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Law at the Vanishing Point: A Philosophical Analysis of International Law [Kietas viršelis]

  • Formatas: Hardback, 244 pages, aukštis x plotis: 234x156 mm, weight: 453 g
  • Serija: Applied Legal Philosophy
  • Išleidimo metai: 28-May-2008
  • Leidėjas: Routledge
  • ISBN-10: 0754672514
  • ISBN-13: 9780754672517
Kitos knygos pagal šią temą:
  • Formatas: Hardback, 244 pages, aukštis x plotis: 234x156 mm, weight: 453 g
  • Serija: Applied Legal Philosophy
  • Išleidimo metai: 28-May-2008
  • Leidėjas: Routledge
  • ISBN-10: 0754672514
  • ISBN-13: 9780754672517
Kitos knygos pagal šią temą:
Two central questions are at the core of international legal theory: 'What is international law?', and 'Is international law really law?' This volume examines these critical questions and the philosophical foundations of modern international law using the tools of Anglo-American legal theory and western political thought. Engaging with both contemporary and historical legal theory and with an analysis of international law in action, the book builds an understanding and theory of law from the perspective of those who actually use this legal system and understand it, rather than constructing an artificial system from the standpoint of political scientists and moral philosophers. Law at the Vanishing Point provides a fascinating new challenge to those who reduce international law either to ethics or to politics and provides a critical new appraisal of its power as an independent force in human social relations.

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'Those who are skeptical about the existence and power of international law should read Fichtelbergs book. Arguing more from various examples of international law, rather than from abstract and questionable principles, he will convince many of these skeptics to abandon their cause. Believers will also profit by reading his book. They will come away with a better understanding of their own views on international law.' Nick Fotion, Emory University, Atlanta, USA 'For forty odd years I have made a living teaching, writing about and sometimes even doing international law. Yet I have been consistently haunted and taunted by those who deny that the subject is "real". Fichtelberg slays all the dragons that I have encountered in a lifetime - and then some. Spot on!' Roger S. Clark, Rutgers School of Law, USA '...[ this book] offers both a good overview and a strong argument as to why we should spend less time focusing on theory and more examining the law as it should be...a valuable addition to the literature.' Law Society Journal 'Recommended. Upper-division undergraduate through professional collections. CHOICE

Series Editor' Preface vii
Intordcution: The Futre and Legal Theory ix
Acknowledgments xv
Skepticism Toward Internationsl Law
1(28)
Definitional-Semantics (Austinian Positivism)
2(6)
Realism: Descriptive and Prescirptive
8(11)
The Illusion of International Law: Critical Legal Studies and the ``New Stream''
19(4)
Koskenniemo's Critique
23(3)
Conclusion
26(3)
Conceptualizing International Law
29(20)
The Ontology of Social Objects: Beginningh to Answer the New Stream
31(7)
Definitions and Sources
38(3)
The Non-Reductionist Definition of International Law
41(3)
Descriptions, Prescriptions, and Perdictions
44(5)
Voluntrisma and Natural Law
49(22)
Descriptions and Functions in Internatiolal Law
49(7)
The Sovereighty Thesis
56(3)
Narkin on Intrenational Law as a Practice
59(5)
Natural Law and the Mataphysices of Difinition
64(6)
Towards Jurisprudece
70(1)
Internatiol Legal Personality
71(24)
Terminology
72(2)
International Legal Personality
74(1)
The State
75(5)
Intergovernmental Organizations
80(7)
Individuals
87(4)
The Future of International Legal Personaliyt
91(1)
Conclusion
92(3)
Humanitarian Intervention
95(28)
The Question of Motive
98(4)
The UN Charter
102(2)
Sovereigntya and Self-Defense: ARticle 51
104(5)
Paace and Security: The Security Concil's
Chapter VII Power
109(5)
Human Rithts and Intervetion: Article 1 (3)
114(4)
Conclusion
118(5)
Empiricism and the Reality of International Law
123(22)
Explanations
128(4)
Explanations and the The Efficary of Legal Norms
132(3)
Failure of Law
135(6)
Is There the ``Rule of Law'' in International Relations?
141(1)
Conclusion
142(3)
Pinochet and Nicaragua
145(28)
The Pinochet Affair
161(9)
Conclusion
170(3)
The Prescriptive Realists
173(34)
The Prudential Diploment
175(11)
Relativism
186(10)
Republiscanism
196(6)
Conclusion
202(3)
Conclusion
205(2)
Bibliography 207(16)
Index 223
Professor Fichtelberg specializes in International Criminal Justice, Comparative Criminal Justice, and Legal Theory, in the Department of Sociology and Criminal Justice, University of Delaware. He has published widely on aspects of International Criminal Law, and International Criminal Justice. He is the author of the textbook `Crimes Without Borders: An Introduction to International Criminal Justice'.