What is it about?
This aptly titled book draws the landscape of theoretical production in public international law. It surveys the work of over 500 authors and 140 themes, providing an overview of the major schools, movements, and trends that contribute to the theoretical mapping of modern international law. It looks at how literature addresses fundamental questions about international law, including international obligations, legitimacy, compliance, unity and universality, the rule of law, human rights, use of force, and economics.
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Why is it important?
The book maps and broadens the theoretical terrain of public international law, addressing both recent and long-standing issues. Its concise but wide-ranging approach coupled with engaging writing can be used by scholars, students, practitioners as well as readers interested in history and public international law.
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“We owe a debt of gratitude to Professor Emmanuel Roucounas for piecing together the doctrinal and theoretical foundations of international law in his book” Sreenivasa Rao Pemmaraju Chinese JIL (2021) 173 “Professor Emmanuel Roucounas…takes inspiration apparently from that other Greco-Egyptian author, Athenaeus. In Athenaeus's The Deipnosophists, a series of erudite discussions by philosophers and other learned personages occur over dinner. Rather than presenting us with a singular thesis, Roucounas gathers the authors he tells of and adopts something of Athenaeus's dinner conversational tone.”CL Lim 70(3) ICLQ 822 “La somme que vient de publier le professeur Emmanuel Roucounas est une fête pour tous les juristes. Em. Decaux, Annuaire Français De Droit International LXV – 2020 – Cnrs Éditions, Paris «Buffant et indispensable – ce sont les mots qui viennent à l’esprit à la lecture de l’ouvrage d’ Emmanuel Roucounas, qui couronne la riche carrière de professeur et praticien de ce «vétéran du droit international » A. Pellet (2021) 125(1) RGDIP 447 «Esta magnífica obra nos ofrece un auténtico panorama del Derecho Internacional Público contemporáneo“ Garcia Bermejo & Lopez-Jacoiste (2020) 36 Anuario Espanol de DI 534 “The reading of this work can be recommended particularly as an exercise of punctual consultation of such or such notion, to drink in what the doctrine has been able to do with its contrasts, points of convergence, and simple anfractuosities.” R. Kolb 63 GYbIL (2020) 863
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This page is a summary of: A Landscape of Contemporary Theories of International Law, September 2019, Brill,
DOI: 10.1163/9789004385368.
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