Republican Principles in International Law
Republican Principles in International Law

Author: Mortimer Newlin Stead Sellers

Publisher:

Published: 2008

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13:

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Two hundred years ago, in the wake of the modern world's first great republican revolutions in France and the United States of America, Immanuel Kant endorsed a federation of independent republics as the only valid basis of international law. This echoed the new federal Constitution of the United States, which guaranteed a "republican form of government" to every state in the Union. Enlightened scholars supposed that if ever some powerful people could form a republic, republican principles would become the basis of a just world order. International law had first developed in the writings of Hugo Grotius, Christian Wolff, Emmerich de Vattel and others on the basis of republican legal principles inherited from Cicero and Rome, and international law depended from the outset for its content and moral validity on republican legal theory. This still remains true today. International laws and institutions depend on republican principles for their binding force and their claims to validity. International law binds and should influence republican governments only to the extent that it reflects republican procedures of politics and legislation.

Republican Principles in International Law
Republican Principles in International Law

Author: M. Sellers

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2006-03-07

Total Pages: 277

ISBN-13: 0230505295

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Republican Principles in International Law considers the fundamental requirements of a just world order, as applied to public international law. This book sets the standard for legitimate government, both within and beyond the jurisdiction of separate states and nations.

Republican Legal Theory
Republican Legal Theory

Author: M. Sellers

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2003-09-07

Total Pages: 211

ISBN-13: 0230513409

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Republican legal theory developed out of the jurisprudential and constitutional legacy of the Roman res publica as interpreted over two millennia in Europe and North America. In this book - the most comprehensive study of republican legal ideas to date - Professor Sellers traces the development of republican legal theory. Explaining the importance of popular sovereignty, the rule of law, the separation of powers and other essential republican legal characteristics, he argues that these republican institutions have introduced a new era of justice into politics.

Legal Republicanism
Legal Republicanism

Author: Samantha Besson

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2009-03-26

Total Pages: 364

ISBN-13: 0199559163

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Interest in republicanism as a political theory has burgeoned in recent years, but its implications for the understanding of law have remained largely unexplored. Legal Republicanism is the first book to offer a comprehensive, critical survey of the potential for creating republican accounts of fundamental issues in law and legal theory. Bringing together contributors with backgrounds in political and legal philosophy, the essays in the volume assess republicanism's historical traditions, conceptual coherence, and normative proposals. The collection offers a valuable insight into new debates taking place in republican political and legal theory. It also analyses potential republican approaches to concrete issues arising in areas of law such as criminal, constitutional and international law. Finally, the book includes comparisons between republican legal traditions and how they react to contemporary challenges. The book will be of value to political and democratic theorists, to legal philosophers and constitutional theorists, and all those interested in the legitimacy of decision-making in national and international settings.

Principles of International Law
Principles of International Law

Author: Hans Kelsen

Publisher: The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd.

Published: 2003

Total Pages: 480

ISBN-13: 1584773251

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Kelsen, Hans. Principles of International Law. New York: Rinehart & Company, Inc. [1952]. xvii, 461 pp. Reprinted 2003 by The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd. ISBN 1-58477-325-1. Cloth. $85. * Upon his retirement from the faculty of University of California at Berkeley in 1952, noted legal philosopher and political scientist Hans Kelsen [1881-1973] produced arguably this his most important work, "... a systematic study of the most important aspects of international law, including international delicts and sanctions, reprisals, the spheres of validity and the essential function of international law, creation and application of international law and national law." Nicoletta Bersier Ladavac, "Hans Kelsen (1881 - 1973) Biographical Note and Bibliography," European Journal of International Law Vol. 9 (1998) No. 2.

Principles of International Law
Principles of International Law

Author: Hans Kelsen

Publisher: Lawbook Exchange Limited

Published: 2012-01-01

Total Pages: 480

ISBN-13: 9781616193058

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Upon his retirement from the faculty of University of California at Berkeley in 1952, noted legal philosopher and political scientist Hans Kelsen produced arguably this his most important work, "... a systematic study of the most important aspects of international law, including international delicts and sanctions, reprisals, the spheres of validity and the essential function of international law, creation and application of international law and national law." Nicoletta Bersier Ladavac, "Hans Kelsen (1881 - 1973) Biographical Note and Bibliography," European Journal of International Law Vol. 9 (1998) No. 2.

A Republican Europe of States
A Republican Europe of States

Author: Richard Bellamy

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2019-01-31

Total Pages: 265

ISBN-13: 1107022282

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Examines the democratic legitimacy of international organisations from a republican perspective, diagnoses the EU as suffering from a democratic disconnect and offers 'demoicracy' as the cure.

International Law: A Very Short Introduction
International Law: A Very Short Introduction

Author: Vaughan Lowe

Publisher: OUP Oxford

Published: 2015-11-26

Total Pages: 145

ISBN-13: 0191576204

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Interest in international law has increased greatly over the past decade, largely because of its central place in discussions such as the Iraq War and Guantanamo, the World Trade Organisation, the anti-capitalist movement, the Kyoto Convention on climate change, and the apparent failure of the international system to deal with the situations in Palestine and Darfur, and the plights of refugees and illegal immigrants around the world. This Very Short Introduction explains what international law is, what its role in international society is, and how it operates. Vaughan Lowe examines what international law can and cannot do and what it is and what it isn't doing to make the world a better place. Focussing on the problems the world faces, Lowe uses terrorism, environmental change, poverty, and international violence to demonstrate the theories and practice of international law, and how the principles can be used for international co-operation.