International Law and its Others / Anne Orford

By: Orford, AnneContributor(s): Orford, AnneMaterial type: TextTextPublisher number: :Zafaa Books & Distributors | :313/56F 49A, Anand Nagar Inderlok Delhi 110035Publication details: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2006Description: xiv, 420p. 24cmISBN: 9780521124461Subject(s): Law | Law of nations | International law -- Philosophy | Sovereignty | International relations and culture -- Philosophy | Human Rights | LAW -- International | Legal theoryDDC classification: 341.01 ORF
Contents:
COVER; HALF-TITLE; TITLE; COPYRIGHT; DEDICATION; CONTENTS; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; NOTES ON THE CONTRIBUTORS; 1 A jurisprudence of the limit; Part I: Sovereignty otherwise; Part II: Human rights and other values; Part III: The relation to the other; Part IV: History's other actors; PART I Sovereignty otherwise; 2 Speaking law: on bare theological and cosmopolitan sovereignty; 3 Law as conversation; 4 Corporate power and global order; 5 Seasons in the abyss:* reading the void in Cubillo; PART II Human rights and other values; 6 Reassessing international humanitarianism: the dark sides.
Summary: International 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.
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COVER; HALF-TITLE; TITLE; COPYRIGHT; DEDICATION; CONTENTS; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; NOTES ON THE CONTRIBUTORS; 1 A jurisprudence of the limit; Part I: Sovereignty otherwise; Part II: Human rights and other values; Part III: The relation to the other; Part IV: History's other actors; PART I Sovereignty otherwise; 2 Speaking law: on bare theological and cosmopolitan sovereignty; 3 Law as conversation; 4 Corporate power and global order; 5 Seasons in the abyss:* reading the void in Cubillo; PART II Human rights and other values; 6 Reassessing international humanitarianism: the dark sides.

International 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.

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