John Reynolds

Empire, Emergency and International Law

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Produktbeschreibung

This book analyses the states of emergency exposing the intersections between colonial law, international law, imperialism and racial discrimination.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 341
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. Dezember 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 458g
• ISBN-13: 9781316623886
• ISBN-10: 1316623882
• Artikelnr.: 53778550

Autorenporträt

John Reynolds is a Lecturer in International Law at the National University of Ireland, Maynooth. His work focuses on the operation of law in contexts of conflict, crisis and coloniality. He teaches and writes on international law, social justice and critical legal theory with particular emphasis on race, imperialism and global North/South dynamics.

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword
Prologue
Part I. Traditions of the Oppressed: 1. Emergency, colonialism and third world approaches to international law
2. Racialisation and states of emergency
3. Emergency doctrine: a colonial account
Part II. Empire's Law: 4. Emergency derogations and the international human rights project
5. Kenya: a 'purely political' state of emergency
6. The margin of appreciation doctrine: colonial origins
Part III. The Colonial Present: 7. Palestine: a 'scattered, shattered space of exception'?
8. Australia: racialised emergency intervention
9. International law, resistance and 'real' states of emergency
Bibliography.