggle for new and better-working rules in the international legal order.

Author : Samantha Besson
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0198745362
Total Pages : 1233 pages
Book Rating : 4.65/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Oxford Handbook on the Sources of International Law written by Samantha Besson and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2017 with total page 1233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This handbook examines the sources of international law, how the understanding of sources changed throughout the history of international law; how the main legal theories understood sources; the relationship between sources and the legitimacy of international law; and how sources differ across the various sub-areas of international law.--

Author : Jean d'Aspremont
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 0191504831
Total Pages : 1494 pages
Book Rating : 4.39/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Formalism and the Sources of International Law written by Jean d'Aspremont and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2013-05-23 with total page 1494 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book revisits the theory of the sources of international law from the perspective of formalism. It critically analyses the virtues of formalism, construed as a theory of law ascertainment, as a means of distinguishing between law and non-law. The theory of formalism is re-evaluated against the backdrop of the growing acceptance by international legal theorists of the blurring of the lines between law and non-law. At the same time, the book acknowledges that much international normative activity nowadays takes place outside the ambit of traditional international law and that only a limited part of the exercise of public authority at the international level results in the creation of international legal rules. The theory of ascertainment that the book puts forward attempts to dispel some of the illusions of formalism that accompany the traditional sources of international law. It also sheds light on the tendency of scholars, theorists, and advocates to deformalize the identification of international legal rules with a view to expanding international law. The book seeks to revitalize and refresh the formal identification of rules by engaging with some tenets of the postmodern critique of formalism. As a result, the book not only grapples with the practice of law-making at the international level, but it also offers broad theoretical insights on international law, dealing with the main schools of thought in legal theory (positivism, naturalism, legal realism, policy-oriented jurisprudence, and postmodernism). This paperback edition features the author's discussion of this book on the EJIL Talk blog.

Author : Anne Orford
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0198701950
Total Pages : 1089 pages
Book Rating : 4.58/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of the Theory of International Law written by Anne Orford and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2016 with total page 1089 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Histories -- Approaches -- Regimes and doctrines -- Debates