Author: Antony Anghie
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521702720
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 384
Book Description
Examines the relationship between imperialism and international law.
Imperialism, Sovereignty and the Making of International Law
Author: Antony Anghie
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521702720
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 384
Book Description
Examines the relationship between imperialism and international law.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521702720
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 384
Book Description
Examines the relationship between imperialism and international law.
International Status in the Shadow of Empire
Author: Cait Storr
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108498507
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 321
Book Description
This book offers a new account of Nauru's imperial history and examines its significance in the history of international law.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108498507
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 321
Book Description
This book offers a new account of Nauru's imperial history and examines its significance in the history of international law.
Decolonising International Law
Author: Sundhya Pahuja
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1139502069
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 319
Book Description
The universal promise of contemporary international law has long inspired countries of the Global South to use it as an important field of contestation over global inequality. Taking three central examples, Sundhya Pahuja argues that this promise has been subsumed within a universal claim for a particular way of life by the idea of 'development'. As the horizon of the promised transformation and concomitant equality has receded ever further, international law has legitimised an ever-increasing sphere of intervention in the Third World. The post-war wave of decolonisation ended in the creation of the developmental nation-state, the claim to permanent sovereignty over natural resources in the 1950s and 1960s was transformed into the protection of foreign investors, and the promotion of the rule of international law in the early 1990s has brought about the rise of the rule of law as a development strategy in the present day.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1139502069
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 319
Book Description
The universal promise of contemporary international law has long inspired countries of the Global South to use it as an important field of contestation over global inequality. Taking three central examples, Sundhya Pahuja argues that this promise has been subsumed within a universal claim for a particular way of life by the idea of 'development'. As the horizon of the promised transformation and concomitant equality has receded ever further, international law has legitimised an ever-increasing sphere of intervention in the Third World. The post-war wave of decolonisation ended in the creation of the developmental nation-state, the claim to permanent sovereignty over natural resources in the 1950s and 1960s was transformed into the protection of foreign investors, and the promotion of the rule of international law in the early 1990s has brought about the rise of the rule of law as a development strategy in the present day.
Legal Imperialism
Author: Turan Kayaoğlu
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521765919
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 247
Book Description
Legal Imperialism examines the important role of nineteenth-century Western extraterritorial courts in non-Western states. These courts, created as a separate legal system for Western expatriates living in Asian and Islamic coutries, developed from the British imperial model, which was founded on ideals of legal positivism. Based on a cross-cultural comparison of the emergence, function, and abolition of these court systems in Japan, the Ottoman Empire, and China, Turan Kayaoglu elaborates a theory of extraterritoriality, comparing the nineteenth-century British example with the post-World War II American legal imperialism. He also provides an explanation for the end of imperial extraterritoriality, arguing that the Western decision to abolish their separate legal systems stemmed from changes in non-Western territories, including Meiji legal reforms, Republican Turkey's legal transformation under Ataturk, and the Guomindang's legal reorganization in China. Ultimately, his research provides an innovative basis for understanding the assertion of legal authority by Western powers on foreign soil and the influence of such assertion on ideas about sovereignty.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521765919
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 247
Book Description
Legal Imperialism examines the important role of nineteenth-century Western extraterritorial courts in non-Western states. These courts, created as a separate legal system for Western expatriates living in Asian and Islamic coutries, developed from the British imperial model, which was founded on ideals of legal positivism. Based on a cross-cultural comparison of the emergence, function, and abolition of these court systems in Japan, the Ottoman Empire, and China, Turan Kayaoglu elaborates a theory of extraterritoriality, comparing the nineteenth-century British example with the post-World War II American legal imperialism. He also provides an explanation for the end of imperial extraterritoriality, arguing that the Western decision to abolish their separate legal systems stemmed from changes in non-Western territories, including Meiji legal reforms, Republican Turkey's legal transformation under Ataturk, and the Guomindang's legal reorganization in China. Ultimately, his research provides an innovative basis for understanding the assertion of legal authority by Western powers on foreign soil and the influence of such assertion on ideas about sovereignty.
Empire, Emergency and International Law
Author: John Reynolds
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107172519
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 343
Book Description
This book analyses the states of emergency exposing the intersections between colonial law, international law, imperialism and racial discrimination.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107172519
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 343
Book Description
This book analyses the states of emergency exposing the intersections between colonial law, international law, imperialism and racial discrimination.
Outlawed Pigs
Author: Daphne Barak-Erez
Publisher: Univ of Wisconsin Press
ISBN: 0299221636
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 200
Book Description
The prohibition against pigs is one of the most powerful symbols of Jewish culture and collective memory. Outlawed Pigs explores how the historical sensitivity of Jews to the pig prohibition was incorporated into Israeli law and culture. Daphne Barak-Erez specifically traces the course of two laws, one that authorized municipalities to ban the possession and trading in pork within their jurisdiction and another law that forbids pig breeding throughout Israel, except for areas populated mainly by Christians. Her analysis offers a comprehensive, decade-by-decade discussion of the overall relationship between law and culture since the inception of the Israeli nation-state. By examining ever-fluctuating Israeli popular opinion on Israel's two laws outlawing the trade and possession of pigs, Barak-Erez finds an interesting and accessible way to explore the complex interplay of law, religion, and culture in modern Israel, and more specifically a microcosm for the larger question of which lies more at the foundation of Israeli state law: religion or cultural tradition.
Publisher: Univ of Wisconsin Press
ISBN: 0299221636
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 200
Book Description
The prohibition against pigs is one of the most powerful symbols of Jewish culture and collective memory. Outlawed Pigs explores how the historical sensitivity of Jews to the pig prohibition was incorporated into Israeli law and culture. Daphne Barak-Erez specifically traces the course of two laws, one that authorized municipalities to ban the possession and trading in pork within their jurisdiction and another law that forbids pig breeding throughout Israel, except for areas populated mainly by Christians. Her analysis offers a comprehensive, decade-by-decade discussion of the overall relationship between law and culture since the inception of the Israeli nation-state. By examining ever-fluctuating Israeli popular opinion on Israel's two laws outlawing the trade and possession of pigs, Barak-Erez finds an interesting and accessible way to explore the complex interplay of law, religion, and culture in modern Israel, and more specifically a microcosm for the larger question of which lies more at the foundation of Israeli state law: religion or cultural tradition.
Capitalism As Civilisation
Author: Ntina Tzouvala
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108497187
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 277
Book Description
Using the theoretical tools drawn from historical materialism and deconstruction, Tzouvala offers a comprehensive history of the standard of civilisation.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108497187
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 277
Book Description
Using the theoretical tools drawn from historical materialism and deconstruction, Tzouvala offers a comprehensive history of the standard of civilisation.
International Law and the Politics of History
Author: Anne Orford
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108480942
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 395
Book Description
Explores the ideological, political, and economic stakes of struggles over international law's history and its relation to empire and capitalism.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108480942
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 395
Book Description
Explores the ideological, political, and economic stakes of struggles over international law's history and its relation to empire and capitalism.
The Origins of International Investment Law
Author: Kate Miles
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107039398
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 499
Book Description
An examination of the origins of international investment law and their continued resonance in the twenty-first century.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107039398
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 499
Book Description
An examination of the origins of international investment law and their continued resonance in the twenty-first century.
Brierly's Law of Nations
Author: Andrew Clapham
Publisher: OUP Oxford
ISBN: 0191632678
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 433
Book Description
This concise book is an introduction to the role of international law in international relations. Written for lawyers and non-lawyers alike, the book first appeared in 1928 and attracted a wide readership. This new edition builds on Brierly's scholarship and his idea that law must serve a social purpose. Previous editions of The Law of Nations have been the standard introduction to international law for decades, and are widely popular in many different countries due to the simplicity and brevity of the prose style. Providing a comprehensive overview of international law, this new version of the classic book retains the original qualities and is again essential reading for all those interested in learning what role the law plays in international affairs. The reader will find chapters on traditional and contemporary topics such as: the basis of international obligation, the role of the UN and the International Criminal Court, the emergence of new states, the acquisition of territory, the principles covering national jurisdiction and immunities, the law of treaties, the different ways of settling international disputes, and the rules on resort to force and the prohibition of aggression.
Publisher: OUP Oxford
ISBN: 0191632678
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 433
Book Description
This concise book is an introduction to the role of international law in international relations. Written for lawyers and non-lawyers alike, the book first appeared in 1928 and attracted a wide readership. This new edition builds on Brierly's scholarship and his idea that law must serve a social purpose. Previous editions of The Law of Nations have been the standard introduction to international law for decades, and are widely popular in many different countries due to the simplicity and brevity of the prose style. Providing a comprehensive overview of international law, this new version of the classic book retains the original qualities and is again essential reading for all those interested in learning what role the law plays in international affairs. The reader will find chapters on traditional and contemporary topics such as: the basis of international obligation, the role of the UN and the International Criminal Court, the emergence of new states, the acquisition of territory, the principles covering national jurisdiction and immunities, the law of treaties, the different ways of settling international disputes, and the rules on resort to force and the prohibition of aggression.