community
Overview page. Subjects: Social Sciences — Arts and Humanities.
Many sociological and anthropological definitions exist, but most tend to privilege some combination of small-scale, relative boundedness, strong affective ties, traditionalism, and...
Constitutionalism and Global Governance
in International Law Theories
November 2016; p ublished online January 2017 .
Chapter. Subjects: Public International Law; Jurisprudence and Philosophy of Law. 14744 words.
By emphasizing the role of values in international law and by postulating the emergence of a constitutional organization of the international community, this strand of scholarship shows...
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The External Identity of a Stateless Legal System
in Transnational Legality
January 2014; p ublished online April 2014 .
Chapter. Subjects: Public International Law; Jurisprudence and Philosophy of Law. 16969 words.
This chapter first discusses the international arbitration community's own secondary rules. It then examines the more general idea of secondarity as a determinant of legality. It shows that...
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Unconditional Life
May 2016; p ublished online August 2016 .
Book. Subjects: Public International Law; Jurisprudence and Philosophy of Law. 224 pages.
Drawing on philosophy, history, and critical theory, this book introduces a new perspective on the significance of post-war international law developments. The book examines the public...
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Introduction
in Acoustic Jurisprudence
October 2015; p ublished online November 2015 .
Chapter. Subjects: Public International Law; Jurisprudence and Philosophy of Law. 5341 words.
This chapter introduces the Bikindi case along with the book’s main argument. It suggests that questions of sound and listening have been seriously neglected in contemporary legal...
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Giving Voice
in Acoustic Jurisprudence
October 2015; p ublished online November 2015 .
Chapter. Subjects: Public International Law; Jurisprudence and Philosophy of Law. 13043 words.
This chapter considers how the speaking voice was called upon in court in the Bikindi case. It begins with the ‘solemn declaration’, which it argues is both highly anomalous from an...
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Sovereignty and Positivity
in Sovereignty
March 2019; p ublished online May 2019 .
Chapter. Subjects: Jurisprudence and Philosophy of Law; Public International Law. 5430 words.
This chapter argues that one can glimpse the nature of sovereignty in the ability to positivize the highest legal rules binding on the community. There is no legal positivity for the...
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