Lawyers and the Construction of Transnational Justice

Lawyers and the Construction of Transnational Justice
Author: YVES DEZALAY
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 347
Release: 2013-03-01
Genre: Law
ISBN: 1136643850

Lawyers and the Construction of Transnational Justice examines the people, the conflicts, and the mechanisms involved in producing transnational norms and institutions.

Dealing in Virtue

Dealing in Virtue
Author: Yves Dezalay
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Total Pages: 364
Release: 1996
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9780226144238

With examples from England, the United States, Sweden, Egypt, Hong Kong, and many other countries, Dezalay and Garth explore how international developments in turn transform domestic methods for handling disputes. Finally, they analyze the changing prospects for international business dispute resolution given the growing presence of international market and regulatory institutions such as the EEC, NAFTA, and the World Trade Organization.

The Ghostwriters

The Ghostwriters
Author: Tommaso Pavone
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 391
Release: 2022-04-07
Genre: Law
ISBN: 1009084445

The European Union is often depicted as a cradle of judicial activism and a polity built by courts. Tommaso Pavone shows how this judge-centric narrative conceals a crucial arena for political action. Beneath the radar, Europe's political development unfolded as a struggle between judges who resisted European law and lawyers who pushed them to embrace change. Under the sheepskin of rights-conscious litigants and activist courts, these “Euro-lawyers” sought clients willing to break state laws conflicting with European law, lobbied national judges to uphold European rules, and propelled them to submit noncompliance cases to the European Union's supreme court – the European Court of Justice – by ghostwriting their referrals. By shadowing lawyers who encourage deliberate law-breaking and mobilize courts against their own governments, The Ghostwriters overturns the conventional wisdom regarding the judicial construction of Europe and illuminates how the politics of lawyers can profoundly impact institutional change and transnational governance.

The Thin Justice of International Law

The Thin Justice of International Law
Author: Steven R. Ratner
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Total Pages: 497
Release: 2015
Genre: Law
ISBN: 0198704046

Offering a new interdisciplinary approach to global justice and integrating the insights of international relations and contemporary ethics, this book asks whether the core norms of international law are just by appraising them according to a standard of global justice grounded in the advancement of peace and protection of human rights.

Routledge Handbook of International Political Sociology

Routledge Handbook of International Political Sociology
Author: Xavier Guillaume
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 414
Release: 2016-12
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 1315446472

11 Citizenship and an international political sociology -- 12 Advancing 'development' through an IPS approach -- 13 The global environment -- 14 Finance -- 15 Feminist international political sociology - international political sociology feminism -- 16 Global elites -- 17 Global governance -- 18 Health, medicine and the bio-sciences -- 19 Mobilization -- 20 Mobility -- 21 Straddling national and international politics: revisiting the secular assumptions -- 22 Reflexive sociology and international political economy -- 23 Security studies

Comparative Law

Comparative Law
Author: Mathias Siems
Publisher: Law in Context
Total Pages: 531
Release: 2018-04-12
Genre: Law
ISBN: 1107182417

The most up-to-date and contextualised offering for comparative law students and scholars, referencing the newest research in the field.

Human Rights as Political Imaginary

Human Rights as Political Imaginary
Author: José Julián López
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 476
Release: 2018-04-13
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 3319742744

In this book, López proposes the ‘political imaginary’ model as a tool to better understand what human rights are in practice, and what they might, or might not, be able to achieve. Human rights are conceptualised as assemblages of relatively stable, but not unchanging, historically situated, and socially embedded practices. Drawing on an emerging iconoclastic historiography of human rights, the author provides a sympathetic yet critical overview of the field of the sociology of human rights. The book addresses debates regarding sociology’s relationships to human rights, the strengths and limits of the notion of practice, human rights’ affinity to postnational citizenship and cosmopolitism, and human rights’ curious, yet fateful, entanglement with the law. Human Rights as Political Imaginary will be of interest to students and scholars across a range of disciplines, including sociology, politics, international relations and criminology.

The Justice Factory

The Justice Factory
Author: Richard Clements
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 363
Release: 2023-12-31
Genre: Law
ISBN: 1009182455

Spend time at the International Criminal Court, and you will hear the familiar language of anti-impunity. Spend longer, and you will encounter the less familiar language of management – efficiency, risk, and performance, and tools of strategic planning, audit, and performance appraisal. How have these two languages fused within the primary institution of global justice? This book explores that question through an historical and conceptually layered account of management's effects on the ICC's global justice project. It historicises management, forcing international lawyers to look at the sites of struggle – from the plantation to the United Nations – that have shaped the court's managerial present. It traces the court's macro, micro and meso scales of management, showing how such practices have fashioned a vision of global justice at organisational, professional, and argumentative levels. And it asks how those who care about global justice might engage with managerial justice at an institution animated by forms, reforms, and the promise of optimisation.