| Author | : Valentin Jeutner |
| Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
| Total Pages | : 209 |
| Release | : 2017 |
| Genre | : Law |
| ISBN | : 0198808372 |
Many are familiar with the concept of a moral dilemma - a situation where a person faces a choice between two mutually exclusive actions. This book considers whether situations of this kind could and should exist within the sphere of international law.
| Author | : Valentin Jeutner |
| Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
| Total Pages | : 224 |
| Release | : 2017-08-04 |
| Genre | : Law |
| ISBN | : 0192536052 |
Conventionally, international legal scholarship concerned with norm conflicts focuses on identifying how international law can or should resolve them. This book adopts a different approach. It focuses on identifying those norm conflicts that law cannot and should not resolve. The book offers an unprecedented, controversial, yet sophisticated, argument in favour of construing such irresolvable conflicts as legal dilemmas. Legal dilemmas exist when a legal actor confronts a conflict between at least two legal norms that cannot be avoided or resolved. Addressing both academics and practitioners, the book aims to identify the character and consequences of legal dilemmas, to distil their legal function within the sphere of international law, and to encourage serious theoretical and practical investigation into the conditions that lead to a legal dilemma. The first part proposes a definition of legal dilemmas and distinguishes the term from numerous related concepts. Based on this definition, the second part scrutinises international law's contemporary norm conflict resolution and accommodation devices in order to identify their limited ability to resolve certain kinds of norm conflicts. Against the background of the limits identified in the second part, the third part outlines and evaluates the book's proposed method of dealing with legal dilemmas. In contrast to conventional approaches that recommend dealing with irresolvable norm conflicts by means of non liquet declarations, judicial law-making, or a balancing test, the book's proposal envisions that irresolvable norm conflicts are dealt with by judicial and sovereign actors in a complementary fashion. Judicial actors should openly acknowledge irresolvable conflicts and sovereign actors should decide with which norm they will comply. The book concludes with the argument that analysing various aspects of international law through the concept of a legal dilemma enhances its conceptual accuracy, facilitates more legitimate decision-making, and maintains its dynamic responsiveness.
| Author | : Noam Lubell |
| Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
| Total Pages | : 311 |
| Release | : 2010-05-27 |
| Genre | : Law |
| ISBN | : 0199584842 |
This book examines the legality of the use of force by states against individuals and non-state groups located beyond its borders, in light of applicable international law. The issues discussed include force used in the 'war on terror', pre-emptive self defence, and targeted killings of individuals.
| Author | : Miodrag A. Jovanović |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 287 |
| Release | : 2019-04-25 |
| Genre | : Law |
| ISBN | : 1108473334 |
The Nature of International Law provides a comprehensive analytical account of international law within the prototype theory of concepts.
| Author | : Jean d’Aspremont |
| Publisher | : Edward Elgar Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 957 |
| Release | : |
| Genre | : Law |
| ISBN | : 1783474688 |
Concepts shape how we understand and participate in international legal affairs. They are an important site for order, struggle and change. This comprehensive and authoritative volume introduces a large number of concepts that have shaped, at various points in history, international legal practice and thought; intimates at how the many projects of international law have grappled with, and influenced, the world through certain concepts; and introduces new concepts into the discipline.
| Author | : Daniel H. Joyner |
| Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
| Total Pages | : 402 |
| Release | : 2009-03-05 |
| Genre | : Law |
| ISBN | : 0191548189 |
Proliferation of WMD technologies is by no means a new concern for the international community. Indeed, since the signing of the Nuclear Non-proliferation Treaty in 1968, tremendous energies have been expended upon diplomatic efforts to create a web of treaties and international organisations regulating the production and stockpiling of WMD sensitive materials within states, as well as their spread through the increasingly globalised channels of international trade to other states and non-state actors. However, the intervention in 2003 by Western powers in Iraq has served as an illustration of the importance of greater understanding of and attention to this area of law, as disagreements over its content and application have once again lead to a potentially destabilising armed intervention by members of the United Nations into the sovereign territory of another member state. Other ongoing disputes between states regarding the character of obligations assumed under non-proliferation treaty instruments, and the effect of international organisations' decisions in this area, form some of the most contentious and potentially destabilising issues of foreign policy concern for many states. This book provides a comprehensive analysis of international law and organisations in the area of WMD proliferation. It will serve both as a reference for understanding the law as it currently exists in its political and economic context, as well as an analysis of areas in which amendments to existing law and organisations are needed.
| Author | : Cezary Mik |
| Publisher | : Taylor & Francis |
| Total Pages | : 622 |
| Release | : 2024-05-07 |
| Genre | : Law |
| ISBN | : 1040020909 |
Examining the fulfilment of international obligations by subjects of this law, this book explores the normative and functional links between the sources and rules of international law on the one hand, and the responsibility for violating international law on the other. In the sphere of law-making, the theory of obligations allows for a more precise and considered formulation of international obligations. It has the potential to enable subjects of international law to behave more rationally, allowing deeper reflection on whether to take on obligations and how to properly perform them. This book proposes a new approach to the issue of the proper operation of international law, with the theory of obligations at its heart. Linking the institutions and concepts of international law into a rational whole, the book offers an analysis of the operation of international law and the behaviour of its subjects to develop a framework for ensuring the ultimate effectiveness of international law. Analysing sources of law including treaties and common law, alongside the resolutions of international organisations, this book demonstrates the practical application of the subject with reference to the jurisprudence of international courts and other bodies. The volume will be of interest to scholars, students, and practitioners concerned with international law – its creation, performance, application, compliance, and enforcement.
| Author | : Tobias Ackermann |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 401 |
| Release | : 2022-08-25 |
| Genre | : Law |
| ISBN | : 1009207830 |
The book explores the effects of armed conflict and international humanitarian law on the interpretation and application of investment treaties.
| Author | : Paul Gragl |
| Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
| Total Pages | : 417 |
| Release | : 2018 |
| Genre | : Law |
| ISBN | : 0198796269 |
In this first full-length study of legal monism, Paul Gragl advocates for the revival of legal monism as a solution to normative conflicts between different bodies of law. Using comprehensive and inter-disciplinary arguments, this book defends the theory against dualism and pluralism.
