Book Details
Orange Code:91349
Paperback:264 pages
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1. Introduction: International Law and Its Histories2. International Law and Its History: The Story of an Unrequited Love3. Foreign Office International Legal History4. English Approaches to International Law in the Nineteenth Century5. A Case Study on Jurisprudence as a Source of International Law: Oppenheim’s Influence6. Time, History, and Sources of Law Peremptory Norms: Is There a Need for New Sources of International Law?7. Reluctant Grundnormen: Articles 31(3)(C) and 42 of the Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties and the Fragmentation of International Law8. The Time of Conclusion and the Time of Application of Treaties as Points of Reference in the Interpretative Process9. Piracy and The Origins of Enmity10. Distance and Contemporaneity in Exploring the Practice of States: The British Archives in Relation to the 1957 Oman and Muscat Incident
Description:
This book gives an insight into the frequently asked question on the relationship between international law, time and history, approaching the issue from a legal and philosophical point of view. Broadly speaking, it is possible to identify at least three different ways in which the above relationship may be conceived. The first is that of a history of international law, mapped out in terms of its trajectory, written in narrative form that provides a story about its origins, development, progress or renewal; the second is that of history in international law and of the role history plays in arguments about law itself; the third way in which that relationship may be understood is in terms of international law in history, of understanding how international law has been engaged in the creation of a history that in some senses stands outside the history of international law itself. Each type of engagement with history and international law will interweave various different types of historical narrative, pointing to the typically multi-layered nature of international lawyers' engagement with the past and its importance in shaping the present and future of international law.
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