1 option
Legal personality in international law / Roland Portmann.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Portmann, Roland, 1977- author.
- Series:
- Cambridge studies in international and comparative law (Cambridge, England : 1996) ; 70.
- Cambridge studies in international and comparative law ; 70
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Persons (International law).
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xxiv, 333 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2010.
- System Details:
- text file
- Summary:
- Several international legal issues are related to the concept of legal personality, including the determination of international rights and duties of non-state actors and the legal capacities of transnational institutions. When addressing these issues, different understandings of legal personality are employed. These concepts consider different entities to be international persons, state different criteria for becoming one and attach different consequences to being one. In this book, Roland Portmann systematizes the different positions on international personality by spelling out the assumptions on which they rest and examining how they were substantiated in legal practice. He puts forward the argument that positions on international personality which strongly emphasize the role of states or effective actors rely on assumptions that have been discarded in present international law. The principal argument is that international law has to be conceived as an open system, wherein there is no presumption for or against certain entities enjoying international personality.
- Contents:
- Notion
- Conceptions
- Significance
- Early doctrine and practice
- The states-only conception
- The recognition conception
- The individualistic conception
- The formal conception
- The actor conception
- Appraisal of the conceptions and their assumptions
- An individualistic and formal frame of reference.
- Notes:
- Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
- Other Format:
- Print version:
- ISBN:
- 9780511779848
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
The Penn Libraries is committed to describing library materials using current, accurate, and responsible language. If you discover outdated or inaccurate language, please fill out this feedback form to report it and suggest alternative language.