Legitimacy and Legality in International Law: An Interactional Account

International Law

Legitimacy and Legality in International Law An Interactional Account

Edited by Jutta Brunnee · Stephen J. Toope
Cambridge University Press August 2010

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ISBN-13
9780521706834
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Publication
August 2010
Format
Paperback
Jurisdiction
International ? Countri(es) for reference only

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It has never been more important to understand how international law enables and constrains international politics.

By drawing together the legal theory of Lon Fuller and the insights of constructivist international relations scholars, this book articulates a pragmatic view of how international obligation is created and maintained. First, legal norms can only arise in the context of social norms based on shared understandings. Second, internal features of law, or ‘criteria of legality', are crucial to law's ability to promote adherence, to inspire ‘fidelity'. Third, legal norms are built, maintained or destroyed through a continuing practice of legality.

Through case studies of the climate-change regime, the anti-torture norm, and the prohibition on the use of force, it is shown that these three elements produce a distinctive legal legitimacy and a sense of commitment among those to whom law is addressed.

Table of Contents

Contents:
Introduction
1. An interactional theory of international legal obligation
2. Shared understandings: making and unmaking international law
3. Interactional law and compliance: law's hidden power
4. Climate change: building a global legal regime
5. Torture: undermining normative ambition
6. The use of force: normative ebb and flow
Conclusion.
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