International law and its others / edited by Anne Orford.

Contributor(s):

Orford, Anne [editor.]

Publisher: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, c2006, 2009Description: xiv, 420 pages ; 22 cmISBN:

9780521124461 (paperback)

Other title:

International Law & its Others

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

341.01 22

LOC classification:

KZ3410 .I576 2006

Contents:

Jurisprudence of the limit / Anne Orford -- Speaking law : on bare theological and cosmopolitan sovereignty / Costas Douzinas -- Law as conversation / Ian Duncanson -- Corporate power and global order / Dan Danielsen -- Seasons in the abyss : reading the void in Cubillo / Connal Parsley -- Reassessing international humanitarianism : the dark sides / David Kennedy -- Trade, human rights and the economy of sacrifice / Anne Orford -- Secrets of the fetish in international law's messianism / Judith Grbich -- Human rights, the self and the other : reflections on a pragmatic theory of human rights / Florian F. Hoffmann -- Completing civilization : Creole consciousness and international law in nineteenth century Latin America / Liliana Obregón -- From 'savages' to 'unlawful combatants' : a postcolonial look at international humanitarian law's 'other' / Frédéric Me;gret -- Lost in translation : rescripting the sexed subjects of international human rights law / Dianne Otto -- Flesh made law : the economics of female genital mutilation legislation / Juliet Rogers -- On critique and the other / Antony Anghie -- Afterword : and forward, there remains so much we do not know / Hilary Charlesworth and David Kennedy.

Summary: 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.

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Item type	Current library	Home library	Call number	Copy number	Status	Date due	Barcode	Item holds
Book	Ayesha Abed Library General Stacks	Ayesha Abed Library General Stacks	341.01 INT (Browse shelf(Opens below))	1	Available		3010037547

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

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