The Battle for International Law

CONTENIDO

Introduction
The Battle for International Law: A Sketch, Jochen von Bernstorff and Philipp Dann
Part I: Sites of Battle
A. Concepts – Kampfbegriffe
1. The Common Heritage of Mankind: Annotations on a Battle, Surabhi Ranganathan
2. The Battle for the Recognition of Wars of National Liberation, Jochen von Bernstorff
3. The Developmental State: Independence, Dependency and the History of the South, Luis Eslava
4. Colonial Fragments: Decolonisation, Concessions and Acquired Rights, Matthew Craven
5. Acquired Rights and State Succession – The Rise and Fall of the Third World in the International Law Commission, Anna Brunner
6. Rival Worlds and the Place of the Corporation in International law, Subhya Pahuja and Anna Saunders
7. The Battle Continues: Rebuilding Empire through Internationalization of State Contracts, Muthucumaraswamy Sornarajah
8. (De)colonizing Human Rights, Florian Hoffmann and Bethania Assy
9. Picking Battles: Race, Decolonization, and Apartheid, Rotem Giladi
B. Institutions
10. The International Court of Justice During the Battle for International Law (1955-1975)-Colonial Imprints and Possibilities for Change, Ingo Venzke
11. The Battle and the United Nations, Guy Sinclair
12. The World Bank in the Battles of the ‘Decolonization Era’, Philipp Dann
Part II Individual Protagonists and Regional Perspectives
A. Individual Protagonists
13. Reading R.P. Anand in the Postcolony: Between Resistance and Appropriation, Prabhakar Singh
14. Taslim Olawale Elias: From British Colonial Law to Modern International Law, Carl Landauer
15. Determining New Selves: Mohammed Bedjaoui on Algeria, Western Sahara, and Post-Classical International Law, Umut Ozsu
16. Charles Chaumont’s Third World International Legal Theory, Emamanuelle Tourme Jouannet
B. Regional Perspectives
17. Literal ‘Decolonisation’: Re-reading African International Legal Scholarship through the African Novel, Christopher Gevers
18. The Soviets and the Right to Self-Determination of the Colonized: Contradictions of Soviet Diplomacy and Foreign Policy in the Era of Decolonization, Bill Bowring
19. The Failed Battle for Self-Determination: The United States and the Postwar Illusion of Enlightened Colonialism, 1945-1975, Olivier Barsalou
Epilogue
What’s Law Got to Do with it? Recollections, Impressions, Martti Koskenniemi

AUTORES

Jochen von Bernstorff is currently the Dean of the Tubingen Law Faculty (since 2018), holds the Chair for Constitutional law, International Law and Human Rights (since 2011), and has taught international law as a visiting professor at the German Federal Foreign Office Academy Berlin, Universite Pantheon-Assas (institut des hautes etudes internationales), Universite Aix-Marseille and National Taiwan University Taipei. He has acted as a consultant for the German Government and various UN-institutions on human rights, development and international environmental law issues.

Philipp Dann holds the Chair of Public and Comparative Law at Humboldt University Berlin (since 2014) and is principal investigator in the Cluster of Excellence ‘Contestations of the Liberal Script’ (since 2019). He holds degrees from Frankfurt University (PhD and post-doctoral Habilitation) and Harvard Law School (LL.M.) and has taught German, European and public international law in Germany, France, India, Kenya, the Sudan and the US.

Contributors:

Assistant Editor: Max Henry Mayer

Max Henry Mayer is academic staff and Ph.D-candidate at the Chair for Constitutional law, International Law and Human Rights at Tubingen University, held by Prof. Dr. Jochen von Bernstorff. He has studied Law at the Universities of Heidelberg, Geneva, San Diego and Tubingen and has received his Law degree (1st State Exam) from Tubingen University in 2015. His thesis is concerned with the theory and history of customary international law.

Bethania Assy
Olivier Barsalou
Jochen von Bernstorff
Bill Bowring
Anna Brunner
Matthew Craven
Philipp Dann
Luis Eslava
Christopher Gevers
Rotem Giladi
Florian Hoffmann
Martti Koskenniemi
Carl Landauer
Umut Ozsu
Subhya Pahuja
Surabhi Ranganathan
Anna Saunders
Guy Sinclair
Prabhakar Singh
Muthucumaraswamy Sornarajah
Emamanuelle Tourme Jouannet
Ingo Venzke