Author : Britta van Beers
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 329 pages
File Size : 50,49 MB
Release : 2014-02-13
Category : Law
ISBN : 1107048184
An examination of how the concept of humanity is mobilized to make legal arguments in different areas of law.
Author : Britta van Beers
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 329 pages
File Size : 49,43 MB
Release : 2014-02-13
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 113986808X
The concepts of humanity, human dignity and mankind have emerged in different contexts across international law and biolaw. This raises many different questions. What are the aims for which 'humanity' is mobilised? How do these aims affect the ensuing interpretations of this concept? What are the negative counterparts of humanity, mankind and human dignity? And what happens if a concept developed in one particular context is taken up in another? By bringing together research from international law, biolaw and legal theory, this volume answers such questions by analysing how the concepts overlap and contradict each other across the disciplines. The result is not an examination of what humanity is but rather what it does and what it brings about in a variety of contexts.
Author : Ukri Soirila
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 16,41 MB
Release : 2021-07-15
Category : Law
ISBN : 1509938923
This book provides the first comprehensive introduction to the role of humanity in international law, offering a fresh perspective to a discussions with global implications. The 1990s and the first decade of the twenty-first century witnessed the sporadic emergence of a new vision of global law. Although the vision has taken many different forms, all instances of it have been uniform in the attempt of radically altering how we understand international law by seeking to posit the human as the primary subject of the international legal order and humanity as its main source of legitimacy. Together, this book calls these instances “the law of humanity project”. In so doing, it also paints a picture of and critically assesses a particular moment in the history of international law – a moment which may have already come to a sudden end as a consequence of the current populist backlash in world politics, but during which it seemed inevitable that the law of humanity vision would come to play an increasingly important role in world affairs.
Author : Caroline Fournet
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 411 pages
File Size : 34,29 MB
Release : 2020-11-30
Category : Law
ISBN : 9004364420
Biolaw and International Criminal Law: Towards Interdisciplinary Synergies investigates the foundational, conceptual and interdisciplinary aspects of an emerging field: International Criminal Biolaw.
Author : Ginevra Le Moli
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 433 pages
File Size : 19,78 MB
Release : 2021-11-25
Category : Law
ISBN : 1316517624
A theoretical, historical and juridical exegesis of human dignity in international law over two centuries.
Author : Amy Strecker
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 520 pages
File Size : 24,29 MB
Release : 2023-07-24
Category : Law
ISBN : 9004434011
This book brings together prominent scholars in the fields of international cultural heritage law and heritage studies to scrutinise the various branches of international law and governance dealing with heritage destruction from human rights perspectives, both in times of armed conflict as well as in peace. Importantly, it also examines cases of heritage destruction that may not be intentional, but rather the consequence of large-scale infrastructural development or resource extraction. Chapters deal with high profile cases from Europe, North Africa, The Middle East, Latin America and the Caribbean, with a substantial afterword on heritage destruction in Ukraine.
Author : Britta Van Beers
Publisher :
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 31,25 MB
Release : 2014-05-28
Category : Electronic books
ISBN : 9781139865401
An examination of how the concept of humanity is mobilized to make legal arguments in different areas of law.
Author : Rain Liivoja
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 411 pages
File Size : 42,99 MB
Release : 2014-01-10
Category : Law
ISBN : 1135116059
This book explores law-making in international affairs and is compiled to celebrate the 50th birthday of Professor Jan Klabbers, a leading international law and international relations scholar who has made significant contributions to the understanding of the sources of international legal obligations and the idea of constitutionalism in international law. Inspired by Professor Klabbers’ wide-ranging interests in international law and his interdisciplinary approach, the book examines law-making through a variety of perspectives and seeks to breaks new ground in exploring what it means to think and write about law and its creation. While examining the substance of international law, these contributors raise more general concerns, such as the relationship between law-making and the application of law, the role and conflict between various institutions, and the characteristics of the formal sources of international law. The book will be of great interest to students and academics of legal theory, international relations, and international law.
Author : Jean d’Aspremont
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 957 pages
File Size : 36,46 MB
Release :
Category : Law
ISBN : 1783474688
Concepts shape how we understand and participate in international legal affairs. They are an important site for order, struggle and change. This comprehensive and authoritative volume introduces a large number of concepts that have shaped, at various points in history, international legal practice and thought; intimates at how the many projects of international law have grappled with, and influenced, the world through certain concepts; and introduces new concepts into the discipline.
Author : Sofia Stolk
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 16,15 MB
Release : 2021-04-19
Category : Law
ISBN : 1000379027
This book addresses the discursive importance of the prosecution’s opening statement before an international criminal tribunal. Opening statements are considered to be largely irrelevant to the official legal proceedings but are simultaneously deployed to frame important historical events. They are widely cited in international media as well as academic texts; yet have been ignored by legal scholars as objects of study in their own right. This book aims to remedy this neglect, by analysing the narrative that is articulated in the opening statements of different prosecutors at different tribunals in different times. It takes an interdisciplinary approach and looks at the meaning of the opening narrative beyond its function in the legal process in a strict sense, discussing the ways in which the trial is situated in time and space and how it portrays the main characters. It shows how perpetrators and victims, places and histories, are juridified in a narrative that, whilst purporting to legitimise the trial, the tribunal and international criminal law itself, is beset with tensions and contradictions. Providing an original perspective on the operation of international criminal law, this book will be of considerable interest to those working in this area, as well as those with relevant interests in International/Transnational Law more generally, Critical Legal Studies, Law and Literature, Socio-Legal Studies, Law and Geography and International Relations.
