International Law in Public Debate

Inbunden, Engelska, 2021

AvMadelaine Chiam

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Public debates in the language of international law have occurred across the 20th and 21st centuries and have produced a popular form of international law that matters for international practice. This book analyses the people who used international law and how they used it in debates over Australia's participation in the 2003 Iraq War, the Vietnam War and the First World War. It examines texts such as newspapers, parliamentary debates, public protests and other expressions of public opinion. It argues that these interventions produced a form of international law that shares a vocabulary and grammar with the expert forms of that language and distinct competences in order to be persuasive. This longer history also illustrates a move from the use of international legal language as part of collective justifications to the use of international law as an autonomous justification for state action.

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Utgivningsdatum2021-12-09
Mått158 x 235 x 19 mm
Vikt485 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor234
FörlagCambridge University Press
ISBN9781108499293

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'Rigorous, insightful and an enthralling read - this book could not be more timely. In clear and engaging prose, Chiam highlights the richness and potency of vernacular versions of international law propagated at three fraught historical junctures of the 20th century. In so doing, Chiam cleverly re-wires 21st century worries about the challenges that populism and inequality pose to international law. Rather than imagining these as new and terrible trials for international legal order, this book reminds us that international law has long been popularly generated and generative under conditions of inequality. Even in war, Chiam demonstrates, international legal authority has been far more amenable to collectivization and cutting across prevailing friend-enemy lines than commonly acknowledged. And, Chiam shows, these skills might yet be relearned by international lawyers listening with care to non-native speakers of their discipline.' Fleur Johns, Faculty of Law and Justice, UNSW Sydney