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The first comprehensive study of international legal positivism and how this theory operates in twenty-first-century international legal scholarship.
List of contents
1. Introduction: the future of international legal positivism Jean d'Aspremont and Jörg Kammerhofer; Part I. Theorising International Legal Positivism: 2. Classical positivism in international law revisited Richard Collins; 3. German intellectual historical origins of international legal positivism Jochen von Bernstorff; 4. Hans Kelsen in today's international legal scholarship Jörg Kammerhofer; 5. Herbert Hart in today's international legal scholarship Jean d'Aspremont; 6. Beyond Kelsen and Hart Alexander Somek; 7. Post-modern perspectives on orthodox positivism Ingo Venzke; Part II. Relating International Legal Positivism: 8. International legal positivism and modern natural law Patrick Capps; 9. International legal positivism and legal realism Jeremy Telman; 10. International legal positivism and constitutionalism Jan Klabbers; 11. International legal positivism and new approaches to international law Sahib Singh; Part III. Using International Legal Positivism: 12. Interpretation Gleider Hernández; 13. Teaching general public international law Florian Hoffmann; 14. International law in domestic and supranational settings Beatrice Bonafé; 15. Transnational governance regimes Dennis Patterson; 16. Human rights from a neo-voluntarist perspective Théodore Christakis; 17. International criminal law Dov Jacobs; 18. International humanitarian law Yael Ronen; 19. Use of force Christian Tams and Antonios Tzanakopoulos.
About the author
Jörg Kammerhofer is a senior research fellow and senior lecturer at the Faculty of Law, University of Freiburg, Germany. He is also a visiting lecturer at the University of Economics and Business Administration in Vienna, Austria.Jean d'Aspremont holds the Chair of Public International Law at the University of Manchester. He is also Professor of International Legal Theory at the University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
Summary
Legal positivism in its various forms remains at the forefront of theoretical debates in scholarship. This book engages with contemporary international legal positivism after decades of critique and discusses its cogency and sustainability. It also looks at how we can apply today's positivism to the problems of our post-modern world.
