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Author: Jeff Handmaker
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2018-11
Total Pages: 265
ISBN-13: 1108497942
DOWNLOAD EBOOKCritically explores how international law is mobilised, by global and local actors, to achieve or block global justice efforts.
Author: Beth A. Simmons
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2009-10-29
Total Pages: 473
ISBN-13: 0521885108
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBeth Simmons demonstrates through a combination of statistical analysis and case studies that the ratification of treaties generally leads to better human rights practices. She argues that international human rights law should get more practical and rhetorical support from the international community as a supplement to broader efforts to address conflict, development, and democratization.
Author: Malcolm Langford
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2013
Total Pages: 497
ISBN-13: 1107012775
DOWNLOAD EBOOKExplores whether states possess extraterritorial obligations under international law to respect and ensure economic, social and cultural rights.
Author: Carlo Focarelli
Publisher: OUP Oxford
Published: 2012-05-24
Total Pages: 632
ISBN-13: 0191632198
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe book distils and articulates international law as a social construct. It does so by analysing its social foundations, essence, and roots in practical and socially workable (as opposed to 'pure') reason. In addition to well-known doctrines of jurisprudence and international law, it draws upon psycho-analytic insights into the origins and nature of law, as well as philosophical social constructivism. The work suggests that seeing law as a social construct is crucial to our understanding of international law and to the struggle to create better working rules. The book re-conceptualizes both past and new doctrines of international law as 'constructs', namely, as strategies of concomitantly de-mythologizing and re-mythologizing international law. Key areas of international law, including subjects, sources, hierarchy, values, and remedies, are shown to be part of this process. The social impact on international law of transnational actors and stakeholders, normative fragmentation, global justice, legitimacy of both rules and players, dynamics and hierarchization of norms, compliance and implementation in municipal law is also extensively investigated. Five basic values of the international community, namely security, humanity, wealth, environment, and knowledge, are explored by stressing their inter- and intra-tensions. Finally, the analysis is extended to the role that international courts play in the prosecution of heads of state and other transnational players who violate international law.
Author: Jovana Davidovic
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Published: 2011
Total Pages: 162
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Published: 2011
Total Pages: 122
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Charles Sampford
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2016-04-08
Total Pages: 383
ISBN-13: 1317064119
DOWNLOAD EBOOKGeneral principles of law have made, and are likely further to make, a significant contribution to our understanding of the constituent elements of global justice. Dealing extensively with global headline issues of peace, security and justice, this book explores justice arising in specific areas of international law, as well as underlying theories of justice from political science and international relations. With contributions from leading academics and practitioners, the book adopts an interdisciplinary approach. Covering issues such as international humanitarian law, and examining the significance of non-state actors for the development of international law, the collection concludes with the complex question of how best to rethink aspects of international justice. The lessons derived from this research will have wide implications for both developed and emerging nation-states in rethinking sensitive issues of international law and justice. As such, this book will be of interest to academics and practitioners interested in international law, environmental law, human rights, ethics, international relations and political theory.
Author: Steven R. Ratner
Publisher: OUP Oxford
Published: 2015-01-15
Total Pages: 497
ISBN-13: 0191009105
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn a world full of armed conflict and human misery, global justice remains one of the most compelling missions of our time. Understanding the promises and limitations of global justice demands a careful appreciation of international law, the web of binding norms and institutions that help govern the behaviour of states and other global actors. This book provides a new interdisciplinary approach to global justice, one that integrates the work and insights of international law and contemporary ethics. It asks whether the core norms of international law are just, appraising them according to a standard of global justice derived from the fundamental values of peace and the protection of human rights. Through a combination of a careful explanation of the legal norms and philosophical argument, Ratner concludes that many international law norms meet such a standard of justice, even as distinct areas of injustice remain within the law and the verdict is still out on others. Among the subjects covered in the book are the rules on the use of force, self-determination, sovereign equality, the decision making procedures of key international organizations, the territorial scope of human rights obligations (including humanitarian intervention), and key areas of international economic law. Ultimately, the book shows how an understanding of international law's moral foundations will enrich the global justice debate, while exposing the ethical consequences of different rules.
Author: Malcolm Langford
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Published: 2014-05-14
Total Pages: 498
ISBN-13: 9781139840026
DOWNLOAD EBOOKExplores whether states possess extraterritorial obligations under international law to respect and ensure economic, social and cultural rights.
Author: Tarik Kochi
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Published: 2019-09-07
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780415683470
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book critically investigates modern international law – assessing the range of its ambitions and, crucially, its failings. Drawing upon the history of early modern political thought and contemporary critical theory, the book argues that modern international law needs to be understood as an extension of the political and economic tradition of liberalism. Liberalism’s promise of the ‘good’ is international law’s promise. But from the beginning, and throughout modernity, this promise is broken. Tarik Kochi trace the outlines of this liberal promise – of liberty and security – obtained through the early modern conceptual innovation of possessive individualism, private property rights and a market economy. He then shows how this promise has been broken, producing forms of domination, insecurity and inequality that are enacted by international law. Sticking to this promise, liberal international law is unable to adequately come to terms with contemporary crises of global war, terrorism, poverty and environmental destruction. And, in response to this paradox, what The Global Good proposes is a return to conceptions of law and the good which prefigure the early modern liberal shift to the privatisation of rights and possessive individualism – that of an alternative global good sketched around the idea of the commons.
