Isbn: 9781107521834 - non-legality in international law: unruly law (cambridge studies in international and comparative law) (3 Ergebnisse)

Zustand: New. In English.

Zustand: New. Shows how international lawyers make non-law (extra-legal, illegal and other non-legal phenomena) and why this matters in global politics today. Series: Cambridge Studies in International and Comparative Law. Num Pages: 282 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: LBB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 15. Weight in Grams: 38. . 2015. Reprint. paperback. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland. …

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Druck auf Anfrage Neuware - Printed after ordering - 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.…