Talking International Law (eBook, PDF)

Legal Argumentation Outside the Courtroom
Redaktion: Johnstone, Ian; Ratner, Steven

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Produktbeschreibung

Examining legal argumentation by states and other actors in the settings where it mostly transpires - outside of courts, Talking International Law challenges the realist assumption that legal argumentation is largely inconsequential. Addressing a gap in scholarship within international law and international relations theory, this book provides a comprehensive analysis of why it occurs, how, where, and to what effect by exploring the phenomenon in a range of issue areas, from security and human rights, to the environment, trade, and intellectual property. Diplomats and other governmental actors are the principal participants in international legal discourse, but intergovernmental officials, non-governmental organizations, academics, corporations, and even non-state armed groups also engage in "law talk." Through close examination of legal arguments in political and other settings, the authors uncover various motives these actors have for making legal claims - including persuasion, strategic calculations, assertions of identity, and the felt need to legitimate one's actions - or to delegitimate those of an adversary. Legal argumentation can have short-term and long-term effects, both intended and unintended, on immediate participants or a wider net of actors. By bringing together distinguished scholars with diverse perspectives and senior practitioners from around the world who engage in such argumentation themselves, the book offers a unique exposure to the multi-faceted practice of legal argumentation and thereby deepens our understanding of how international law actually operates in international affairs.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. September 2021
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780197588444
• Artikelnr.: 62577576

Autorenporträt

Ian Johnstone is Professor of International Law at The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University. He has served as Dean ad interim and as Academic Dean of the School. Prior to joining Fletcher in 2000, Johnstone served in the United Nations' Office of the Secretary-General. He has held Visiting Professor positions at the University of Toronto Faculty of Law and Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy, and at New York University School of Law. He has served on the editorial boards of Global Governance and International Organizations Law Review. Steven R. Ratner is the Bruno Simma Collegiate Professor of Law at the University of Michigan Law School and the Director of the University of Michigan Donia Human Rights Center. His research addresses a range of issues in international law, including linkages with political philosophy and international relations theory. He has served in U.S. State Department's Office of the Legal Adviser, on expert panels of the UN Secretary-General addressing atrocities in Sri Lanka and Cambodia, in the legal division of the International Committee of the Red Cross, and on the State Department's Advisory Committee on International Law.

Inhaltsangabe

* Chapter 1. Introduction by Ian Johnstone and Steven Ratner
* Chapter 2. Why Use the Language of the Law in Global Politics? On the
Legitimacy Effects of Claiming to Act Legally by Ingo Venzke
* Chapter 3. Arguing about the Jus ad Bellum by Monica Hakimi
* Chapter 4. International Law as Process: Argumentation in the United
Nations Security Council by Scott P. Sheeran
* Chapter 5. Protesting the Preamble: Normative Pronouncements and
Feminist Jurisprudence in the Security Council by Gina Heathcote
* Chapter 6. Persuasion About/Without International Law: The Case of
Cybersecurity Norms by Steven R. Ratner
* Chapter 7. Nuclear Non-Proliferation Law: Why Argue and to What
Effect? by Ian Johnstone
* Chapter 8. Mass Atrocity Crimes and Human Rights Discourse at the
United Nations Security Council: Three Case Studies by Bruno
Stagno-Ugarte
* Chapter 9. Non-State Armed Actors and International Legal
Argumentation: Patterns, Processes, and Putative Effects by Hyeran Jo
* Chapter 10. Argumentation Through Law: An Analysis of Decisions of
the African Union by Wouter Werner
* Chapter 11. The Sanctions Regime of the African Union in the Case of
Unconstitutional Change of Government by Namira Negm
* Chapter 12. Legal Argumentation in the Evolving Climate Regime by
Jutta Brunnée
* Chapter 13. Law and Science in Environmental Governance: The Effects
of Legal and Scientific Argumentation in the International Whaling
Commission by Lisbeth Zimmermann
* Chapter 14. International Legal Argumentation Outside the Courtroom:
A Focus on Intellectual Property by Edward Kwakwa
* Chapter 15. Arguing about Trade Law Beyond the Courtroom by Kathleen
Claussen
* Chapter 16. The Privileges and Immunities of the United Nations by
Stephen Mathias and Nicolas Perez
* Chapter 17. Towards a Theory of Legal Argumentation by Ian Johnstone
and Steven Ratner