The Aims and Methods of Postcolonial International Law

by Chin Leng Lim

Criticism of colonial justifications has been familiar since the age of Sep lveda and Las Casas. Yet today it is said that international law is, and always was, an instrument of colonialism. It is true that the ius gentium and the Law of Nations failed to prevent colonialism and were used in fact to justify colonialism. Still, such failures which occurred over the successive periods of European colonization of non-European peoples did not implicate...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9004696156
• ISBN13: 9789004696150
• Release Date: September 2024
• Publisher: Brill Nijhoff