Spaces of Law and Custom

Spaces of Law and Custom
Author: Edoardo Frezet
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 283
Release: 2021-07-14
Genre: Law
ISBN: 1000406458

This collection brings together a carefully curated selection of researchers from law, sociology, anthropology, philosophy, history, social ontology and international relations, in order to examine how law and custom interact within specific material and spatial contexts. Normativity develops within these contexts, while also shaping them. This complex relationship exists within all physical places from traditional agrarian spaces to the modern shifting post-industrial workplace. The contributions gathered together in this volume explore numerous examples of such spaces from different disciplinary perspectives to interrogate the dynamic relationship between custom and law, and the material spaces they inhabit. While there are a dynamic series of conclusions regarding this relationship in different material realities, a common theme is pursued throughout: a proper understanding of law and custom stems from their material locatedness within the power dynamics of particular spaces, which, in turn, are reflexively shaped by that same normativity. The book thus generates an account of the locatedness of law and custom, and, indeed, of custom as a source of law. In this way, it provides a series of linked explorations of normative spaces, but, more fundamentally, it also furnishes a cross-disciplinary toolkit of concepts and critical tools for understanding law and custom, and their relationship. As the diversity of the contributors indicates, this book will be of great interest to legal theorists of different traditions, also legal historians and anthropologists, as well as sociologists, historians, geographers and developmental economists.

Customary International Law in Times of Fundamental Change

Customary International Law in Times of Fundamental Change
Author: Michael P. Scharf
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 241
Release: 2013-05-31
Genre: Law
ISBN: 1107276764

This is the first book to explore the concept of 'Grotian Moments'. Named for Hugo Grotius, whose masterpiece De jure belli ac pacis helped marshal in the modern system of international law, Grotian Moments are transformative developments that generate the unique conditions for accelerated formation of customary international law. In periods of fundamental change, whether by technological advances, the commission of new forms of crimes against humanity, or the development of new means of warfare or terrorism, customary international law may form much more rapidly and with less state practice than is normally the case to keep up with the pace of developments. The book examines the historic underpinnings of the Grotian Moment concept, provides a theoretical framework for testing its existence and application, and analyzes six case studies of potential Grotian Moments: Nuremberg, the continental shelf, space law, the Yugoslavia Tribunal's Tadic decision, the 1999 NATO intervention in Serbia and the 9/11 terrorist attacks.

The European Union and Customary International Law

The European Union and Customary International Law
Author: Fernando Lusa Bordin
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 337
Release: 2022-11-03
Genre: Law
ISBN: 1108832970

The book offers a systematic discussion of the facets of the relationship between the European Union and customary international law.

Reexamining Customary International Law

Reexamining Customary International Law
Author: Brian D. Lepard
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages:
Release: 2017-02-16
Genre: Law
ISBN: 1108107931

Reexamining Customary International Law takes on the complex issues and controversies surrounding the history, theory, and practice of customary international law as it reexamines customary law's increasingly important role in world affairs. It incorporates the expertise of distinguished authors to probe many difficult issues that remain unresolved concerning the doctrine of customary law. At the same time, this book engages in a profound exploration of the practical role of customary international law in a variety of important fields, including humanitarian law, human rights law, and air and space law.

Customary International Law

Customary International Law
Author: Brian D. Lepard
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 441
Release: 2010-01-11
Genre: Law
ISBN: 052119136X

This book sets out to articulate a comprehensive theory of customary international law that can effectively resolve the conceptual and practical enigmas surrounding it. It takes a multidisciplinary approach and draws insights from international law, legal theory, political science, and game theory. It is anchored in a sophisticated ethical framework and explores the interrelationships between customary international law and ethics.

Law and Custom in Korea

Law and Custom in Korea
Author: Marie Seong-Hak Kim
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 365
Release: 2012-08-27
Genre: History
ISBN: 110700697X

Sets forth the evolution of Korea's law and legal system from the Chosǒn dynasty through the colonial and postcolonial modern periods.

Space Law

Space Law
Author: Francis Lyall
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 590
Release: 2017-12-14
Genre: Law
ISBN: 1317051939

Francis Lyall and Paul B. Larsen have been involved in teaching and researching space law for over 50 years. This new edition of their well-received text gathers together their knowledge and experience in readable form, and covers developments in all space applications, including space tourism, telecommunications, the ITU and finance. With an extensive citation of the literature, the discussion provides an excellent source for both students and practitioners.

The Use of Air and Outer Space Cooperation and Competition

The Use of Air and Outer Space Cooperation and Competition
Author: Chia-Jui Cheng
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 472
Release: 2023-12-11
Genre: Law
ISBN: 9004642013

The Proceedings of the Conferences on Air and Space Law, organized in Asia by the Asian Institute of Air and Space Law, are establishing themselves as a major source of up-to-date and thought-provoking literature on the latest international developments. The organizers have again succeeded in attracting the most influential and provocative contributors, and their well-edited papers make a significant addition to the worldwide discussions on the vital question of the use of Air and Outer Space.

Handbook on Space, Place and Law

Handbook on Space, Place and Law
Author: Robyn Bartel
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Total Pages: 448
Release: 2021-04-30
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1788977203

This innovative Handbook provides an expansive interrogation of the spaces and places of law, exploring how we engage relationally in a material world, within which we are inter-dependent and reliant, and governed by laws in a dynamic process. It advances novel insights into the numerous intersections of space, place and law in our lives.