Crafting the International Order

Practitioners and Practices of International Law since c.1800

Marcus M Payk editor Kim Christian Priemel editor

Format:Hardback

Publisher:Oxford University Press

Published:25th Mar '21

Should be back in stock very soon

Crafting the International Order cover

This volume sheds light on how lawyers have made sense of, engaged in, and shaped international politics over the past three hundred years. Chapters show how politicians and administrators, diplomats and military men, have considered their tasks in legal terms, and how the field of international relations has been filled with the distinctly legal vocabulary of laws, regulations, treaties, agreements, and conventions. Leading experts in the field provide insights into what it means when concrete decisions are taken, negotiations led, or controversies articulated and resolved by legal professionals. They also inquire into how the often-criticised gaps between juristic standards and everyday realities can be explained by looking at the very medium of law. Rather than sorting people and problems into binary categories such as 'law' and 'politics' or 'theory' and 'practice', the case studies in this volume reflect on these dichotomies and dissolve them into the messy realities of conflicts and interactions which take place in historically contingent situations, and in which international lawyers assume varying personas.

...a collection of meticulously investigated case studies which jointly advance a compelling claim: that, between the nineteenth and the twentieth centuries, a most relevant contribution to international law came from those legal actors who got their hands dirty with the realities of power and politics. * Matilde Cazzola, Neue Politische Literatur *
This volume makes an interesting foil to the McGuinness and Meerssche volumes (above), for here a team of historians undertakes case studies of the role of legal practitioners in addressing or resolving international crises or conflicts, producing thereby a template for exploring how law and politics have interacted and perhaps legal language and legal arguments have, over time, acquired a role and vitality of their own. * William E. Butler, Jus Gentium *
This book demonstrates how the international order was and is a veritable "historical artefact", literally "crafted" by individuals through the law. * Matilde Cazzola, Neue Politische Literatur *

ISBN: 9780198863830

Dimensions: 241mm x 164mm x 22mm

Weight: 610g

304 pages