International Law and the Significance of Disciplinary Boundaries: Special Regimes as Communities of Practice

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International Law and the Significance of Disciplinary Boundaries: Special Regimes as Communities of Practice

Edited by Ulf Linderfalk · Eric De Brabandere
Cambridge University Press November 2024

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ISBN-13
9781009543200
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Publication
November 2024
Format
Hardback
Jurisdiction
U.K. ? Countri(es) for reference only

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Over the last thirty or so years, international law and legal practice have become increasingly more specialized and diversified. These developments come with an increasingly divergent legal practice, in what has been coined as 'special regimes'. This book proposes a new understanding of the concept of a special regime to explain why specialists in different fields of international law do similar things differently. It argues that special regimes are best conceived as communities of practice, in the sense of Etienne Wenger's theory of communities of practice. It explores how the theory of communities of practice translates to the context of international law and the concept of a special regime.

The authors draw up an innovative methodology to investigate their theory, focused on the conduct of community members, and apply this method to selected case studies, offering an original approach to the understanding of the special regimes in international law.

Table of Contents

1. The concept of a special regime
2. Special regimes as communities of practice
3. A mutual engagement
4. A joint enterprise
5. A shared repertoire
6. Special regimes and the fragmentation of international law
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