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Since the Second World War there has been a remarkable expansion of international legal institutions. At the same time, however, international law is challenged by states fearing the loss of their political room for manoeuvre. This book explores how states are responding by developing a new politics of international law.
List of contents
1. Introduction: the changing practices of international law Thomas Gammeltoft-Hansen and Tanja Aalberts; 2. Sovereignty games, law and politics in world society Tanja Aalberts and Thomas Gammeltoft-Hansen; 3. Abandonment, construction and denial: the formation of a zone Margareta Brummer; 4. Backlash and state strategies in international investment law Malcolm Langford, Daniel Behn and Ole Kristian Fauchald; 5. 'Part of the game': government strategies against European litigation concerning migrant rights Moritz Baumgärtel; 6. The disaggregated law of global mass surveillance Itamar Mann; 7. Legalisation in international environmental law Jaye Ellis; 8. Search and rescue as a geopolitics of international law Thomas Gammeltoft-Hansen and Tanja Aalberts; 9. Conclusion: the dark side of legalisation Tanja Aalberts and Thomas Gammeltoft-Hansen.
About the author
Tanja Aalberts is Professor of Law at Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam and Director of the Centre for the Politics of Transnational Law (www.ceptl.org). She has a Ph.D. in International Relations and her research focuses on the interplay between international law and international politics in practices of governance.Thomas Gammeltoft-Hansen is Research Director at the Raoul Wallenberg Institute of Human Rights and Humanitarian Law and Honorary Professor of Law at Aarhus Universitet, Denmark. He received his Ph.D. in international law from Aarhus University, M.Sc. in refugee studies from the University of Oxford and M.A. in political science from the University of Copenhagen.
Summary
Since the Second World War there has been a remarkable expansion of international legal institutions. At the same time, however, international law is challenged by states fearing the loss of their political room for manoeuvre. This book explores how states are responding by developing a new politics of international law.
