Non-Legality in International Law: Unruly Law

by Fleur Johns

Book Overview

International lawyers typically start with the legal. What is a legal as opposed to a political question? How should international law adapt to the unforeseen? These are the routes by which international lawyers typically reason. This book begins, instead, with the non-legal. In a series of case studies, Fleur Johns examines what international lawyers cast outside or against law - as extra-legal, illegal, pre-legal or otherwise non-legal - and how...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1107014018
• ISBN13: 9781107014015
• Release Date: February 2013
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 282 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.2" x 9.1"