Format:
viii, 298 Seiten
ISBN:
9780674290785
Content:
A searching dialogue between two leading legal scholars exploring the place of law in global affairs. The modern world is legalized: legal language, institutions, and professionals are everywhere. But what is law’s power in global life? What does all this legality have to do with hegemony, with hierarchy and inequality, and with the diversity of human experience? What is its history and how does that history matter in world affairs? Above all, what does it mean to think “critically” about law and global affairs? In this poignant and iconoclastic book, two leading scholars take us to the heart of the matter, examining law’s relationship with history, power, and political economy. David Kennedy and Martti Koskenniemi have often inspired each other and are both considered “critical” voices in international law, but they have never explored their similarities and differences as deeply as they do here. Of Law and the World takes the form of a conversation, as the authors reflect on the study of international law, the motivations underlying their research, and the payoffs and limitations of their investigations into law’s role in global affairs. They revisit and renew debates about the past and future of the many legalities that shape our world. Erudite, open-minded, and informed by decades of experience and observation, Of Law and the World is an unflinchingly honest confrontation with humanity’s struggle to live together.
Note:
"The seven texts ... are the edited transcripts of conversations we had between August 2021 and February 2022 while the covid pandemic kept us homebound"--Preface
,
What Is Critique?
,
What Is International Law?
,
International Law and Power
,
Many International Legalities: Hegemony and Differentiation
,
International Legal History as Critique
,
Law in the Political Economy of the World
,
Concluding Thoughts-Open Questions
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Online-Ausgabe Kennedy, David, 1954 - Of law and the world Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, 2023 ISBN 9780674294899
Language:
English
Keywords:
Wirtschaftspolitik
;
Internationales Recht
;
Geschichte
Author information:
Kennedy, David 1954-
Author information:
Koskenniemi, Martti 1953-
