Is international law international? / Anthea Roberts.
This text challenges the idea that international law looks the same from anywhere in the world. Instead, how international lawyers understand and approach their field is often deeply influenced by the national contexts in which they lived, studied, and worked. By examining the international law acad...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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New York, NY :
Oxford University Press,
2017.
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| Summary: | This text challenges the idea that international law looks the same from anywhere in the world. Instead, how international lawyers understand and approach their field is often deeply influenced by the national contexts in which they lived, studied, and worked. By examining the international law academies and textbooks of the five permanent members of the UN Security Council, Roberts provides a window into these different communities of international lawyers, and she uncovers some of the similarities and differences in how they understand and approach international law. |
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| Item Description: | Previously issued in print: 2017. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource : illustrations (black and white) |
| Audience: | Specialized. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780190696443 (ebook) |
| DOI: | 10.1093/oso/9780190696412.001.0001 |
| Source of Description, Etc. Note: | Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on September 18, 2017) |