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Informationen zum Autor KAREN KNOP is Associate Professor of Law in the Faculty of Law, University of Toronto, where she teaches international law and issues of self-determination in international law. She is editor, with Sylvia Ostry, Richard Simeon and Katherine Swinton of Re-Thinking Federalism: Citizens, Markets and Governments in a Changing World (1995). Klappentext Knop's investigation takes a new approach to the problem of diversity and self-determination of peoples. Zusammenfassung When does international law give a group the right to choose its sovereignty? In a fresh perspective on this familiar question! Knop analyses how many of the groups that self-determination most affects have been marginalized in its interpretation and how key cases have grappled with this problem of diversity. Inhaltsverzeichnis Part I. Cold War International Legal Literature: 1. The question of norm-type; 2. Interpretation and identity; 3. Pandemonium, interpretation and participation; Part II. Self-determination interpreted in practice: the challenge of culture: 4. The canon of self-determination; 5. Developing texts; Part III. Self-Determination Interpreted in Practice: The Challenge of Gender: 6. Women and self-determination in Europe after World War I; 7. Women and self-determination in United Nations trust territories; 8. Indigenous women and self-determination; Conclusion.
