International law as a profession /

"International law is not merely a set of rules or processes, but is a professional activity practised by a diversity of figures, including scholars, judges, counsel, teachers, legal advisers and activists. Individuals may in different contexts play more than one of these roles, and the interac...

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Other Authors: Aspremont, Jean d', Gazzini, Tarcisio, Nollkaemper, Andre⁺ѓ, Werner, W. G. (Wouter G.), 1966-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, United Kingdom : Cambridge University Press, 2017
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction / Jean d'Aspremont, Tarcisio Gazzini, Andre⁺ѓ Nollkaemper and Wouter Werner
  • The professionalisation of international law / Jean d'Aspremont
  • Between commitment and cynicism: outline for a theory of international law as practice / Martti Koskenniemi
  • International law as professional practice: crafting the autonomy of international law / Richard Collins and Alexandra Bohm
  • Scientific reason and the discipline of international law / Anne Orford
  • International legal scholarship under challenge / Anne Peters
  • The responsibility of the international legal academic: situating the grammarian within the "invisible college" / Gleider Hernandez
  • What is critique?: towards a sociology of disciplinary heterodoxy in contemporary international law / Akbar Rasulov
  • The relationship between theory and practice in international law: affirmation versus reflexive distance / Jochen von Bernstorff
  • The choice of the subject in writing histories of international law / John D. Haskell
  • International legal theory qua practice of international law / Samantha Besson
  • Moving beyond interdisciplinary turf wars: towards an understanding of international law as practice / Tanja Aalberts and Ingo Venzke
  • Professionals of international justice: from the shadow of state diplomacy to the pull of the market for commercial arbitration / Sara Dezalay with the contribution of Yves Dezalay
  • The international law bar: essence before existence? / James Crawford
  • Consigliere or conscience?: the role of the government legal adviser / Matthew Windsor
  • International law as expert knowledge: exploring the changing role of international lawyers in national contexts / Rene⁺ѓ Uruen⁺ёa
  • Teachers of international law / Pierre d'Argent
  • Concluding remarks: the Praxis of international law / Wouter Werner