Format:
1 Online-Ressource (xiv, 569 Seiten)
ISBN:
9780511494222
Series Statement:
Hersch Lauterpacht memorial lectures 14
Content:
International law was born from the impulse to 'civilize' late nineteenth-century attitudes towards race and society, argues Martti Koskenniemi in this extensive study of the rise and fall of modern international law. In a work of wide-ranging intellectual scope, now available for the first time in paperback, Koskenniemi traces the emergence of a liberal sensibility relating to international matters in the late nineteenth century, and its subsequent decline after the Second World War. He combines legal analysis, historical and political critique and semi-biographical studies of key figures (including Hans Kelsen, Hersch Lauterpacht, Carl Schmitt and Hans Morgenthau); he also considers the role of crucial institutions (the Institut de droit international, the League of Nations). His discussion of legal and political realism at American law schools ends in a critique of post-1960 'instrumentalism'. This book provides a unique reflection on the possibility of critical international law today
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Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780521623117
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780521548090
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Koskenniemi, Martti, 1953 - The gentle civilizer of nations Cambridge [u.a.] : Cambridge Univ. Press, 2002 ISBN 0521623111
Language:
English
Subjects:
Political Science
,
Law
Keywords:
Völkerrecht
;
Geschichte 1870-1960
DOI:
10.1017/CBO9780511494222
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Author information:
Koskenniemi, Martti 1953-
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