Overview
This updated and revised second edition provides a comprehensive scholarly framework for analyzing the theory and history of international law. Featuring an array of legal and interdisciplinary analyses, it focuses on those theories and developments that illuminate the central and timeless basic concepts and categories of the international legal system, highlighting the interdependency of various aspects of theory and history and demonstrating the connections between theory and practice.With contributions from renowned experts, this Research Handbook explores the essence and development of international legal theory, taking account of the key shifts and advances since the era of classical legal scholarship. Contributors examine several major areas of international law in depth, before transferring their focus to the history of international law from the medieval period up to the present day. Coverage has been expanded to include analysis of the origins of and Eurocentric narratives surrounding the present system, and to discuss significant developments of the 21st century. Scholars and students of international law and politics looking for an in-depth understanding of the current international legal system and its history will find this Research Handbook to be crucial reading. Its theoretical approach will also be of interest to legal theorists, as well as researchers in ethics and philosophy.
Full Product Details
Author: Alexander Orakhelashvili
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd
Imprint: Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd
Edition: 2nd edition
Dimensions:
Width: 16.90cm
, Height: 1.50cm
, Length: 24.40cm
Weight: 0.666kg
ISBN: 9781035300211
ISBN 10: 1035300214
Pages: 512
Publication Date: 14 July 2022
Audience:
Professional and scholarly
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Professional & Vocational
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: In Print
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Reviews
Acclaim for the First Edition: 'The editor has done a masterful job of gathering leaders in this field, facilitating the flow of this book through the ages of the thinking it describes, and presenting an incredibly well-documented and authoritative treatment of a somewhat neglected subject.' -- American Society of International Law Newsletter 'It is a good time in which to be a thinker about the remarkable present and the daunting future of the human world. The present volume will encourage more thinkers and more thought. It could not be more timely or more necessary.' -- From the Foreword to the First Edition by Philip Allott
Author Information
Edited by Alexander Orakhelashvili, Professor, School of Law, University of Birmingham, UK
