International Law and Revolution

ISBN-13: 9781032241067 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 200 str.

Owen Taylor

Opis

This book explores the historical inter-relations between international law and revolution, with a focus on how international anti-capitalist struggle plays out through law.

Spis treści

CONTENTS:

Acknowledgment

Introduction

Foreground: Revolutionary Times?

Critical Times; Critical Scholarship

A Materialist Approach to International Law

Revolutions of All Shapes and Sizes

The Structure of the Book

Why Law Anyway?

Chapter 1: Revolution and Revolutionary Praxis

I: Introduction

I. Revolution in Existing Scholarship

II. The Conceptual History of Revolution

III: Marxist Revolution – Political and Social; Bourgeois and Proletarian

IV: Revolutionary Agency

V: Conclusion

Chapter 2: International Law and International Legal Praxis

I: Introduction

II: The Ambiguous Promise of International Law

III: The Politics of Law and Fundamental Legal Indeterminacy

IV: Pashukanis and the Commodity Form Theory of Law

V: The Brutal Heart of Law

VI: Revolutionary Praxis in Law

VII: Conclusion

Chapter 3: The Soviet Relationship to International Law

I: Introduction

II: Background – Revolution, Foreign Policy and the Law

III: The Soviet ‘Approach’ to International Law

IV: The View From Without

V: Common International Legal Practice?

VI: Understanding the Soviet ‘Approach’

VII: Revolutionary Legal Praxis and the Soviet example

VIII: Conclusion

Chapter 4: The Third World and the New International Economic Order

I: Introduction

II: Background

III: The Third World relationship to International Law

IV: Bandung; Non-Aligned Movement and the G77; UNCTAD

V: OPEC: Commodities, commodity booms and Oil – the exception

VI: Resolutions

VII: Revolutionary Legal Praxis and the Third World – An Assessment *

VIII: Conclusion *

Conclusion *

Counter-revolutionary times

The importance of reclaiming revolution

The possibility of revolutionary praxis as legal praxis

Fundamental legal relations

Soviet legal practice: between pragmatism and revolution

Third World legal practice: between idealism and revolution

The vulnerable heart of law: property and contract

Bibliography

index

O autorze

Owen Taylor is an independent researcher, currently based in Marseille. He completed his doctorate in Law at SOAS, University of London.