International law as a profession
International law is not merely a set of rules or processes, but is a professional activity practised by a diversity of figures, including scholars, judges, counsel, teachers, legal advisers and activists. Individuals may, in different contexts, play more than one of these roles, and the interaction...
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Cambridge
Cambridge University Press
2017
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Table of Contents:
- Machine generated contents note: Introduction Jean d'Aspremont, Tarcisio Gazzini, Andre Nollkaemper and Wouter Werner; Part I. Thinking of International Law as a Professional Practice: 1. The professionalization of international law Jean d'Aspremont; 2. Between commitment and cynicism: outline for a theory of international law as practice Martti Koskenniemi; 3. The (academic) profession of international law and the commitment to legal autonomy Alexandra Bohm and Richard Collins; 4. Scientific reason and the discipline of international law Anne Orford; Part II. The Practice of International Law and its Theories: 5. Realizing Utopia as a scholarly endeavour Anne Peters; 6. The activist academic in international legal scholarship Gleider Hernandez; 7. How NAIL works: the production of heterodoxy in international law Akbar Rasulov; 8. International legal research and the quest for immanent moral order Jochen von Bernstorff; 9. The turn to history within international legal scholarship John Haskell; 10. International legal theory qua practice of international law Samantha Besson; Part III. The Practice of International Law and its Professional Capacities: 11. International law as practice: moving past the anxieties of interdisciplinarity Tanja Aalberts and Ingo Venzke; 12. Towards a political sociology of international justice(s) Sara Dezalay and Yves Dezalay; 13. The international law bar: essence before existence? James Crawford; 14. Consigliere or conscience: the legal adviser's dilemma Matthew Windsor; 15. International law as expertise: exploring pluralism and the anxiety of certainty as professional experiences Rene Uruena; 16. Teachers of international law Pierre d'Argent; Concluding remarks: the Praxis of international law Wouter Werner