International Legal Positivism in a Post-Modern World
The Project
International Legal Positivism in a Post-Modern World provides fresh perspectives on one of the most important, yet controversial families of theoretical approaches to the study and practice of international law. In nineteen chapters, written by leading experts on international legal theory, positivism as conceptual framework for international law is analysed, criticised, related to other approaches and applied to current problems of international law. Is legal positivism still relevant to the theory and practice of international law today? Have other answers to the problems of international law and the critique of positivism been able to undermine the positivist project and its narratives? Do modern forms of positivism, inspired largely by the theoretically sophisticated jurisprudential concepts associated with Hans Kelsen and HLA Hart, remain of any relevance for the international lawyer in this ‘post-modern’ age? The authors provide a wide variety of views and a stimulating debate about this family of approaches.
The book will be published in early 2014 with Cambridge University Press, ISBN 9781107019263.
The Editors
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jean.daspremont@manchester.ac.uk |
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Dr Jörg Kammerhofer Senior Research Fellow/Senior Lecturer at the Hans Kelsen Research Group at the University of Freiburg. joerg.kammerhofer@jura.uni-freiburg.de |
Table of Contents
Chapter 1 Introduction: The Future of International Legal Positivism Jean d’Aspremont and Jörg Kammerhofer
I. Theorising International Legal Positivism
Chapter 2 Classical Positivism in International Law Revisited (Richard Collins)
Chapter 3 German Intellectual Historical Origins of International Legal Positivism (Jochen von Bernstorff)
Chapter 4 Hans Kelsen in Today’s International Legal Scholarship (Jörg Kammerhofer)
Chapter 5 Herbert Hart in Today’s International Legal Scholarship (Jean d’Aspremont)
Chapter 6 Beyond Kelsen and Hart (Alexander Somek)
Chapter 7 Post-Modern Perspectives on Orthodox Positivism (Ingo Venzke)
II. Relating International Legal Positivism
Chapter 8 International Legal Positivism and Modern Natural Law (Patrick Capps)
Chapter 9 International Legal Positivism and Legal Realism (Jeremy Telman)
Chapter 10 International Legal Positivism and Constitutionalism (Jan Klabbers)
Chapter 11 International Legal Positivism and New Approaches to International Law (Sahib Singh)
III. Using International Legal Positivism
Chapter 12 Interpretation (Gleider Hernández)
Chapter 13 Teaching General Public International Law (Florian Hoffmann)
Chapter 14 International Law in Domestic and Supranational Settings (Beatrice Bonafé)
Chapter 15 Transnational Governance Regimes (Dennis Patterson)
Chapter 16 Human Rights from a Neo-Voluntarist Perspective (Théodore Christakis)
Chapter 17 International Criminal Law (Dov Jacobs)
Chapter 18 International Humanitarian Law (Yael Ronen)
Chapter 19 Use of Force (Christian Tams and Antonios Tzanakopoulos)