International law and its others / edited by Anne Orford.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Orford, Anne, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

International law--Social aspects.

International law.

International law--Psychological aspects.

International law--Economic aspects.

Psychological aspects.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiv, 420 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)

Other Title:

International Law & its Others

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2006.

System Details:

text file

PDF

Summary:

Institutional and political developments since the end of the Cold War have led to a revival of public interest in, and anxiety about, international law. Liberal international law is appealed to as offering a means of constraining power and as representing universal values. This book brings together scholars who draw on jurisprudence, philosophy, legal history and political theory to analyse the stakes of this turn towards international law. Contributors explore the history of relations between international law and those it defines as other - other traditions, other logics, other forces, and other groups. They explore the archive of international law as a record of attempts by scholars, bureaucrats, decision-makers and legal professionals to think about what happens to law at the limits of modern political organisation. The result is a rich array of responses to the question of what it means to speak and write about international law in our time.

Contents:

Jurisprudence of the limit / Anne Orford

Speaking law : on bare theological and cosmopolitan sovereignty / Costas Douzinas

Law as conversation / Ian Duncanson

Corporate power and global order / Dan Danielsen

Seasons in the abyss : reading the void in Cubillo / Connal Parsley

Reassessing international humanitarianism : the dark sides / David Kennedy

Trade, human rights and the economy of sacrifice / Anne Orford

Secrets of the fetish in international law's messianism / Judith Grbich

Human rights, the self and the other : reflections on a pragmatic theory of human rights / Florian F. Hoffmann

Completing civilization : Creole consciousness and international law in nineteenth century Latin America / Liliana Obregón

From 'savages' to 'unlawful combatants' : a postcolonial look at international humanitarian law's 'other' / Frédéric Me;gret

Lost in translation : rescripting the sexed subjects of international human rights law / Dianne Otto

Flesh made law : the economics of female genital mutilation legislation / Juliet Rogers

On critique and the other / Antony Anghie

Afterword : and forward, there remains so much we do not know / Hilary Charlesworth and David Kennedy.

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ISBN:

9780511494284

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