The decay of international law : a reappraisal of the limits of legal imagination in international affairs / Anthony Carty.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Carty, Anthony, author.

Series:

Melland Schill Studies in International Law Series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

International law.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (217 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Manchester, England : Manchester University Press, [2019]

Summary:

Originally published in 1986 this book has become a classic of international law literature. It was a penetrating critique of the methodology of international law as it had come to be understood and accepted by the generality of international lawyers. It called for a realisation of the crucial role which international lawyers should play in reflecting in the nature and implications of the principles and arguments used by governments and other actors in the international stage. It called for a positive legal analysis of international issues. This edition comes with a new 10,000 word introduction that will put the original work it in its proper historical context. New generations of international legal scholars who did not read Carty in the 1980s and who have had little chance to do so since then because of the book's unavailability will show a great deal of interest in delving into the thoughts of one of the most influential critical legal thinkers.

Contents:

Front matter

Contents

Series editors' foreword to the 2019 edition

Series editor's foreword to the1986 edition

Preface to the 1986 edition

Introduction to the 2019 edition Decay as unilateralism -fragmentation as the normal

Chapter 1 Introduction: a crisis of method in international law

Chapter 2 Legal doctrine and the development of international legal concepts

Chapter 3 General customary law

Chapter 4 Doctrinal conceptions of the law relating to territory

Chapter 5 'Pure' theories of treaty law: a world without diplomacy

Chapter 6 Legal doctrine, the principle of non-intervention and the practice of States

Chapter 7 Legal method, the 'state of nature' and some contemporary issues of self-determination

Index.

Notes:

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ISBN:

9781526127921

152612792X

OCLC:

1438669942