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Record Nr.

UNINA9910136987803321

Titolo

The power of legality : practices of international law and their politics / / edited by Nikolas M. Rajkovic, Tanja E. Aalberts, Thomas Gammeltoft-Hansen

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2016

ISBN

1-316-68331-1

1-316-68493-8

1-316-68520-9

1-316-68547-0

1-316-68655-8

1-316-68574-8

1-316-68628-0

1-316-53513-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xx, 386 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)

Disciplina

341

Soggetti

International law

Rule of law

Law - Philosophy

Effectiveness and validity of law

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 04 Jul 2016).

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Half-title                 ; Title page                 ; Copyright information                            ; Table of contents                        ; List of figures                      ; Notes on contributors                            ; Foreword               ; Acknowledgements                       ; 1 Introduction: legality, interdisciplinarity and the study of practices                                                                               ; I Legality and the challenge of interdisciplinarity

II Rethinking practices and boundaries                                             III Analysing practices of legality: a heuristic framework                                                                 ; i Social contestation: who decides?                                          ; ii Interpretive contestation: which interpretation rules and why?                                                                        ; IV Overview of the volume                                ; Part I Scholarly



struggles over legality

2 Re-thinking interdisciplinarity by re-reading Hume                                                           Introduction                   ; I Situating the puzzle of human nature                                             ; II Hume's answers to ''philosophy'' (ideal theory): natural history, convention and conversation

3 Tainted love: the struggle over legality in international relations and international law                                                                                                  I The paradoxical return to politics in liberal international relations                                                                              ; i Promoting the legalization of international politics                                                             ; ii Anxieties about legalizing international politics

iii Re-politicizing and confirming the legalization agenda                                                                 II The paradoxical return to law/the faculty of judgement in critical legal studies                                                                                          ; i Critical legal scholarship and interdisciplinarity                                                           ; ii From law to virtue                            ; iii From law to the moral politician

III Concluding observations: towards a politics of becoming

Sommario/riassunto

From an airstrip in Saudi Arabia, the CIA launches drones to 'legally' kill Al-Qaida leaders in Yemen. On the North Pole, Russia plants a flag on the seabed to extend legal claim over resources. In Brussels, the European Commission unveils its Emissions Trading System, extending environmental jurisdiction globally over foreign airlines. And at Frankfurt Airport, a father returning from holiday is detained because his name appears on a security list. Today, legality commands substantial currency in world affairs, yet growing reference to international legality has not marked the end of strategic struggles in global affairs. Rather, it has shifted the field and manner of play for a plurality of actors who now use, influence and contest the way that law's rule is applied to address global problems. Drawing on a range of case studies, this volume explores the various meanings and implications of legality across scholarly, institutional and policy settings.