Buch, Englisch, Band 14, 584 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 1087 g
The Rise and Fall of International Law 1870 1960
Buch, Englisch, Band 14, 584 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 1087 g
Reihe: Hersch Lauterpacht Memorial Lectures
ISBN: 978-0-521-62311-7
Verlag: Cambridge University Press
International law was born from the impulse to 'civilize' late nineteenth-century attitudes towards race and society, argues Martti Koskenniemi in this extensive study of the rise and fall of modern international law. In a work of wide-ranging intellectual scope, now available for the first time in paperback, Koskenniemi traces the emergence of a liberal sensibility relating to international matters in the late nineteenth century, and its subsequent decline after the Second World War. He combines legal analysis, historical and political critique and semi-biographical studies of key figures (including Hans Kelsen, Hersch Lauterpacht, Carl Schmitt and Hans Morgenthau); he also considers the role of crucial institutions (the Institut de droit international, the League of Nations). His discussion of legal and political realism at American law schools ends in a critique of post-1960 'instrumentalism'. This book provides a unique reflection on the possibility of critical international law today.
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Fachgebiete
- Rechtswissenschaften Recht, Rechtswissenschaft Allgemein Rechtstheorie, Rechtsmethodik, Rechtsdogmatik, Rechtsprechungslehre
- Rechtswissenschaften Internationales Recht und Europarecht Internationales Recht Internationales Privatrecht
- Rechtswissenschaften Recht, Rechtswissenschaft Allgemein Rechtsgeschichte, Recht der Antike
- Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Internationale Beziehungen
Weitere Infos & Material
Introduction; 1. 'The legal conscience of the civilized world'; 2. Sovereignty: a gift of civilization; 3. International law as philosophy: Germany 1871-1933; 4. International law as sociology: French 'solidarism' 1871-1950; 5. Lauterpacht: the Victorian tradition in international law; 6. Out of Europe: Carl Schmitt, Hans Morgenthau and the turn to 'international relations'; Epilogue.
