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The Decay of International Law: A Reappraisal of the Limits of Legal Imagination in International Affairs

The Decay of International Law: A Reappraisal of the Limits of Legal Imagination in International Affairs

Name: The Decay of International Law: A Reappraisal of the Limits of Legal Imagination in International Affairs
Brand: Manchester University Press
SKU: 9781526127914
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Author: Anthony Carty
ISBN: 9781526127914

By Anthony Carty

Manchester University Press August 2019

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ISBN-13: 9781526127914
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Publication: August 2019
Format: Paperback
Jurisdiction: U.K. ? Countri(es) for reference only

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Originally published in 1986 this book has become a classic of international law literature. It was a penetrating critique of the methodology of international law as it had come to be understood and accepted by the generality of international lawyers. It called for a realisation of the crucial role which international lawyers should play in reflecting in the nature and implications of the principles and arguments used by governments and other actors in the international stage. It called for a positive legal analysis of international issues.

This edition comes with a new 10,000 word introduction that will put the original work it in its proper historical context. New generations of international legal scholars who did not read Carty in the 1980s and who have had little chance to do so since then because of the book's unavailability will show a great deal of interest in delving into the thoughts of one of the most influential critical legal thinkers

New Series Editor foreword Jean d'Aspremont and Iain Scobbie

New introduction Anthony Carty

Foreword to original Gillian M. White

Preface to original Anthony Carty

1. Introduction: a crisis of method in international law

2. Legal doctrine and the development of international legal concepts

3. General customary law

4. Doctrinal conceptions of the law relating to territory

5. 'Pure' theories of treaty law: a world without diplomacy

6. Legal doctrine, the principle of non-intervention and the practice of States

7. Legal method, the 'state of nature' and some contemporary issues of self-determination

Index