International law on the left : re-examining Marxist legacies / / editor, Susan Marks [[electronic resource]]

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910784707303321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2008
• ISBN: 1-107-18536-X; 1-281-25500-9; 9786611255008; 0-511-38732-6; 0-511-49372-X; 0-511-38629-X; 0-511-38446-7; 0-511-38265-0; 0-511-38831-4
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (x, 319 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)
• Disciplina: 341.01
• Soggetti: International law and socialism
• 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: What should international lawyers learn from Karl Marx / Martti Koskenniemi -- An outline of a Marxist course on public international law / B. S. Chimni -- The commodity-form theory of international law / China Mieville -- Positivism versus self-determination: the contradictions of Soviet international law / Bill Bowring -- Marxism and international law: perspectives for the American (twenty-first) century? / Anthony Carty -- Toward a radical political economy critique of transnational economic law / A. Claire Cutler -- Marxian insights for the human rights project / Brad R. Roth -- Marxian embraces (and de-couplings) in Upendra Baxi's human rights scholarship: a case study / Obiora Chinedu Okafor -- Exploitation as an international legal concept / Susan Marks.
• Sommario/riassunto: Against expectations that the turn away from state socialism would likewise initiate a turn away from Marxist thought, recent years have ; seen a resurgence of interest in Marxism and its reassessment by a new generation of theorists. This book pursues that interest with specific reference to international law. It presents a sustained and fascinating exploration of the pertinence of Marxist ideas, concepts and analytical practices for international legal enquiry from a range of angles. Essays consider the relationship between Marxism and critical approaches to international law, the legacy of Soviet international legal theory, the bearing of Marxism for the analysis of international trade law and human rights, and the significance for international legal enquiry of such Marxist concepts as the commodity, praxis and exploitation.