Decay of International Law - A Reappraisal of Limits of Legal Imagination in International

This is a penetrating critique of the methodology of international law as it had come to be understood and accepted by the generality of international lawyers.

List of contents

New Series Editor foreword - Jean d'Aspremont and Iain Scobbie
New introduction - Anthony Carty

Foreword to original - Gillian M. White
Preface to original - Anthony Carty

1 Introduction: a crisis of method in international law
2 Legal doctrine and the development of international legal concepts
3 General customary law
4 Doctrinal conceptions of the law relating to territory
5 'Pure' theories of treaty law: a world without diplomacy
6 Legal doctrine, the principle of non-intervention and the practice of States
7 Legal method, the 'state of nature' and some contemporary issues of
self-determination

Index

About the author

Tony Carty is Professor of International Law at the School of Law at the Beijing Institute of Technology

Summary

This is a penetrating critique of the methodology of international law as it had come to be understood and accepted by the generality of international lawyers. -- .

Product details

• Authors: Anthony Carty, Tony Carty, Carty Anthony, Carty Tony Tony
• Publisher: Manchester University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.10.2019
• EAN: 9781526127914
• ISBN: 978-1-5261-2791-4
• No. of pages: 216
• Series: Melland Schill Studies in International Law; Melland Schill Studies in Inte; Melland Schill Classics in International Law; Melland Schill Classics in Int
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; LAW / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / International Relations / General, LAW / International, International Relations, International Law, government; international; law