Revolutions in International Law: The Legacies of 1917

ISBN-13: 9781108816847 / Angielski / Miękka / 2022 / 444 str.

Greenman, Kathryn

Opis

The 1917 October Revolution and the revolutionary Mexican Constitution shook the foundations of international law. This collection revisits their legacies.

Recenzje

'This volume is a rich and innovative work that advances our understanding of the role of 1917 in shaping international law and interrogates law as a factor of both radical transformation and maintenance of the status-quo. It will surely serve to push forward new research agendas …' Raluca Grosescu, Journal of the History of International Law

Spis treści

1. International law and revolution: 1917 and beyond Kathryn Greenman, Anne Orford, Ntina Tzouvala and Anna Saunders; Part I. Imperialism: 2. Looking eastwards: the Bolshevik theory of imperialism and international law Ntina Tzouvala and Robert Knox; 3. Lenin at Nuremberg: anti-imperialism and the juridification of crimes against humanity Amanda Alexander; Part II. Institutions and Orders: 4. Excluding revolutionary states: Mexico, Russia and the League of Nations Alison Duxbury; 5. Law, class struggle and nervous breakdowns Mai Taha; 6. Microcosm: Soviet constitutional internationality Scott Newton; 7. Law and socialist revolution: early Soviet legal theory and practice Owen Taylor; Part III. Intervention: 8. Intervention: sketches from the scenes of the Mexican and Russian Revolutions Dino Kritsiotis; 9. Mexican revolutionary constituencies and the Latin American critique of US intervention Juan Pablo Scarfi; 10. Mexican post-revolutionary foreign policy and the Spanish Civil War: legal struggles over intervention at the League of Nations Fabia Fernandes Carvalho Veçoso; Part IV. Investment: 11. 1917: property, revolution and rejection in international law Kate Miles; 12. 1917 and its implications for the law of expropriation Daria Davitti; 13. Contestations over legal authority: the Lena Goldfields Arbitration 1930 Andrea Leiter; 14. The Mexican Revolution: alien protection and international economic order Kathryn Greenman; Part V. Rights: 15. 'Animated by the European spirit': European human rights as counterrevolutionary legality Anna Saunders; 16. Human Rights, revolution and the 'good society': the Soviet Union and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights Jessica Whyte.