The project of positivism in international law / Mónica García-Salmones Rovira.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

García-Salmones Rovira, Mónica, author.

Series:

History and theory of international law

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

International law--Philosophy--History.

International law.

Legal positivism.

International law--Philosophy.

History.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

viii, 427 pages ; 24 cm.

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Oxford, United Kingdom : Oxford University Press, 2013.

Summary:

In the past few decades the understanding of the relationship between nations has undergone a radical transformation. The role of the traditional nation-state is used to describe what has been called, ever since Jeremy Bentham coined the phrase in 1786, 'international law'. The older boundaries between states are growing ever more fluid, new conceptions and new languages have emerged which are slowly coming to replace the image of a world of sovereign independent nation states which has dominated the study of international relations since the early nineteenth century. This redefinition of the international arena demands a new understanding of classical and contemporary questions in international and legal theory. It is the editors' conviction that the best way to achieve this is by bridging the traditional divide between international legal theory, intellectual history, and legal and political history. The aim of the series, therefore, is to provide a forum for historical antiquity to the twenty-first century, that are theoretically-informed and for philosophical work-that is historically conscious, in the hope that a new vision of the rapidly evolving international world, its past and its possible future, may emerge. Book jacket.

Contents:

Towards a science of international law

The new substance : Lassa Oppenheim on interests

Oppenheim, empire, and method

The scientific method of international law : Kelsen

Biography and important influences

The original Kelsen : the epistemological method

The economic origins of the pure theory

Launching the Universalist Project.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 373-415) and index.

ISBN:

0199685207

9780199685202

OCLC:

834977915