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Human dignity and the foundations of international law /

International lawyers have often been interested in the link between their discipline and the foundational issues of jurisprudential method, but little that is systematic has been written on this subject. In this book, an attempt is made to fill this gap by focusing on issues of concept-formation in...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Capps, Patrick
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Oxford ; Portland, Or. : Hart, 2009.
Series:Studies in international law (Oxford, England) ; v. 23.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Philosophical problems for international lawyers
  • The methodological problem
  • The conceptual analysis of international law
  • Focal analysis and ideal-types
  • Practical reasonableness and human dignity
  • The logic of the autonomy thesis
  • Law as a general concept
  • The foundations of the international legal order
  • The discontinuity thesis
  • International legal order in ideal and non-ideal theory.