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Legality today commands substantial currency in world affairs, and this volume examines the struggle over its meaning in diverse practices.
List of contents
Table of figures; Foreword Martti Koskenniemi; Acknowledgements; 1. Introduction: legality, interdisciplinarity, and the study of practices Nikolas M. Rajkovic, Tanja E. Aalberts and Thomas Gammeltoft-Hansen; Part I. Scholarly Struggles over Legality: 2. Re-thinking inter-disciplinarity by re-reading Hume Friedrich Kratochwil; 3. Tainted love: the struggle over legality in international relations and international law Anna Leander and Wouter Werner; 4. The power of legality, legitimacy and the (im)possibility of interdisciplinary research Filipe dos Reis and Oliver Kessler; 5. Moving while standing still: law, politics and hard cases Ciaran Burke; Part II. Legality and Institutional Practices: 6. International law, Kelsen and the aberrant revolution: excavating the politics and practices of revolutionary legality in Rhodesia and beyond Vidya Kumar; 7. Juris Dicere: custom as a matrix, custom as a norm, the role of judges and (their) ideology in custom making Vassilis P. Tzevelekos; 8. Multiple legalities and international criminal tribunals: juridical versus political legality Bas Schotel; 9. Palestine's quest for statehood and the practice of the United Nations Cathleen H. Powell and Jonathan Strug; Part III. Legality and Policy Practices: 10. Regulatory legality: extraterritorial rule across domestic and international arenas Michael L. Buenger; 11. Legality and lawfare in regime implementation Surabhi Ranganathan; 12. Whose legality? Rule of law missions and the case of Kosovo Maj Grasten; Epilogue: re-thinking legality and practices of interdisciplinarity; 13. Perspectives on the perils, promise, politics - and practice - of interdisciplinarity Jeffrey L. Dunoff.
About the author
Nikolas M. Rajkovic is Professor and Chair of International Law at Universiteit van Tilburg, The Netherlands. He is also an Adjunct Professor in International Law and International Relations at Kyung Hee University, South Korea, and a faculty member of the Harvard Law School's Institute for Global Law and Policy (IGLP).Tanja E. Aalberts is a Senior Researcher at the Department of Transnational Legal Studies, Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam and co-director of the Centre for the Politics of Transnational Law.Thomas Gammeltoft-Hansen is Research Director at the Raoul Wallenberg Institute of Human Rights and Humanitarian Law at the University of Lund and Executive Chairman of the Association of Human Rights Institutes (AHRI).
Summary
This volume presents a new and heterodox framework for cross-disciplinary research between international law and international relations. It provides a critical appraisal of their interdisciplinarity to date and provides a useful overview of recent contributions and debates regarding the possibility of combined international law and international relations research.
