The Rule of Unwritten International Law: Customary Law, General Principles, and World Order

ISBN-13: 9780367591380 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 244 str.

Peter G. Staubach

Opis

This book applies general concepts of legal philosophy to explain the continuing relevance of custom as a source of international law, while at the same time inferring from this theoretical framework concrete practical and methodological consequences, the most important of which is the special role that purposive interpretation plays with respec

Spis treści

I. Introduction

II. Unwritten Law as Self-Organisation: A Historical Perspective

III. Theoretical Problems and Methodological Approaches

IV. The Quest for Objectivity

V. The Riddle of Purposive Interpretation

VI. Analogical Reasoning and the Recognition of General Principles of Law　

VII. Conclusion: The Dialectics of World Public Order

O autorze

Peter G. Staubach is a research fellow at Humboldt University in Berlin, Germany.