Paul Groarke

Dividing the State

Legitimacy, Secession and the Doctrine of Oppression

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

The events of recent history affirm the urgent need for a satisfactory definition of the conditions under which a minority within a state has the legal right to secede. Although the concept of sovereignty has been progressively weakened, it still presents the major theoretical difficulty in this area. There is currently no source of international law that would give a legal body like a court the authority to recognize the division of an oppressive or illegitimate state into separate legal entities. This book accordingly argues for a global system of justice based on a domestic model of compulsory law. It considers some of the technical, procedural and evidentiary issues that would arise in instituting such a regime, and develops the conceptual framework essential for the provision of legal remedies for gross violations of our fundamental human rights.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 222
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. Januar 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 12mm
• Gewicht: 345g
• ISBN-13: 9781138619456
• ISBN-10: 1138619450
• Artikelnr.: 56928866

Autorenporträt

Paul Groarke

Inhaltsangabe

Contents: Introduction
Legitimacy
The legal concept of legitimacy
The historical problem of sovereignty
Solving the historical problem
Existing theories of secession
Institutional and legal issues
Philosophical framework
A legal theory of secession
Practice issues
Conclusion: institutional reform
Select Bibliography
Index.