Cynical International Law?: Abuse and Circumvention in Public International and European Law

ISBN-13: 9783662621271 / Angielski / Twarda / 2020 / 369 str.

Bj?rnstjern Baade; Dana Burchardt; Prisca Feihle

Spis treści

How (Not) to Be Cynical in International Law by Björnstjern Baade, Dana Burchardt, Prisca Feihle, Alicia Köppen, Linus Mührel, Lena Riemer and Raphael Schäfer.- Part I – Cynical Foundations of International Law: Cynicism and the Autonomy of International Law by Theresa Reinold.- Beyond Cynicism and Critique: International Law and the Possibility of Change by Gabriel M Lentner.- Cynicism as a Modus of Political Agency: Can It Speak to International Law? by Hengameh Saberi.- Part II – Cynical Actors in International Law: The International Law Commission as a Club of Cynics? Originalism and Legalism in the Commission’s Contemporary Work by Konstantin Kleine.- The Added Value of the International Law Commission and Its Future Role in the Progressive Development and Codification of International Law by Patrícia Galvão Teles.- From Speaking Truth to Power to Speaking Power’s Truth: Transnational Judicial Activism in an Increasingly Illiberal World by Daniel R. Quiroga-Villamarín.- From Judicialisation to Politicisation? A Response to Daniel Ricardo Quiroga-Villamarín by an Academic Turned Practitioner by Andreas Paulus.- Oceans of Cynicism? Norm-Genesis, Lawfare and the South China Sea Arbitration Case by Christian R. J. Pogies.- Peace Through Law? The Role of the Law of the Sea Convention Put into Question by Nele Matz-Lück.- Part III – Cynicism in European Law and Subfields of International Law: Assessing the Strategic Use of the EU Preliminary Ruling Procedure by National Courts by Jesse T. Claassen.- In International Law We (Do Not) Trust: The Persistent Rejection of Economic and Social Rights as a Manifestation of Cynicism by Caroline Omari Lichuma.- In International Law We Shall Trust – (Even in) The Case of Economic and Social Rights by Dominik Steiger.- All Is Fair in Law and War? Legal Cynicism in the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict by Shiri Krebs.- Cynicism? Yes, Please! Embracing Cynicism at the International Criminal Court by Elisabeth Baier.- Part IV – Cynicism and Abuse of Rights: Abuse of Right in International Law: A Roman Law Analogy by Andrea Faraci and Luigi Lonardo.- Abuse of Rights: From Roman Law to International Law? Comments on the Contribution by Andrea Faraci and Luigi Lonardo by Helmut Philipp Aust.- Cynicism and Nationality Planning in International Investment Law by Philipp Janig.- (New) Ways of Combating Abuse and Circumvention of European Law on the Example of Tax Evasion and Tax Avoidance by Helene Hayden.- Cynicism as an Analytical Lense for International Law? Concluding Observations by Heike Krieger.

O autorze

Björnstjern Baade is senior research fellow at the Institute for Public and International Law of Freie Universität Berlin and postdoc in the working group ‘Towards a Proceduralization of International Law?’ of the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law, Berlin/Heidelberg.

Dana Burchardt is senior research fellow at Freie Universität Berlin and member of the Berlin Potsdam Research Group ‘International Rule of Law – Rise or Decline?’.

Prisca Feihle is doctoral candidate and research fellow at Freie Universität Berlin.

Alicia Köppen is doctoral candidate at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, law clerk at Berlin Appellate Court (Kammergericht Berlin) and member of the Völkerrechtsblog editorial team. 

Linus Mührel is doctoral candidate at Freie Universität Berlin and research fellow at Technische Universität Dresden.

Lena Riemer is a former doctoral candidate and former research fellow at Freie Universität Berlin.

Raphael Schäfer is doctoral candidate at Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg and research fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law, Heidelberg.