Description
| Product ID: | 9781108703628 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Title: | International Law and the Politics of History |
| Authors: | Author: Anne Orford |
| Page Count: | 280 |
| Subjects: | General and world history, General & world history, International relations, Legal history, Public international law: international organizations and institutions, International relations, Legal history, International organisations & institutions |
| Description: | As the future of international law has become a growing site of political struggle within and between powerful states, debates over the history of international law have become increasingly heated. Anne Orford explores the political stakes of these debates over international law's past and its relation to empire and capitalism. As the future of international law has become a growing site of struggle within and between powerful states, debates over the history of international law have become increasingly heated. International Law and the Politics of History explores the ideological, political, and material stakes of apparently technical disputes over how the legal past should be studied and understood. Drawing on a deep knowledge of the history, theory, and practice of international law, Anne Orford argues that there can be no impartial accounts of international law''s past and its relation to empire and capitalism. Rather than looking to history in a doomed attempt to find a new ground for formalist interpretations of what past legal texts really mean or what international regimes are really for, she urges lawyers and historians to embrace the creative role they play in making rather than finding the meaning of international law. |
| Imprint Name: | Cambridge University Press |
| Publisher Name: | Cambridge University Press |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2021-08-05 |
