Ethics and Authority in International Law

Klappentext The distinguished international lawyer Alfred Rubin argues powerfully that disagreements that have existed for thousands of years among lawyers! ethicists! and political scientists are unlikely to be resolved soon. Current attempts to make "war crimes" or "terrorism" criminal under international law seem doomed to fail for the same reasons that attempts failed in the early nineteenth century to make piracy! war crimes! and the international traffic in slaves criminal under the law of nations. Zusammenfassung Alfred Rubin argues that longstanding disagreements between lawyers! ethicists and political scientists are unlikely to be resolved soon! and that it is unlikely that an international criminal court can be instituted today to enforce ethicists' versions of 'international law'. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface; Acknowledgements; List of abbreviations; Table of cases; Table of statutes; Table of treaties; 1. Introduction; 2. The international legal order; 3. Theory and practice come together; 4. Putting it together; 5. Implications for today; Bibliography; Index.

Product details

• Authors: Rubin Alfred P., Alfred P. Rubin, Alfred P. (Tufts University Rubin
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 13.07.1997
• EAN: 9780521582025
• ISBN: 978-0-521-58202-5
• No. of pages: 256
• Series: Cambridge Studies in Internati
• Subjects: Guides > Law, job, finance > Family law; Social sciences, law, business > Law > International law, foreign law