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This edited volume features contributions by scholars from around the world, from different generations and with different critical perspectives. It thus reflects the vibrancy of contemporary critical debates cabined in three sub-streams: Postrealism, Postcolonialism and Transnationalism. It addresses themes such as the history of international law, policy approach, customary law, human rights, international courts and tribunals among others. Prabhakar Singh is President`s Graduate Fellow and Associate, Centre for International Law, Faculty of law, National University of Singapore. Benoît Mayer is a Ph.D. candidate and research scholar, National University of Singapore, Faculty of Law.
Key Features:
The volume brings together scholars from around the world with panache for re-reading international law
It deals with both theory of international law and issues of interpretation
It addresses themes such as the history of international law, policy approach, customary law, human rights, international courts and tribunals, international bureaucracy and investment law and constitutional approach to international law
Editors and contributors come from common law and civil law backgrounds
Table of Contents:
Acknowledgements
Foreword by Simon Chesterman
Thinking International Law Critically: One Attitude, Three Perspectives (Prabhakar Singh and Benoît Mayer)
Section IPostrealism
Descendants of Realism? Policy-oriented International Lawyers as Guardians of Democracy (Hengameh Saberi)
Riddles of the Sands: Time, Power and Legitimacy in International Law (John R. Morss)
The Welfarist Approach to International Law: An Appraisal (Rossana Deplano)
Revisiting the Role of the International Courts and Tribunals? (Prabhakar Singh)
Section IIPostcolonialism
Towards a Post-colonial International Law (Antony Anghie)
A Universal History of Infamy: Human Rights, Eurocentrism and Modernity as Crisis (José-Manuel Barreto)
`Suffering` the Paradox of Rights? Critical Subaltern Historiography and the Genealogy of Empathy (Mark Toufayan)
The `Magic Circle` of Rights Holders: Human Rights` Outsiders (Benoît Mayer)
Section IIITransnationalism
The Rise and Fall of `International Man` (Frédéric Mégret)
The Human Right to Water as a `Creature` of Global Administrative Law (Owen McIntyre)
Of Precedents and Ideology: Law-making by Investment Arbitration Tribunals (Rene Urueña)
Constitutionalism and Pluralism: Two Ways of Looking at Internationalism (Prabhakar Singh and Sonja Kübler)
Afterword
What`s Critical about Critical International Law? Reflections on the Emancipatory Potential of International Legal Scholarship (Sébastien Jodoin and Katherine Lofts)
IndexISBN - 9780199450633
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Pages : 380
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