Alfred P. Rubin, Rubin Alfred P.

Ethics and Authority in International Law

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

The specialised vocabularies of lawyers, ethicists, and political scientists obscure the roots of many real disagreements. In this book, the distinguished American international lawyer Alfred Rubin provides a penetrating account of where these roots lie, and argues powerfully that disagreements which have existed for 3,000 years are unlikely to be resolved soon. Current attempts to make 'war crimes' or 'terrorism' criminal under international law seem doomed to fail for the same reasons that attempts failed in the early nineteenth century to make piracy, war crimes, and the international traffic in slaves criminal under the law of nations. And for the same reasons, Professor Rubin argues, it is unlikely that an international criminal court can be instituted today to enforce ethicists' versions of 'international law'.

Table of contents:
1. Introduction; 2. The international legal order; 3. Theory and practice come together; 4. Putting it together; 5. Implications for today.

Alfred Rubin argues that longstanding disagreements between lawyers, ethicists, and political scientists are unlikely to be resolved soon, and that it is unlikely that an international criminal court can be instituted today to enforce ethicists' versions of 'international law'.

Alfred Rubin provides a powerful account of positivism and international law in the modern world.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. Mai 2004
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 573g
• ISBN-13: 9780521582025
• ISBN-10: 0521582024
• Artikelnr.: 22099352

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
Acknowledgements
List of abbreviations
Table of cases
Table of statutes
Table of treaties
1. Introduction
2. The international legal order
3. Theory and practice come together
4. Putting it together
5. Implications for today
Bibliography
Index.