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International Law In Domestic Courts: A Conflict Of Laws Approach, Karen Knop, Ralf Michaels, Annelise Riles
International Law In Domestic Courts: A Conflict Of Laws Approach, Karen Knop, Ralf Michaels, Annelise Riles
Cornell Law Faculty Publications
The relationship between international law and domestic law is rarely understood as a conflict of laws. Understanding it in this way opens up a parallel with the field of conflict of laws: the field for which the relationship between legal systems, especially the role of another system's jurisdiction, laws, and judgments vis-à-vis the domestic legal system, are exactly the bread-and-butter issues. We argue for such an approach to international law in domestic courts: an approach that we elaborate as "theory through technique."
In our view, conflicts should be seen broadly as the discipline that developed to deal with conflicts between …
On The Very Idea Of Transitional Justice, Jens David Ohlin
On The Very Idea Of Transitional Justice, Jens David Ohlin
Cornell Law Faculty Publications
The phrase "transitional justice" has had an amazingly successful career at an early age. Popularized as an academic concept in the early 1990s in the aftermath of apartheid's collapse in South Africa, the phrase quickly gained traction in a variety of global contexts, including Rwanda, Yugoslavia, Cambodia, and Sierra Leone. A sizeable literature has been generated around it, so much so that one might even call it a sub-discipline with inter-disciplinary qualities. Nonetheless, the concept remains an enigma. It defines the contours of an entire field of intellectual inquiry, yet at the same time it hides more than it illuminates. …
The Persistent Problem Of Obligation In International Law, Eduardo M. Peñalver
The Persistent Problem Of Obligation In International Law, Eduardo M. Peñalver
Cornell Law Faculty Publications
Critical Race Theory And Postcolonial Development Theory: Observations On Methodology, Chantal Thomas
Critical Race Theory And Postcolonial Development Theory: Observations On Methodology, Chantal Thomas
Cornell Law Faculty Publications
No abstract provided.
Models And Documents: Artefacts Of International Legal Knowledge, Annelise Riles
Models And Documents: Artefacts Of International Legal Knowledge, Annelise Riles
Cornell Law Faculty Publications
This article draws upon one year of ethnographic research at United Nations conferences to challenge some common academic assumptions about what it means to "do" international law. The article compares the work of academic international lawyers - founded in making models of an international system - to the work of practitioners - exemplified by the work of making documents, and demonstrates the particular, peculiar nature of each kind of knowledge, from the point of view of the observer. This leads to a set of conclusions concerning how an academic study of international law influenced by an appreciation of the particularity …
Infinity Within The Brackets, Annelise Riles
Infinity Within The Brackets, Annelise Riles
Cornell Law Faculty Publications
The ethnographic subjects of this article are UN-sponsored international conferences and their legal documents. Drawing upon fieldwork among Fiji delegates at these conferences, in this article I demonstrate the centrality of matters of form, as distinct from questions of “meaning,” in the negotiation of international agreements. A parallel usage of documents and of mats among Fijian negotiators provides a heuristic device for exploring questions of pattern and scale in the aesthetics of negotiation.
The View From The International Plane: Perspective And Scale In The Architecture Of Colonial International Law, Annelise Riles
The View From The International Plane: Perspective And Scale In The Architecture Of Colonial International Law, Annelise Riles
Cornell Law Faculty Publications
No abstract provided.