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  • Repetition and International Law

    by Wouter Werner ...
    Series series Cambridge Studies in International and Comparative Law
    Acts of repetition abound in international law. Security Council Resolutions typically start by recalling, recollecting, recognising or reaffirming previous resolutions. Expert committees present restatements of international law. Students and staff extensively rehearse fictitious cases in presentations for moot court competitions. Customary law exists by virtue of repeated behaviour and ... Read more

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  • International Law as a Profession

    International law is not merely a set of rules or processes, but is a professional activity practised by a diversity of figures, including scholars, judges, counsel, teachers, legal advisers and activists. Individuals may, in different contexts, play more than one of these roles, and the interactions between them are illuminating of the nature of international law itself. This collection of ... Read more

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  • Risk and the Regulation of Uncertainty in International Law

    Increasingly, international legal arrangements imagine future worlds or create space for experts to articulate how the future can be conceptualized and managed. With the increased specialization of international law, a series of functional regimes and sub-regimes has emerged, each with their own imageries, vocabularies, expert-knowledge, and rules to translate our hopes and fears for the future ... Read more

    $109.79 USD

  • The Law of International Lawyers

    Reading Martti Koskenniemi

    For decades, Martti Koskenniemi has not just been an influential writer in international law; his work has caused a significant shift in the direction of the field. This book engages with some of the core questions that have animated Koskenniemi's scholarship so far. Its chapters attest to the breadth and depth of Koskenniemi's oeuvre and the different ways in which he has explored these questions ... Read more

    $43.49 USD

  • Deference in International Courts and Tribunals

    Standard of Review and Margin of Appreciation

    International courts and tribunals are often asked to review decisions originally made by domestic decision-makers. This can often be a source of tension, as the international courts and tribunals need to judge how far to defer to the original decisions of the national bodies. As international courts and tribunals have proliferated, different courts have applied differing levels of deference to ... Read more

    $119.69 USD

  • Cosmopolitanism in Context

    Perspectives from International Law and Political Theory

    Edited by Roland Pierik, Wouter Werner ...
    Is it possible and desirable to translate the basic principles underlying cosmopolitanism as a moral standard into effective global institutions. Will the ideals of inclusiveness and equal moral concern for all survive the marriage between cosmopolitanism and institutional power? What are the effects of such bureaucratisation of cosmopolitan ideals? This volume examines the strained relationship ... Read more

    $43.49 USD

  • Netherlands Yearbook of International Law 2016

    The Changing Nature of Territoriality in International Law

    Edited by Wouter Werner, Martin Kuijer ...
    Series Book 47 - Netherlands Yearbook of International Law
    International law holds a paradoxical position with territory. Most rules of international law are traditionally based on the notion of State territory, and territoriality still significantly shapes our contemporary legal system. At the same time, new developments have challenged territory as the main organising principle in international relations. Three trends in particular have affected the ... Read more

    $188.99 USD

  • Netherlands Yearbook of International Law 2012

    Legal Equality and the International Rule of Law - Essays in Honour of P.H. Kooijmans

    Series series Law and Criminology (R0)
    The Netherlands Yearbook of International Law (NYIL) was first published in 1970. It offers a forum for the publication of scholarly articles of a more general nature in the area of public international law including the law of the European Union. With this volume on ‘Legal Equality and the International Rule of Law’, the Netherlands Yearbook of International Law celebrates Pieter Kooijmans’ ... Read more

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  • The Most Human Right

    Why Free Speech Is Everything

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    A bold, groundbreaking argument by a world-renowned expert that unless we treat free speech as the fundamental human right, there can be no others.What are human rights? Are they laid out definitively in the UN’s Universal Declaration of Human Rights or the US Bill of Rights? Are they items on a checklist—dignity, justice, progress, standard of living, health care, housing? In The Most Human Right ... Read more

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  • Living in the End Times

    by Slavoj Zizek ...
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  • The Rise of the Fourth Political Theory

    The sequel to the bestseller The Fourth Political Theory, expanding further on the fourth political theory. All the political systems of the modern age have been the products of three distinct ideologies: the first, and oldest, is liberal democracy; the second is Marxism; and the third is fascism. The latter two have long since failed and passed out of the pages of history, and the first no longer ... Read more

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