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The Individual in International Law collects the work of esteemed scholars to examine the effects of humanisation on international law, and how individual status, rights, and obligations have changed the international legal system throughout history and into the present day.
Table des matières
- Contributors
- Acknowledgments
- 1: Anne Peters and Tom Sparks: Introduction: The History and Theory of the Individual in International Law
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- The Individual in the History of International Law
- 2: Eleanor Cowan: The Individual in International Law in Antiquity
- 3: Dante Fedele and Alain Wijffels: Individuals and Group Identity in Medieval International Law
- 4: Francesca Iurlaro: From Exemplary Individuals to Private Persons with Rights: International Law 1500-1647, Vitoria, Gentili, and Grotius
- 5: Mark Somos: From Re- to Demoralisation: The Individual in International Law, 1648-1789
- 6: Inge Van Hulle: The Individual in International Law in the Nineteenth Century, 1789-1914
- 7: Anne Peters: Before Human Rights: The Formation of the International Status of the Individual, 1914-1945
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- The Individual in the Theory of International Law
- 8: Gleider I. Hernández: Legal Positivism and the Individual in International Law
- 9: Rafael Domingo: The Individual in International Law from the Contemporary Sacred Natural Law Perspective
- 10: Tom Sparks: The Individual in Secular Natural Law Theories of International Law
- 11: B.S. Chimni: The Status of the Individual in International Law: A TWAIL Perspective
- 12: Ruth Houghton: The Individual in Feminist Approaches to International Law
- 13: Marina Veličković: A Marxist Account of the Individual in International Law
- 14: Angelo Jr. Golia: Global Law and the Individual
- 15: Başak Çalı: Global Constitutionalism and the Individual
- 16: Anne van Aaken: The Individual in (International) Law and Economics
- 17: Marie-Claire Foblets: Individual Personhood in Anthropological Approaches to International Law
- 18: Anne Peters and Tom Sparks: Conclusion: Reconsidering the Individual in International Law
- Index
A propos de l'auteur
Tom Sparks is a Senior Research Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law, where he works on international environmental law, the humanisation of international law and legal theory. He wrote his doctoral thesis at the University of Durham, entitled Towards a Human-Centred International Law: Self-Determination and the Structure of the International Legal System. The thesis won the Global Policy North network of research universities' prize for the best doctoral dissertation of 2018. He is the author of Self-Determination in the International Legal System: Whose Claim, to What Right? (Hart 2023).
Anne Peters is Director at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law Heidelberg, a professor at the universities of Heidelberg, Freie Universität Berlin, Basel, and Michigan. She has been a member of the European Commission for Democracy through Law (Venice Commission) in respect of Germany (2011-2015), served as the President of the European Society of International Law (2010-2012) and as President of the German Society of International Law (DGIR) (2019-2023). She is a member of the Permanent Court of Arbitration and an associate member of the Institut de Droit International.
Résumé
The Individual in International Law collects the work of esteemed scholars to examine the effects of humanisation on international law, and how individual status, rights, and obligations have changed the international legal system throughout history and into the present day.
