The Changing Practices of International Law, 9781108425971
Hardcover
Since the Second World War there has been a remarkable expansion of international legal institutions. At the same time, however, international law is challenged by states fearing the loss of their political room for manoeuvre. This book explores how states are responding by developing a new politics…

The Changing Practices of International Law

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  • Hardcover

    270 pages

  • Release Date

    5 April 2018

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Summary

With more than 158,000 treaties and some 125 judicial organisations, international law has become an inescapable factor in world politics since the Second World War. In recent years, however, international law has also been increasingly challenged as states are voicing concerns that it is producing unintended effects and accuse international courts of judicial activism. This book provides an important corrective to existing theories of international law by focusing on how states respond to in…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9781108425971
ISBN-10:1108425976
Author:Tanja Aalberts, Thomas Gammeltoft-Hansen
Publisher:Cambridge University Press
Imprint:Cambridge University Press
Format:Hardcover
Number of Pages:270
Release Date:5 April 2018
Weight:500g
Dimensions:235mm x 156mm x 17mm
About The Author

Tanja Aalberts

Tanja Aalberts is Professor of Law at Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam and Director of the Centre for the Politics of Transnational Law . She has a Ph.D. in International Relations and her research focuses on the interplay between international law and international politics in practices of governance. Thomas Gammeltoft-Hansen is Research Director at the Raoul Wallenberg Institute of Human Rights and Humanitarian Law and Honorary Professor of Law at Aarhus Universitet, Denmark. He received his Ph.D. in international law from Aarhus University, M.Sc. in refugee studies from the University of Oxford and M.A. in political science from the University of Copenhagen.

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