The project of positivism in international law / Monica Garcia-Salmones Rovira.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

García-Salmones Rovira, Mónica.

Series:

History and theory of international law.

History And Theory Of International Law

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

International law--Philosophy.

International law.

Internationalism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (1069 p.)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2014.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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 itsrole was in shaping the modern frameworks of international law. The book argues that the rise of positivist international la

Contents:

Cover Page; Title Page; Preface; Contents; Table of Cases; List of Abbreviations; Introduction; 1. Towards a Science of International Law; 1.1 Demystifying, Economic Pragmatism; 1.2 The Fall of Natural Law; 1.3 The Pacifists on the Solidarity of Interests; 1.4 Pragmatism and Territory; 2. The New Substance: Lassa Oppenheim on Interests; 2.1 The Man and His Ideals; 2.2 Within the English Tradition; 2.3 'Economic interests, primarily': Common Interests; 2.4 A Structure of Interests; 3. Oppenheim, Empire, and Method; 3.1 British Empire and World Order; 3.2 The Essential Irrelevancy of Law

3.3 Against a Constitutional Empire: Private Interests and Their Historical Tasks3.4 Method: the State of the Question; 4. The Scientific Method of International Law: Kelsen; 4.1 Austrian fin-de-siècle Liberalism; 4.2 The Struggle of Interests: Between Atomism, Universalism, and Power; 4.3 Ideology and the Dictatorship of Interests; 4.4 The Invention of Normativity; 4.5 Territorial Sovereignty and the Grundnorm; 4.6 The Dualist Method, After All; 5. Biography and Important Influences; 5.1 The Life of a Cosmopolite; 5.2 Influences from Legal Theory

6. The Original Kelsen: the Epistemological Method6.1 On Kelsen's Sein: Kelsenian Sociological Themes; 6.2 In Search of Objectivity: Validity Versus Psychology; 6.3 The Question of Autonomous Morality: Julius Hermann von Kirchmann and Hans Kelsen; 7. The Economic Origins of the Pure Theory; 7.1 Hume on Interests, Rules, and Epistemology; 7.2 The Disruption of the Order of Interests: from 'Commercial Sociability' to 'Economic Sociability'; 7.3 Beyond the Subjectivism of Neo-Kantians and their Syncretism of Methods; 7.4 From the Point of View of the Austrian Economic School

7.5 Von Wieser on Imputation, the Value Theory, Law, and Power7.6 The Legal-economic Aspect of Kelsen's Method: Objectification Through Privatization; 8. Launching the Universalist Project; 8.1 Legal Universalism: the Absence of Transcendence; 8.2 Cosmopolitanism of Contents as Administration; Epilogue; Bibliography; Index; Footnotes; Introductionfn; Ch01Fn; Ch02Fn; Ch03Fn; Ch04Fn; Ch05Fn; Ch06Fn; Ch07Fn; Ch08Fn; Epiloguefn

Notes:

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

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ISBN:

0-19-176540-6

0-19-150831-4

0-19-150830-6

OCLC:

870284291