Legitimacy and Legality in International Law - An Interactional Account

Informationen zum Autor Jutta Brunnée is Professor of Law and Metcalf Chair in Environmental Law at the University of Toronto. Klappentext An account of the role that legal obligation plays in creating and maintaining effective international law. Zusammenfassung This new theory of international law focuses on legal obligation as the generator of normative commitment. An interdisciplinary analysis of twentieth-century legal theory and constructivist international relations theory provides compelling examples of interactional international law! with provocative accounts including the climate change regime and the anti-torture norm. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction; 1. An interactional theory of international legal obligation; 2. Shared understandings: making and unmaking international law; 3. Interactional law and compliance: law's hidden power; 4. Climate change: building a global legal regime; 5. Torture: undermining normative ambition; 6. The use of force: normative ebb and flow; Conclusion.

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• Authors: Jutta Brunnee, Jutta Toope Brunnee, Stephen J. Toope
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 05.08.2010
• EAN: 9780521706834
• ISBN: 978-0-521-70683-4
• No. of pages: 436
• Series: Cambridge Studies in International and Comparative Law
• Subject: Social sciences, law, business > Law > International law, foreign law