Contingency in International Law - On the Possibility of Different Legal Histories (Hardcover)

This book poses a question that is deceptive in its simplicity: could international law have been otherwise? Today, there is hardly a serious account left that would consider the path of international law to be necessary, and that would refute the possibility of a different law altogether. But behind every possibility of the past stands a reason why the law developed as it did. Only with a keen sense of why things turned out the way they did is it possible to argue about how the law could plausibly have turned out differently. The search for contingency in international law is often motivated, as it is in this volume, by a refusal to resign to the present state of affairs. By recovering past possibilities, this volume aims to inform projects of transformative legal change for the future. The book situates that search for contingency theoretically and carries it into practice across many fields, with chapters discussing human rights and armed conflict, migrants and refugees, the sea and natural resources, foreign investments and trade. In doing so, it shows how politically charged questions about contingency have always been.

General

Imprint:	Oxford UniversityPress
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	April 2021
Editors:	Ingo Venzke (Professor of International Law and Social Justice at the University of Amsterdam, and Director) • Kevin Jon Heller (Professor of International Law and Security at the University of Copenhagen, and Professor of Law)
Dimensions:	254 x 276 x 36mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	576
ISBN-13:	978-0-19-289803-6
Categories:	Books > Law > Jurisprudence & general issues > Legal history Books > Law > International law > Public international law > General Books > Social sciences > Politics & government > International relations > International institutions > General Promotions
LSN:	0-19-289803-5
Barcode:	9780192898036

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