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Beyond Compliance: Rethinking Why International Law Really Matters, Robert Howse, Ruti G. Teitel
Beyond Compliance: Rethinking Why International Law Really Matters, Robert Howse, Ruti G. Teitel
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The conceptual, and more recently empirical, study of compliance has become a central preoccupation, and perhaps the fastest growing sub-field, in international legal scholarship. The authors seek to put in question this trend. They argue that looking at the aspirations of international law through the lens of rule-compliance leads to inadequate scrutiny and understanding of the diverse complex purposes and projects that multiple actors impose and transpose on international legality, and especially a tendency to oversimplify if not distort the relation of international law to politics. Citing a range of examples from different areas of internationallaw-ranging widely from international trade …
Delphic Dictum: How Has The Icj Contributed To The Global Rule Of Law By Its Ruling On Kovoso Kosovo In The Icj - The Case, Robert Howse, Ruti Teitel
Delphic Dictum: How Has The Icj Contributed To The Global Rule Of Law By Its Ruling On Kovoso Kosovo In The Icj - The Case, Robert Howse, Ruti Teitel
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A Bittersweet Heritage: Learning From The Making Of South African Legal Culture, Stephen Ellmann
A Bittersweet Heritage: Learning From The Making Of South African Legal Culture, Stephen Ellmann
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This essay responds to Martin Chanock's argument that race tainted the entire enterprise of South African judging. It seeks to understand how that could have been so, and looks to such driving forces as whites' guilt, denial, identity-building, self-protection, and legitimation for explanations. Then it asks whether an institution so tainted should now be altogether abandoned as part of the rebuilding of post-apartheid South Africa. The essay answers that much should be changed, but that the existence of a judiciary laying claim to a special expertise and responsibility in interpreting law and protecting rights a key heritage of the old …