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Non-legality in international law : unruly law / Fleur Johns.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Johns, Fleur, author.
- Series:
- Cambridge studies in international and comparative law (Cambridge, England : 1996) ; 96.
- Cambridge studies in international and comparative law ; 96
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- International law.
- Illegality.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xiii, 259 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2013.
- System Details:
- text file
- Summary:
- International lawyers typically start with the legal. What is a legal as opposed to a political question? How should international law adapt to the unforeseen? These are the routes by which international lawyers typically reason. This book begins, instead, with the non-legal. In a series of case studies, Fleur Johns examines what international lawyers cast outside or against law - as extra-legal, illegal, pre-legal or otherwise non-legal - and how this comes to shape political possibility. Non-legality is not merely the remainder of regulatory action. It is a key structuring device of contemporary global order. Constructions of non-legality are pivotal to debate in areas ranging from torture to foreign investment and from climate change to natural disaster relief. Understandings of non-legality inform what international lawyers today do and what they refrain from doing. Tracing and potentially reimagining the non-legal in international legal work is, accordingly, both vital and pressing.
- Contents:
- Making non-legalities in international law
- Illegality and the torture memos
- Black holes and the outside within: extra-legality in international law
- Doing deals: pre- and post-legal choice in transnational financing
- Receiving climate change: law, science and supra-legality
- Death, disaster and infra-legality in international law.
- Notes:
- Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
- Other Format:
- Print version:
- ISBN:
- 9781139012959
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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