Repetition and international law / Wouter Werner, Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, University of Curaçao.
2022
KZ1285.5 .W47 2022 (Mapit)
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Title
Repetition and international law / Wouter Werner, Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, University of Curaçao.
Imprint
Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2022.
Copyright
©2022
Description
ix, 184 pages ; 24 cm.
Series
Cambridge studies in international and comparative law (Cambridge, England : 1996) ; 162.
Formatted Contents Note
The eternal return of not quite the same : repetition and the sources of international law
The law of receding origins : repetition and the identification of customary international law
"Once upon a time, there was a story that began" : repetition in Security Council resolutions
Say that again, please : repetition in the Tallinn manual
Rehearsing rehearsing : repetition in international moot court competitions
The unimaginable on screen : repetition in documentary films on trauma and atrocities.
The law of receding origins : repetition and the identification of customary international law
"Once upon a time, there was a story that began" : repetition in Security Council resolutions
Say that again, please : repetition in the Tallinn manual
Rehearsing rehearsing : repetition in international moot court competitions
The unimaginable on screen : repetition in documentary films on trauma and atrocities.
Summary
"Chapter one starts from my embarrassment when teaching sources of international law. Following conventional wisdom, I inform students that international law is grounded on a limited set of sources. However, at some point, I also have to explain that it is possible for new sources of international law to emerge. How is this possible, given that international law is grounded on a limited set of sources? I try to deal with this uneasiness by comparing discourses on sources to rituals that prevail in what I call 'cyclical societies,' organized around the belief in the eternal return of transcendental ideas, acts or events. To apply sources, I argue, is to perform a double act of repetition. First, historically contingent events are turned into manifestations of pregiven and repeatable categories. Second, sources are used as placeholders for something that will always escape positive international law: the foundational categories that underlie the sources of law. These foundational categories, I argue, work somewhat like celestial Gods in cyclical societies: Most of the time they stay dormant and aloof, but they can always be called upon in exceptional times"-- Provided by publisher.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 168-181) and index.
Available in Other Form
Online version: Werner, W. G. (Wouter G.), 1966- Repetition and international law. Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2022
Call Number
KZ1285.5 .W47 2022
Language
English
ISBN
9781316510780 (hardback)
1316510786 (hardback)
9781009018333 (paperback)
1009018337 (paperback)
9781009039666 (epub)
1316510786 (hardback)
9781009018333 (paperback)
1009018337 (paperback)
9781009039666 (epub)
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