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About this book
International lawyers typically start with the legal. What is a legal as opposed to a political question? How should international law adapt to the unforeseen? These are the routes by which international lawyers typically reason. This book begins, instead, with the non-legal. In a series of case studies, Fleur Johns examines what international lawyers cast outside or against law - as extra-legal, illegal, pre-legal or otherwise non-legal - and how this comes to shape political possibility. Non-legality is not merely the remainder of regulatory action. It is a key structuring device of contemporary global order. Constructions of non-legality are pivotal to debate in areas ranging from torture to foreign investment and from climate change to natural disaster relief. Understandings of non-legality inform what international lawyers today do and what they refrain from doing. Tracing and potentially reimagining the non-legal in international legal work is, accordingly, both vital and pressing.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Non-Legality in International Law
- Series
- Title
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Contents
- Foreword
- Acknowledgements
- 1 Making non-legalities in international law
- 2 Illegality and the torture memos
- 3 Black holes and the outside within: extra-legality in international law
- 4 Doing deals: pre- and post-legal choice in transnational financing
- 5 Receiving climate change: law, science and supra-legality
- 6 Death, disaster and infra-legality in international law
- Conclusion
- Bibliography
- Index
- Series