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Author Werner, Wouter, author

Title Repetition and International Law / Wouter Werner
Published Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2022

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Description 1 online resource (x, 194 pages)
Series Cambridge Studies in International and Comparative Law
Cambridge studies in international and comparative law.
Summary Acts of repetition abound in international law. Security Council Resolutions typically start by recalling, recollecting, recognising or reaffirming previous resolutions. Expert committees present restatements of international law. Students and staff extensively rehearse fictitious cases in presentations for moot court competitions. Customary law exists by virtue of repeated behaviour and restatements about the existence of rules. When sources of international law are deployed, historically contingent events are turned into manifestations of pre-given and repeatable categories. This book studies the workings of repetition across six discourses and practices in international law. It links acts of repetition to similar practices in religion, theatre, film and commerce. Building on the dialectics of repetition as set out by Søren Kierkegaard, it examines how repetition in international law is used to connect concrete practices to something that is bound to remain absent, unspeakable or unimaginable
Notes Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 24 Jan 2022)
Subject International law.
International relations.
Jurisprudence.
international relations.
law (discipline)
International law
International relations
Jurisprudence
Form Electronic book
ISBN 1009039660
9781009039666
9781009040112
1009040111
Other Titles Repetition & International Law