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This volume of essays explores the legacies of the Mexican and Russian Revolutions and the politics of turning to international law as a response to revolution. It contributes to the understanding of law as a means of addressing contemporary social, political and economic challenges.
List of contents
1. International law and revolution: 1917 and beyond Kathryn Greenman, Anne Orford, Ntina Tzouvala and Anna Saunders; Part I. Imperialism: 2. Looking eastwards: the Bolshevik theory of imperialism and international law Ntina Tzouvala and Robert Knox; 3. Lenin at Nuremberg: anti-imperialism and the juridification of crimes against humanity Amanda Alexander; Part II. Institutions and Orders: 4. Excluding revolutionary states: Mexico, Russia and the League of Nations Alison Duxbury; 5. Law, class struggle and nervous breakdowns Mai Taha; 6. Microcosm: Soviet constitutional internationality Scott Newton; 7. Law and socialist revolution: early Soviet legal theory and practice Owen Taylor; Part III. Intervention: 8. Intervention: sketches from the scenes of the Mexican and Russian Revolutions Dino Kritsiotis; 9. Mexican revolutionary constituencies and the Latin American critique of US intervention Juan Pablo Scarfi; 10. Mexican post-revolutionary foreign policy and the Spanish Civil War: legal struggles over intervention at the League of Nations Fabia Fernandes Carvalho Veçoso; Part IV. Investment: 11. 1917: property, revolution and rejection in international law Kate Miles; 12. 1917 and its implications for the law of expropriation Daria Davitti; 13. Contestations over legal authority: the Lena Goldfields Arbitration 1930 Andrea Leiter; 14. The Mexican Revolution: alien protection and international economic order Kathryn Greenman; Part V. Rights: 15. 'Animated by the European spirit': European human rights as counterrevolutionary legality Anna Saunders; 16. Human Rights, revolution and the 'good society': the Soviet Union and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights Jessica Whyte.
About the author
Kathryn Greenman is Lecturer in the Faculty of Law, University of Technology, Sydney.Anne Orford is Redmond Barry Distinguished Professor and Michael D. Kirby Chair of International Law at Melbourne Law School. Her publications include Reading Humanitarian Intervention (2003), International Authority and the Responsibility to Protect (2011), and Pensée Critique et Pratique du Droit International (2020).Anna Saunders is Frank Knox Memorial Fellow at Harvard Law School and a former Teaching Fellow at Melbourne Law School.Ntina Tzouvala is a Senior Lecturer at the College of Law, Australian National University. She is the author of Capitalism as Civilisation: A History of International Law (2020).
Summary
This volume of essays explores the legacies of the Mexican and Russian Revolutions and the politics of turning to international law as a response to revolution. It contributes to the understanding of law as a means of addressing contemporary social, political and economic challenges.
Foreword
The 1917 October Revolution and the revolutionary Mexican Constitution shook the foundations of international law. This collection revisits their legacies.
