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Author:   Owen Taylor
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Weight:   0.430kg
ISBN:  

9780367076597

ISBN 10:   0367076594
Pages:   200
Publication Date:   13 June 2019
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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CONTENTS: Acknowledgment Introduction Foreground: Revolutionary Times? Critical Times; Critical Scholarship A Materialist Approach to International Law Revolutions of All Shapes and Sizes The Structure of the Book Why Law Anyway? Chapter 1: Revolution and Revolutionary Praxis I: Introduction I. Revolution in Existing Scholarship II. The Conceptual History of Revolution III: Marxist Revolution – Political and Social; Bourgeois and Proletarian IV: Revolutionary Agency V: Conclusion Chapter 2: International Law and International Legal Praxis I: Introduction II: The Ambiguous Promise of International Law III: The Politics of Law and Fundamental Legal Indeterminacy IV: Pashukanis and the Commodity Form Theory of Law V: The Brutal Heart of Law VI: Revolutionary Praxis in Law VII: Conclusion Chapter 3: The Soviet Relationship to International Law I: Introduction II: Background – Revolution, Foreign Policy and the Law III: The Soviet ‘Approach’ to International Law IV: The View From Without V: Common International Legal Practice? VI: Understanding the Soviet ‘Approach’ VII: Revolutionary Legal Praxis and the Soviet example VIII: Conclusion Chapter 4: The Third World and the New International Economic Order I: Introduction II: Background III: The Third World relationship to International Law IV: Bandung; Non-Aligned Movement and the G77; UNCTAD V: OPEC: Commodities, commodity booms and Oil – the exception VI: Resolutions VII: Revolutionary Legal Praxis and the Third World – An Assessment * VIII: Conclusion * Conclusion * Counter-revolutionary times The importance of reclaiming revolution The possibility of revolutionary praxis as legal praxis Fundamental legal relations Soviet legal practice: between pragmatism and revolution Third World legal practice: between idealism and revolution The vulnerable heart of law: property and contract Bibliography index

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Owen Taylor is an independent researcher, currently based in Marseille. He completed his doctorate in Law at SOAS, University of London.

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