Non-Legality in International Law - Unruly Law

Informationen zum Autor Fleur Johns is an Associate Professor at the Sydney Law School, University of Sydney, and Co-Director of the Sydney Centre for International Law. Klappentext Shows how international lawyers make non-law (extra-legal, illegal and other non-legal phenomena) and why this matters in global politics today. Zusammenfassung As international lawyers make law! they make non-law. Understandings of extra-legality! illegality and the like help shape the limits of global political possibility. Fleur Johns explores how non-legality is crafted in areas ranging from torture to foreign investment and from climate change to disaster relief and explains why this matters. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Making non-legalities in international law; 2. Illegality and the torture memos; 3. Black holes and the outside within: extra-legality at Guantánamo; 4. Doing deals: pre- and post-legal choice in transnational financing; 5. Receiving climate change: law, science and supra-legality; 6. Death, disaster and infra-legality in international law; Conclusion.

Product details

• Authors: Fleur Johns, Fleur (University of Sydney) Johns, Johns Fleur
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 09.04.2015
• EAN: 9781107521834
• ISBN: 978-1-107-52183-4
• No. of pages: 282
• Series: Cambridge Studies in Internati; Cambridge Studies in Internati; Cambridge Studies in International and Comparative Law
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Law > International law, foreign law; Law, LAW / International, Public International Law