International Law as a Belief System
Part of Cambridge Studies in International and Comparative Law
- Author: Jean d'Aspremont, University of Manchester
- Date Published: December 2018
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- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9781108434393
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International Law as a Belief System considers how we construct international legal discourses and the self-referentiality at the centre of all legal arguments about international law. It explores how the fundamental doctrines (such as sources, responsibility, statehood, personality, interpretation and jus cogens) constrain legal reasoning by inventing their own origin and dictating the nature of their functioning. In this innovative work, d'Aspremont argues that these processes constitute the mark of a belief system. This book invites international lawyers to temporarily suspend some of their understandings about the fundamental doctrines they adhere to in their professional activities. It aims to provide readers with new tools to reinvent the thinking about international law and combines theory and practice to offer insights that are valuable for both theorists and practitioners.
Read more- Combines theoretical debates with doctrinal questions and offers insights that are valuable for both theorists and practitioners
- Sheds light on the self-referential foundations of the main doctrines of international law
- Presents a first-time, fully articulated claim that international law works as a belief system
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- Date Published: December 2018
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9781108434393
- length: 177 pages
- dimensions: 228 x 151 x 10 mm
- weight: 0.26kg
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
1. International law as a belief system
2. The structure of the international belief system
3. Self-referentiality in the international belief system
4. Manifestations of the international belief system
5. The suspension of the international belief system
6. Epilogue.
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