The power of legality : practices of international law and their politics /

Rajkovic, Nikolas et al

The power of legality : practices of international law and their politics / edited by Nikolas M. Rajkovic, Tanja E. Aalberts, and Thomas Gammeltoft-Hansen. - First paperback edition - xx, 386 pages ; 23 cm

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Legality, interdisciplinarity and the study of practice -- Re-thinkinking interdisciplinarity by re-reading hume -- Tainted love : the struggle over legality in international relations and international law -- The power of legality, legitimacy and the (im)possibility of interdisciplinary research -- Moving while standing still : law, politics and hard cases -- International law, Kelsen and the aberrant revolution : excavating the politics and practices of revolutionary legality in Rhodesia and beyond -- Juris dicere : custom as a matrix, custom as a norm, and the role of judges and (their) ideology in custom making -- Multiple legalities and international criminal tribunals : juridical versus political legality -- Palestine's quest for statehood and the practice of the United Nations -- Regulatory legality : extraterritorial rule across domestic and international arenas -- Legality and lawfare in regime implementation -- Whose legality? Rule of law missions and the case of Kosovo -- Perspectives on the perils, promise, politics - and practice of interdisciplinarity.

9781107145054 (hardback) 9781316508435 (paperback)

2015050681


International law.
Rule of law.
Law--Philosophy.
Effectiveness and validity of law.

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