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Empire Has Its Own Hurdles: Exploring The Nature Of Exceptionalism And Its Consequences For International Law And Multilateral Decision-Making, Saptarishi Bandopadhyay Sep 2006

Empire Has Its Own Hurdles: Exploring The Nature Of Exceptionalism And Its Consequences For International Law And Multilateral Decision-Making, Saptarishi Bandopadhyay

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While it is increasingly becoming a platitude that exceptionalism exists in international law, little is being said about the nature, degrees of this exceptionalism and their differential consequences on the international legal system.

In my effort to bridge what I see as an oversight, this paper will seek to show how contemporary exceptionalist practices are creating a fault in the international legal order which will in turn provide a basis for others to argue for an overall reformulation of rules i.e. actions in contravention of the multilateral international legal framework would no longer need to be justified by manipulative rule …