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Record Nr.

UNINA9910779437703321

Autore

Johns Fleur

Titolo

Non-legality in international law : unruly law / / Fleur Johns [[electronic resource]]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2013

ISBN

1-107-23499-9

1-139-61029-5

1-139-60870-3

1-139-61215-8

1-139-61587-4

1-139-01295-9

1-139-62517-9

1-283-87047-9

1-139-62145-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xiii, 259 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)

Collana

Cambridge studies in international and comparative law ; ; 96

Disciplina

341/.1

Soggetti

International law

Illegality

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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.

Sommario/riassunto

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.