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LEGITIMACY AND LEGALITY IN INTERNATIONAL LAW
AN INTERACTIONAL ACCOUNT |
| By: |
Jutta Brunnee, Stephen J. Toope |
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Hardback |
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| ISBN 10: |
0521880653 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780521880657 |
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| Publisher: |
CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS |
| Pub. date: |
5 August, 2010 |
| Series: |
Cambridge Studies in International and Comparative Law 67 |
| Pages: |
436 |
| Description: |
An account of the role that legal obligation plays in creating and maintaining effective international law. |
| Synopsis: |
It has never been more important to understand how international law enables and constrains international politics. By drawing together the legal theory of Lon Fuller and the insights of constructivist international relations scholars, this book articulates a pragmatic view of how international obligation is created and maintained. First, legal norms can only arise in the context of social norms based on shared understandings. Second, internal features of law, or 'criteria of legality', are crucial to law's ability to promote adherence, to inspire 'fidelity'. Third, legal norms are built, maintained or destroyed through a continuing practice of legality. Through case studies of the climate change regime, the anti-torture norm, and the prohibition on the use of force, it is shown that these three elements produce a distinctive legal legitimacy and a sense of commitment among those to whom law is addressed. |
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UK |
| Imprint: |
Cambridge University Press |
| Prizes: |
Winner of American Society of International Law Certificate of Merit for a |
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