Jurisprudence of International Law

Price: $60.00 150 pages. 1 Hardcover Volume. Bibliography. Index. Published 2000.
ISBN-13: 978-1-929446-10-0 / ISBN-10: 1-929446-10-1

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Book Overview

1   Natural law and humanitarian intervention

• The natural law themes
• The Christian natural law tradition: St. 
• Thomas Aquinas and John Finnis
• Hugo Grotius: international law and humanitarian intervention
• Human(ity's) solidarity
• Peace and human rights
• Social contract theories and humanitarian intervention

2   Positivism and humanitarian intervention

• The concept of sovereignty
• Preserving the purity of law
• International constitutionalism and humanitarian intervention
• The juxtaposition of natural and positive law

3   The policy-oriented school in international law and humanitarian intervention

• The international law premises of the policy school Humanitarian intervention under the criteria of the policy school

4   Critical theory of international law and humanitarian intervention

• Critical theory of international law
• The contradictions of the legal reasoning concerning humanitarian intervention

5   Humanitarian intervention in a legal context: the prohibition on the use of force

• Sovereignty - (non)intervention
• The rule on non-intervention and the UN Charter

6   The protection of nationals as humanitarian action

• The protection of nationals as self-defence The humanitarian character of the actions

7   Redescription: humanitarian intervention in a discursive model of human dignity

• Redescription through a discursive model
• Human dignity in a discursive model
• Redescription of practice
• The promotion of human dignity as dignified existence
• The protection of human dignity and its 'disvalue': Somalia and Kosovo

Epilogue
Select bibliography
Index

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