The Legal Doctrines of the Rule of Law and the Legal State (Rechtsstaat)

The Legal Doctrines of the Rule of Law and the Legal State (Rechtsstaat)
Author: James R. Silkenat
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 366
Release: 2014-05-28
Genre: Law
ISBN: 3319055852

This book explores the development of both the civil law conception of the Legal State and the common law conception of the Rule of Law. It examines the philosophical and historical background of both concepts, as well as the problem of the interrelation between the two doctrines. The book brings together twenty-five leading scholars from around the world and provides both general and specific jurisdictional perspectives of the issue in both contemporary and historical settings. The Rule of Law is a legal doctrine the meaning of which can only be fully appreciated in the context of both the common law and the European civil law tradition of the Legal State (Rechtsstaat). The Rule of Law and the Legal State are fundamental safeguards of human dignity and of the legitimacy of the state and the authority of state prescriptions.

Essays in the Law

Essays in the Law
Author: Andrew Dickson White
Publisher: Palala Press
Total Pages: 324
Release: 2016-05-25
Genre:
ISBN: 9781359755001

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Peremptory Norms of General International Law (Jus Cogens)

Peremptory Norms of General International Law (Jus Cogens)
Author: Dire Tladi
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 806
Release: 2021-08-16
Genre: Law
ISBN: 9004464123

Peremptory Norms of General International Law (Jus Cogens): Disquisitions and Dispositions is a collection of contributions on various aspects of jus cogens in international law.

The UN Friendly Relations Declaration at 50

The UN Friendly Relations Declaration at 50
Author: Jorge E. ViƱuales
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 1047
Release: 2020-10-08
Genre: Law
ISBN: 1108662307

The year 2020 marks the 75th anniversary of the United Nations Organisation, and the 50th anniversary of the United Nations Friendly Relations Declaration, which states the fundamental principles of the international legal order. In commemoration, some of the world's most prominent international law scholars from all continents have come together to offer a comprehensive study of the fundamental principles of international law. Each chapter in this volume reflects decades of experience, work and reflection by the most authoritative voices of the field. At the same time, the book is an invitation to end narrow specialisation and re-engage with the wider body of rules and processes that lie at the foundations of the international legal order.

State Immunity in International Law

State Immunity in International Law
Author: Xiaodong Yang
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 941
Release: 2012-09-27
Genre: Law
ISBN: 0521844010

Xiaodong Yang examines the issue of jurisdictional immunities of States and their property in foreign domestic courts.

Recognition in International Law

Recognition in International Law
Author: Hersch Lauterpacht
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 505
Release: 2012-11
Genre: Law
ISBN: 1107609437

Originally published by Hersch Lauterpacht in 1947, this book presents a detailed study of recognition in international law, examining its crucial significance in relation to statehood, governments and belligerency. The author develops a strong argument for positioning recognition within the context of international law, reacting against the widely accepted conception of it as an area of international politics. Numerous examples of the use of law and conscious adherence to legal principle in the practice of states are used to give weight to this perspective. This paperback re-issue in 2012 includes a newly commissioned Foreword by James Crawford, Whewell Professor of International Law at the University of Cambridge and a Fellow of Jesus College, Cambridge.

Great Powers and Outlaw States

Great Powers and Outlaw States
Author: Gerry Simpson
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 418
Release: 2004-04-22
Genre: Law
ISBN: 9780521534901

The presence of Great Powers and outlaw states is a central but under-explored feature of international society. In this book, Gerry Simpson describes the ways in which an international legal order based on 'sovereign equality' has accommodated the Great Powers and regulated outlaw states since the beginning of the nineteenth-century. In doing so, the author offers a fresh understanding of sovereignty which he terms juridical sovereignty to show how international law has managed the interplay of three languages: the languages of Great Power prerogative, the language of outlawry (or anti-pluralism) and the language of sovereign equality. The co-existence and interaction of these three languages is traced through a number of moments of institutional transformation in the global order from the Congress of Vienna to the 'war on terrorism'.