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Robert Cover And International Law—Narrative Nudges And Nomadic Nomos, Larry Catá Backer
Robert Cover And International Law—Narrative Nudges And Nomadic Nomos, Larry Catá Backer
Touro Law Review
What was once understood as a unified field of international law, emerging from the state system and centered on the rationalization of the relations among public authorities has fractured. What had been the expression of a unified narrative of the organization of human society around the allocation of political authority now searches for new bases for authority as states become market actors, market actors assume governmental authority, markets define the territories within which law is made and applied, and the normative proscriptions of traditional law are quantified and data driven. This essay considers the way that Robert Cover’s insights on …