The Degradation of the International Legal Order? The Rehabilitation of Law and the Possibility of Politics

The Degradation of the International Legal Order? The Rehabilitation of Law and the Possibility of Politics

Introduction; Self-determination—the revolutionary kernel of international law; The degradation of international law?; The legality of the invasion and occupation of Iraq; After Iraq—International human rights law in crisis; Ideology in International Law, and the critique of Habermas; A substantive account of human rights; Human rights as the negation of politics?; 'Postmodern' reconstructions of human rights; The challenge of methodological individualism; The scandal of social and economic rights; The problem of 'legal transplantation' and human rights; Conclusion.

Donated by Frances Webber

Bill Bowring

Routledge-Cavendish, GlassHouse

2008

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