Critical International Law

Postrealism, Postcolonialism, and Transnationalism
Herausgeber: Singh, Prabhakar; Mayer, Benoit

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Produktbeschreibung

The number of scholars engaging critically with the paradoxes hidden in international law continues to grow. This edited volume features contributions by scholars from around the world, from different generations, and with different critical perspectives, reflecting the vibrancy of contemporary critical debates. The editors have identified three main streams representating critical international law. While Postrealism discusses international laws and international politics, Postcolonialism grapples with the understanding of international law vis-a-vis decolonized countries informed by sociology, philosophy and history. Transnationalism displaces states as the primary makers of international law to include non-state actors in the global governance, if any, of international law. This book would be useful to students and researchers in international law and related disciplines (e.g. international relations, global studies, political science, sociology of law).

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Sydney University Press
• Seitenzahl: 352
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. Oktober 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 221mm x 150mm x 33mm
• Gewicht: 544g
• ISBN-13: 9780199450633
• ISBN-10: 0199450633
• Artikelnr.: 40701606

Autorenporträt

Prabhakar Singh, President's Graduate Fellow and Associate, Centre for International Law, Faculty of Law, National University of Singapore. Benoît Mayer, PhD candidate and research scholar at the National University of Singapore.

Inhaltsangabe

* Acknowledgements
* Foreword by Simon Chesterman
* 1: Thinking International Law Critically: One Attitude, Three
Perspectives (Prabhakar Singh and Benoît Mayer)
* Section I: Postrealism
* 2: Descendants of Realism? Policy-oriented International Lawyers as
Guardians of Democracy (Hengameh Saberi)
* 3: Riddles of the Sands: Time, Power, and Legitimacy in International
Law (John R. Morss)
* 4: The Welfarist Approach to International Law: An Appraisal (
Rossana Deplano)
* 5: Revisiting the Role of the International Courts and Tribunals? (
Prabhakar Singh)
* Section II: Postcolonialism
* 6: Towards a Post-colonial International Law (Antony Anghie)
* 7: A Universal History of Infamy: Human Rights, Eurocentrism, and
Modernity as Crisis (José-Manuel Barreto)
* 8: 'Suffering' the Paradox of Rights? Critical Subaltern
Historiography and the Genealogy of Empathy (Mark Toufayan)
* 9: The 'Magic Circle' of Rights Holders: Human Rights' Outsiders (
Benoît Mayer)
* Section III: Transnationalism
* 10: The Rise and Fall of 'International Man' (Frédéric Mégret)
* 11: The Human Right to Water as a 'Creature' of Global Administrative
Law (Owen McIntyre)
* 12: Of Precedents and Ideology: Law-making by Investment Arbitration
Tribunals (Rene Urueña)
* 13: Constitutionalism and Pluralism: Two Ways of Looking at
Internationalism (Prabhakar Singh and Sonja Kübler)
* Afterword
* 14: What's Critical about Critical International Law? Reflections on
the Emancipatory Potential of International Legal Scholarship (
Sébastien Jodoin and Katherine Lofts)
* Index