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Diversity and Self-Determination in International Lawby Karen Knop; James Crawford; John Bell
Cambridge University Press 2002; US$ 49.00When does international law give a group the right to choose its sovereignty? In a fresh perspective on this familiar question, Knop analyzes how many of the groups that self-determination most affects have been marginalized in its interpretation and how key cases have grappled with this problem of diversity. more...
Enforcing Obligations Erga Omnes in International Lawby Christian J. Tams; James Crawford; John Bell
Cambridge University Press 2005; US$ 35.00The concept of obligations erga omnes - obligations to the international community as a whole - has fascinated international lawyers for decades. This book shows how this highly controversial concept has become part of modern-day international law, and how it will enhance human rights in the future. more...
Secessionby Marcelo G. Kohen
Cambridge University Press 2006; US$ 124.00Secession is the creation of a new State through the separation of part of the territory and population of an existing State. This book addresses all the theoretical problems raised by secession throughout the world today, and demonstrates the role played by international law in either preventing or promoting secession. more...
International Law and its Othersby Anne Orford
Cambridge University Press 2006; US$ 44.00International law is appealed to as offering a means of constraining power and as representing universal values. Here, scholars draw on jurisprudence, philosophy, legal history and political theory to analyse this turn towards international law. more...
Beyond a One-Dimensional Stateby Zelim Skurbaty
BRILL 2004; US$ 269.00With a scholarly attention to analytical precision, factual accuracy, and scrupulous objectivity the authors of the present volume ? coming from such diverse fields as international law, philosophy, ethics, economics, political science, - detail and explore the protean character of autonomy as both a concept (autonomy's subtypes, autonomy vs. other arrangements for the diffusion of power within heterogeneous societies, new definitions of the concept, etc.) and a practice (the potential of autonomy in the peaceful resolution of ethnic conflicts; comparative case studies, ranging from Greenland to Eritrea, from the Baltic States to South Asia). more...
Theories of Compliance with International Lawby Markus Burgstaller
BRILL 2004; US$ 128.00This book examines some of the most prominent contemporary theories of compliance with international law. It is argued that these theories ultimately rely on some political philosophy and that therefore their strengths and weaknesses can be traced back to those of the respective philosophical background. The approach finally taken is based on some recent empirical and theoretical research undertaken and as such provides new insights to the major works of the authors that are at the core of the discussion. more...
Selbstbestimmung im Alterby Michael Ganner
Springer 2005; US$ 129.00Es ist Aufgabe der Rechtsordnung sicherzustellen, dass der individuelle Wille respektiert wird, und zwar auch im Alter, bei Pflegebedürftigkeit und bei Behinderung. Wenn Personen aufgrund einer psychischen Krankheit (z.B. Demenz) oder geistigen Behinderung Entscheidungen nicht mehr ohne Schaden für sich selbst treffen können, bedürfen sie jedoch eines besonderen rechtlichen Schutzes. Ausgehend von einer rechtstatsächlichen Erhebung zu Alter und Pflegebedürftigkeit werden in einem Rechtsvergleich zwischen Österreich und Deutschland die verfassungs- und privatrechtlichen Grundlagen der Selbstbestimmung und Privatautonomie untersucht. Besonderes Augenmerk wird dabei auf das Zivilrecht gelegt, das die Grundlage für die Rechtsbeziehungen zwischen... more...
Philosophy of International Lawby Anthony Carty
Edinburgh University Press 2007; US$ 109.45A fundamental challenge to the foundations of the discipline of international law. This book offers an internal critique of the discipline of international law whilst showing the necessary place for philosophy within this subject area. By reintroducing philosophy into the heart of the study of international law Anthony Carty explains how traditional philosophy has always been an integral part of the discipline. However, this has been driven out by legal positivism, which has, in turn become a pure technique of law. He explores the extent of the disintegration and confusion in the discipline and offers various ways of renewing philosophical practice. A range of approaches are covered post-structuralism, neo-Marxist geopolitics, social-democratic... more...
Legitimacy in International Lawby Rudiger Wolfrum; Volker Roben
Springer 2008; US$ 119.00Does international law lack legitimacy in general? Has international law or a part of it yielded to the facts of power? What is the relevance of non-enforcement or failure to obey for the legitimacy of that particular international norm? This book contains perspectives on these questions. more...
Law at the Vanishing Pointby Aaron Fichtelberg
Ashgate Publishing Ltd 2008; US$ 124.95This volume examines the philosophical foundations of modern international law using the tools of Anglo-American legal theory and western political thought. It provides a fascinating new challenge to those who reduce international law to either ethics or politics and provides a critical new appraisal of its power as an independent force in human social relations. more...