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Merchants of Legalism: A History of State Responsibility (1870–1960)

Merchants of Legalism: A History of State Responsibility (1870–1960)

Name: Merchants of Legalism: A History of State Responsibility (1870–1960)
Brand: Cambridge University Press
SKU: 9781009378642
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Author: Alan Tzvika Nissel
ISBN: 9781009378642

By Alan Tzvika Nissel

Cambridge University Press December 2024

Specifications

ISBN-13: 9781009378642
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication: December 2024
Format: Hardback
Jurisdiction: U.K. ? Countri(es) for reference only

Details

Since the United Nations finalised its Draft Articles on the Responsibility of States for Internationally Wrongful Acts in 2001, most of the attention has been on the codification history of the topic. Alan Nissel widens the historic lens to include the pre-United Nations origins, offering the first extensive study on the American contribution to the modern law of state responsibility. The book examines the recurring narrative of lawyers using international law to suit the particular needs of their clients in three key contexts: the US turn to international arbitration practice in the New World, the German theorisation of public law in the setting of its national unification, and the multilateral effort to codify international law within world bodies. This expanded historical framework not only traces the pre-institutional origins of the code, but also highlights the duality of State responsibility doctrines and the political environments from which they emerged.

Acknowledgements

1. The responsibilities of States in International law: an overview

2. The US turn to the technique of international arbitration

3. The creation of State responsibility in the New World

4. International responsibility as German philosophy

5. State responsibility as World order

Epilogue: from State responsibility to the responsibility of States

Bibliography

Index

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