The Power of Legality
Practices of International Law and their Politics
Published on 13. December 2018
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Paperback/Softback
406 pages
978-1-316-50843-5 (ISBN)
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From an airstrip in Saudi Arabia, the CIA launches drones to 'legally' kill Al-Qaida leaders in Yemen. On the North Pole, Russia plants a flag on the seabed to extend legal claim over resources. In Brussels, the European Commission unveils its Emissions Trading System, extending environmental jurisdiction globally over foreign airlines. And at Frankfurt Airport, a father returning from holiday is detained because his name appears on a security list. Today, legality commands substantial currency in world affairs, yet growing reference to international legality has not marked the end of strategic struggles in global affairs. Rather, it has shifted the field and manner of play for a plurality of actors who now use, influence and contest the way that law's rule is applied to address global problems. Drawing on a range of case studies, this volume explores the various meanings and implications of legality across scholarly, institutional and policy settings.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Cambridge
United Kingdom
Target group
Professional and scholarly
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Paperback (trade)
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Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Thickness: 22 mm
Weight
589 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-316-50843-5 (9781316508435)
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Nikolas M. Rajkovic | Tanja E. Aalberts | Thomas Gammeltoft-Hansen
The Power of Legality
Practices of International Law and their Politics
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Persons
Nikolas M. Rajkovic is Professor and Chair of International Law at Universiteit van Tilburg, The Netherlands. He is also an Adjunct Professor in International Law and International Relations at Kyung Hee University, South Korea, and a faculty member of the Harvard Law School's Institute for Global Law and Policy (IGLP). Tanja Aalberts is a Senior Researcher at the Department of Transnational Legal Studies, Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam and co-director of the Centre for the Politics of Transnational Law. Thomas Gammeltoft-Hansen is Research Director at the Raoul Wallenberg Institute of Human Rights and Humanitarian Law at the University of Lund and Executive Chairman of the Association of Human Rights Institutes (AHRI).
Content
Table of figures; Foreword Martti Koskenniemi; Acknowledgements; 1. Introduction: legality, interdisciplinarity, and the study of practices Nikolas M. Rajkovic, Tanja E. Aalberts and Thomas Gammeltoft-Hansen; Part I. Scholarly Struggles over Legality: 2. Re-thinking inter-disciplinarity by re-reading Hume Friedrich Kratochwil; 3. Tainted love: the struggle over legality in international relations and international law Anna Leander and Wouter Werner; 4. The power of legality, legitimacy and the (im)possibility of interdisciplinary research Filipe dos Reis and Oliver Kessler; 5. Moving while standing still: law, politics and hard cases Ciaran Burke; Part II. Legality and Institutional Practices: 6. International law, Kelsen and the aberrant revolution: excavating the politics and practices of revolutionary legality in Rhodesia and beyond Vidya Kumar; 7. Juris Dicere: custom as a matrix, custom as a norm, the role of judges and (their) ideology in custom making Vassilis P. Tzevelekos; 8. Multiple legalities and international criminal tribunals: juridical versus political legality Bas Schotel; 9. Palestine's quest for statehood and the practice of the United Nations Cathleen H. Powell and Jonathan Strug; Part III. Legality and Policy Practices: 10. Regulatory legality: extraterritorial rule across domestic and international arenas Michael L. Buenger; 11. Legality and lawfare in regime implementation Surabhi Ranganathan; 12. Whose legality? Rule of law missions and the case of Kosovo Maj Grasten; Epilogue: re-thinking legality and practices of interdisciplinarity; 13. Perspectives on the perils, promise, politics - and practice - of interdisciplinarity Jeffrey L. Dunoff.