The Law of International Lawyers

Reading Martti Koskenniemi

Wouter Werner, Marieke de Hoon, Alexis Galán

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Year: 2017
• Print ISBN:
  9781107193185
• eBook ISBN:
  9781108148917
• Topic: Law
• Subtopic: International Law
• Index: Law

For decades, Martti Koskenniemi has not just been an influential writer in international law; his work has caused a significant shift in the direction of the field. This book engages with some of the core questions that have animated Koskenniemi's scholarship so far. Its chapters attest to the breadth and depth of Koskenniemi's oeuvre and the different ways in which he has explored these questions. Koskenniemi's work is applied to a wide range of functional areas in international law and discussed in relation to an even broader range of theoretical perspectives, including history, political theory, sociology and international relations theory. These invaluable insights have been expertly brought together by the volume editors, who identify the key and common themes of many of the book's contributions. This volume demonstrates the importance of critical legal scholarship in the ways international law is enacted, shaped and reshaped over time.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half title
• Title
• Copyright
• Contents
• Contributors
• Acknowledgements
• Introduction: The Law of International Lawyers
• 1 What Moves Law? Martti Koskenniemi and Transcendence in International Law
• 2 Formalism, Realism and the Politics of Indeterminacy
• 3 Settling Disputes: a Matter of Politics and Law
• 4 Form Meets Function: the Culture of Formalism and International Environmental Regimes
• 5 Martti Koskenniemi on Human Rights: an Empirical Perspective
• 6 The Rule of Law in an Agnostic World: the Prohibition on the Use of Force and Humanitarian Exceptions
• 7 The Space between Us: Law, Teleology and the New Orientalism of Counterdisciplinarity
• 8 The Critic(-al Subject)
• 9 Practising Law: Spoudaios, Professional, Expert or ‘Macher’? Reflections on the Changing Nature of an Occupation
• 10 Thinking about What International Humanitarian Lawyers ‘Do’: an Examination of the Laws of War as a Field of Professional Practice
• 11 International Law and the Limits of History
• 12 Even the Dead Will Not Be Safe: International Law and the Struggle over Tradition
• 13 Martti Koskenniemi and the Historiography of International Law in the Age of the War on Terror
• 14 Martti Koskenniemi’s Critique of Eurocentrism in International Law
• Epilogue: To Enable and Enchant - on the Power of Law
• Index