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Title The Oxford handbook of the theory of international law / edited by Anne Orford and Florian Hoffmann with Martin Clark
Edition First edition
Published Oxford, United Kingdom : Oxford University Press, 2016
℗♭2016

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Description xxxi, 1045 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm
Series [Oxford handbooks]
Oxford handbooks.
Contents Introduction: Theorizing international law -- Part I. Histories. Theorizing the turn to history in international law -- Roman law and the intellectual history of international law -- Transformations of natural law : Germany 1648-1815 -- Hugo Grotius : the making of a founding father of international law -- The critique of classical thought during the interwar period : Vattel and Van Vollenhoven -- The Ottoman Empire, the origins of extraterritoriality, and international legal theory -- China in the age of the world picture -- Imperialism and international legal theory -- Early twentieth-century positivism revisited -- Hans Kelsen and the return of universalism -- Schmitt, Schmitteanism and contemporary international legal theory -- Hannah Arendt and international law -- International legal theory in Russia : a civilizational perspective, or Can individuals be subjects of international law? -- Part II. Approaches. Natural law in international legal theory : linear and dialectical presentations -- Marxist approaches to international law -- Realist approaches to international law -- Constructivism and the politics of international law -- The international signs law -- Moral philosophy and international law -- International legal positivism -- Yale's policy science and international law : between legal formalism and policy conceptualism -- International law and economics : letting go of the "normal" in pursuit of an ever-elusive real -- Liberal internationalism -- Feminist approaches to international law -- Kant, cosmopolitanism and international law -- Global administrative law and deliberative democracy -- Part III. Regimes and doctrines. Towards a new theory of sources in international law -- Something to do with states -- Theorizing recognition and international personality -- Theorizing jurisdiction -- Theorizing international organizations -- Theorizing the corporation in international law -- Theorizing international law on force and intervention -- Theorizing human rights -- Theorizing free trade -- International criminal law : theory all over the place -- Theorizing the laws of war -- Theories of transitional justice : cashing in the blue chips -- Theorizing international environmental law -- Theorizing international law and development -- Theorizing responsibility -- Theorizing private international law -- Transnational migration, globalization and governance : theorizing a crisis -- Part IV. Debates. Religion, secularism and international law -- The idea of progress -- International legalism and international politics -- Creating poverty -- Fragmentation and constitutionalization
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Subject International law -- Philosophy.
International law.
Author Orford, Anne, editor
Hoffmann, Florian, 1972- editor
Clark, Martin, 1989- editor
LC no. 2016939860
ISBN 9780198701958
0198701950
Other Titles Theory of international law