International Law as a Belief System (Cambridge Studies in International and Comparative Law #133)
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- Synopsis
- International Law as a Belief System considers how we construct international legal discourses and the self-referentiality at the centre of all legal arguments about international law. It explores how the fundamental doctrines (e.g. sources, responsibility, statehood, personality, interpretation and jus cogens etc.) constrain legal reasoning by inventing their own origin and dictating the nature of their functioning. In this innovative work, d'Aspremont argues that these processes constitute the mark of a belief system. This book invites international lawyers to temporarily suspend some of their understandings about the fundamental doctrines they adhere to in their professional activities. It aims to provide readers with new tools to reinvent the thinking about international law and combines theory and practice to offer insights that are valuable for both theorists and practitioners. Combines theoretical debates with doctrinal questions and offers insights that are valuable for both theorists and practitioners. Sheds new light on the self-referential foundations of the main doctrines of international law. Presents a first-time, fully articulated claim that international law works as a belief system.
- Copyright:
- 2018
Book Details
- Book Quality:
- Publisher Quality
- ISBN-13:
- 9781108386364
- Related ISBNs:
- 9781108421874, 9781108421874
- Publisher:
- Cambridge University Press
- Date of Addition:
- 06/15/18
- Copyrighted By:
- Jean D’Aspremont
- Adult content:
- No
- Language:
- English
- Has Image Descriptions:
- No
- Categories:
- Law, Legal Issues and Ethics
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- Bookshare Staff
- Usage Restrictions:
- This is a copyrighted book.