Events : the force of international law / / edited by Fleur Johns, Richard Joyce, and Sundhya Pahuja
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| Autore: |
Johns Fleur
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| Titolo: |
Events : the force of international law / / edited by Fleur Johns, Richard Joyce, and Sundhya Pahuja
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| Pubblicazione: | Taylor and Francis, 2010 |
| Edizione: | 1st ed. |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (310 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 341 |
| Soggetto topico: | International law |
| Altri autori: |
JohnsFleur
JoyceRichard John <1978->
PahujaSundhya
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| Note generali: | "A GlassHouse book." |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | The international law in force : anachronistic ethics and divine violence / Jennifer Beard -- Absolute contingency and the prescriptive force of international law, Chiapas-Valladolid, ca. 1550? / Oscar Guardiola-Rivera -- Latin roots : the force of international law as event / Peter Fitzpatrick -- Westphalia : event, memory, myth / Richard Joyce -- The force of a doctrine : Art. 38 of the PCIJ statute and the sources of international law / Thomas Skouteria -- Paris 1793 and 1871 : levee en masse as event / Gerry Simpson -- Decolonisation and the eventness of international law / Sundhya Pahuja -- Postwar to new world order and post-socialist transition : 1989 as pseudo-event / Scott Newton -- The liberation of Nelson Mandela : anatomy of a "happy event" in international law / Frederic Megret -- Political trials as events / Emilios Christodoulidis -- The Tokyo Women's Tribunal and the turn to fiction / Karen Knop -- Many hundred thousand bodies later : an analysis of the "legacy" of the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda / Denise Ferreira da Silva -- From the state to the union : international law and the appropriation of the new Europe / Patricia Tuitt -- The emergence of the World Trade Organization : another triumph of corporate capitalism / Fiona Macmillan -- The World Trade Organisation and development : victory of "rational choice" / Donatella Alessandrini -- Protesting the WTO in Seattle : transnational citizen action, international law and the event / Ruth Buchanan -- Globalism, memory and 9/11 : a critical third world perspective / Obiora Chinedu Okafor -- Provoking international law : war and regime change in Iraq / John Strawson -- The torture memos / Fleur Johns. |
| Sommario/riassunto: | Events: The Force of International Law presents an analysis of international law, centred upon those historical and recent events in which international law has exerted, or acquired, its force. From Spanish colonization and the Peace of Westphalia, through the release of Nelson Mandela and the Rwandan genocide, and to recent international trade negotiations and the 'torture memos', each chapter in this book focuses on a specific international legal event. Short and accessible to the non-specialist reader, these chapters consider what forces are put into play when international law |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Events |
| ISBN: | 1-136-92029-3 |
| 1-136-92030-7 | |
| 1-282-88254-6 | |
| 9786612882548 | |
| 0-203-84446-7 | |
| 9780203844465 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910511405203321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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Routledge advances in European politics.