Humanity's Law

Author:   Ruti Teitel (, Ernst C. Stiefel Professor of Comparative Law, New York Law School)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press Inc
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Pages:   320
Publication Date:   02 May 2013
Format:   Paperback
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In Humanity's Law, renowned legal scholar Ruti Teitel offers a powerful account of one of the central transformations of the post-Cold War era: the profound normative shift in the international legal order from prioritizing state security to protecting human security. As she demonstrates, courts, tribunals, and other international bodies now rely on a humanity-based framework to assess the rights and wrongs of conflict; to determine whether and how to intervene; and to impose accountability and responsibility. Cumulatively, the norms represent a new law of humanity that spans the law of war, international human rights, and international criminal justice. Teitel explains how this framework is reshaping the discourse of international politics with a new approach to the management of violent conflict. Teitel maintains that this framework is most evidently at work in the jurisprudence of the tribunals-international, regional, and domestic-that are charged with deciding disputes that often span issues of internal and international conflict and security. The book demonstrates how the humanity law framework connects the mandates and rulings of diverse tribunals and institutions, addressing the fragmentation of global legal order. Comprehensive in approach, Humanity's Law considers legal and political developments related to violent conflict in Europe, North America, South America, and Africa. This interdisciplinary work is essential reading for anyone attempting to grasp the momentous changes occurring in global affairs as the management of conflict is increasingly driven by the claims and interests of persons and peoples, and state sovereignty itself is transformed.

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Author:   Ruti Teitel (, Ernst C. Stiefel Professor of Comparative Law, New York Law School)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press Inc
Imprint:   Oxford University Press Inc
Dimensions:   Width: 15.50cm , Height: 2.30cm , Length: 23.10cm
Weight:   0.476kg
ISBN:  

9780199975464


ISBN 10:   0199975469
Pages:   320
Publication Date:   02 May 2013
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

1. Introduction ; 2. The Faces of Humanity: Origins and Jurisprudence ; 3. The Ambit of Humanity Law: An Emerging Transnational Legal Order ; 4. Peacemaking, Punishment, and the Justice of War: The Humanity Law Framework and the Turn to International Criminal Justice ; 5. Protecting Humanity: The Practice of Humanity Law ; 6. Humanity Law and the Discourse of Global Justice: The Turn to Human Security ; 7. Humanity Law and the Future of International Law: Debating Sovereignty and Cosmopolitanism ; 8. A Humanity Law of Peoples: Normative Directions and Dynamics ; 9. Conclusion

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<br> This masterful treatise by Teitel, a law professor at New York University, offers one of the best explanations yet of the complex, shifting normative foundations of international law. ... This book is an indispensable guide to understanding these intellectual transformations and their complicated implications for policymakers and the international community. -Foreign Affairs<p><br> The best study yet of how international law is shifting emphasis from bolstering the security of states to protecting individuals from states. -New Statesman<p><br> This engaging book draws on a variety of interdisciplinary perspectives as it considers legal and political developments related to violent conflict globally. Professor Teitel's book provides a nuanced and comprehensive look at how global affairs have evolved as individual interests increasingly drive conflict management. -Harvard Law Review <br><p><br> A powerful account of one of the central transformations of the post-Cold War era: the profound normative shift in the international legal order from prioritizing state security to protecting human securityELessential reading for anyone attempting to grasp the momentous changes occurring in global affairs as the management of conflict is increasingly driven by the claims and interests of persons and peoples, and state sovereignty itself is transformed. -International Law Reporter <br><p><br> A humanity law is currently emerging, in which a paradigm change is evident that is a shift away from law primarily as a model for the resolution of conflict between states and towards law as an instrument that recognizes the respect for fundamental human and group rights as the main condition of its validity. Needless to say, Ruti Teitel is fully aware that this development is difficult and frequently threatened by setbacks. However, she also knows-and conveys the information to the reader convincingly in nine extensively annotated chapters-that a large number of stages in this dire


Humanity's Law is most compelling where Teitel documents the infiltration of these principles into mainstream legal thinking. ... gives name and texture to a significant shift that has been hidden in plain sight. * Charles Olney, Human Rights Review * Ruti Teitels Humanity's Law, as an erudite work of serious scholarship, provides a theoretical corollary to cosmopolitanism as a philosophical ideal and a political project that would appeal to a wide array of scholars and practitioners of international law pondering global accountability frameworks and governance beyond the confines of the statist paradigm. The book, therefore, offers an unprecedented opportunity to complement and enhance rather than find deficient and problematic a common vernacular in favor of a thoroughly pluralistic and humanitys-law-oriented outlook ... By recognizing a broader set of values and interests, Humanitys Law is an essential voice of global conscience in a world fragmented by conflict and torn between appeals to enlightened self-interest and spurs of selfless humanitarian compassion, and plays a decisively transformative role in furthering the humanity-based scheme of jurisdiction... * Joanna K. Rozpedowski, Law and Politics Book Review *


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Ruti G. Teitel is Ernst C. Stiefel Professor of Comparative Law at New York Law School, Visiting Professor at Hebrew University School of Law, and Visiting Fellow, London School of Economics.

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