International law and its others /
International law and its others /
International Law & its Others
edited by Anne Orford.
- xiv, 420 pages ; 22 cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Jurisprudence of the limit / Speaking law : on bare theological and cosmopolitan sovereignty / Law as conversation / Corporate power and global order / Seasons in the abyss : reading the void in Cubillo / Reassessing international humanitarianism : the dark sides / Trade, human rights and the economy of sacrifice / Secrets of the fetish in international law's messianism / Human rights, the self and the other : reflections on a pragmatic theory of human rights / Completing civilization : Creole consciousness and international law in nineteenth century Latin America / From 'savages' to 'unlawful combatants' : a postcolonial look at international humanitarian law's 'other' / Lost in translation : rescripting the sexed subjects of international human rights law / Flesh made law : the economics of female genital mutilation legislation / On critique and the other / Afterword : and forward, there remains so much we do not know / Anne Orford -- Costas Douzinas -- Ian Duncanson -- Dan Danielsen -- Connal Parsley -- David Kennedy -- Anne Orford -- Judith Grbich -- Florian F. Hoffmann -- Liliana Obregón -- Frédéric Me;gret -- Dianne Otto -- Juliet Rogers -- Antony Anghie -- Hilary Charlesworth and David Kennedy.
Institutional and political developments since the end of the Cold War have led to a revival of public interest in, and anxiety about, international law. Liberal international law is appealed to as offering a means of constraining power and as representing universal values. This book brings together scholars who draw on jurisprudence, philosophy, legal history and political theory to analyse the stakes of this turn towards international law. Contributors explore the history of relations between international law and those it defines as other - other traditions, other logics, other forces, and other groups. They explore the archive of international law as a record of attempts by scholars, bureaucrats, decision-makers and legal professionals to think about what happens to law at the limits of modern political organisation. The result is a rich array of responses to the question of what it means to speak and write about international law in our time.
9780521124461 (paperback)
KZ3410 / .I576 2006
341.01
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Jurisprudence of the limit / Speaking law : on bare theological and cosmopolitan sovereignty / Law as conversation / Corporate power and global order / Seasons in the abyss : reading the void in Cubillo / Reassessing international humanitarianism : the dark sides / Trade, human rights and the economy of sacrifice / Secrets of the fetish in international law's messianism / Human rights, the self and the other : reflections on a pragmatic theory of human rights / Completing civilization : Creole consciousness and international law in nineteenth century Latin America / From 'savages' to 'unlawful combatants' : a postcolonial look at international humanitarian law's 'other' / Lost in translation : rescripting the sexed subjects of international human rights law / Flesh made law : the economics of female genital mutilation legislation / On critique and the other / Afterword : and forward, there remains so much we do not know / Anne Orford -- Costas Douzinas -- Ian Duncanson -- Dan Danielsen -- Connal Parsley -- David Kennedy -- Anne Orford -- Judith Grbich -- Florian F. Hoffmann -- Liliana Obregón -- Frédéric Me;gret -- Dianne Otto -- Juliet Rogers -- Antony Anghie -- Hilary Charlesworth and David Kennedy.
Institutional and political developments since the end of the Cold War have led to a revival of public interest in, and anxiety about, international law. Liberal international law is appealed to as offering a means of constraining power and as representing universal values. This book brings together scholars who draw on jurisprudence, philosophy, legal history and political theory to analyse the stakes of this turn towards international law. Contributors explore the history of relations between international law and those it defines as other - other traditions, other logics, other forces, and other groups. They explore the archive of international law as a record of attempts by scholars, bureaucrats, decision-makers and legal professionals to think about what happens to law at the limits of modern political organisation. The result is a rich array of responses to the question of what it means to speak and write about international law in our time.
9780521124461 (paperback)
KZ3410 / .I576 2006
341.01