UID:
almahu_9947414239502882
Format:
1 online resource (xiii, 259 pages) :
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digital, PDF file(s).
ISBN:
9781139012959 (ebook)
Series Statement:
Cambridge studies in international and comparative law ; 96
Content:
International lawyers typically start with the legal. What is a legal as opposed to a political question? How should international law adapt to the unforeseen? These are the routes by which international lawyers typically reason. This book begins, instead, with the non-legal. In a series of case studies, Fleur Johns examines what international lawyers cast outside or against law - as extra-legal, illegal, pre-legal or otherwise non-legal - and how this comes to shape political possibility. Non-legality is not merely the remainder of regulatory action. It is a key structuring device of contemporary global order. Constructions of non-legality are pivotal to debate in areas ranging from torture to foreign investment and from climate change to natural disaster relief. Understandings of non-legality inform what international lawyers today do and what they refrain from doing. Tracing and potentially reimagining the non-legal in international legal work is, accordingly, both vital and pressing.
Note:
Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
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Making non-legalities in international law -- Illegality and the torture memos -- Black holes and the outside within: extra-legality in international law -- Doing deals: pre- and post-legal choice in transnational financing -- Receiving climate change: law, science and supra-legality -- Death, disaster and infra-legality in international law.
Additional Edition:
Print version: ISBN 9781107014015
Language:
English
Subjects:
Law
URL:
https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781139012959
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