The Law of International Lawyers
Reading Martti Koskenniemi

This book provides original perspectives on the work of one of the most important thinkers in international law today.

Wouter Werner (Edited by), Marieke de Hoon (Edited by), Alexis Galán (Edited by)

9781316643983, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 21 June 2018

442 pages
22.8 x 15.3 x 2.1 cm, 0.67 kg

For decades, Martti Koskenniemi has not just been an influential writer in international law; his work has caused a significant shift in the direction of the field. This book engages with some of the core questions that have animated Koskenniemi's scholarship so far. Its chapters attest to the breadth and depth of Koskenniemi's oeuvre and the different ways in which he has explored these questions. Koskenniemi's work is applied to a wide range of functional areas in international law and discussed in relation to an even broader range of theoretical perspectives, including history, political theory, sociology and international relations theory. These invaluable insights have been expertly brought together by the volume editors, who identify the key and common themes of many of the book's contributions. This volume demonstrates the importance of critical legal scholarship in the ways international law is enacted, shaped and reshaped over time.

Introduction: the law of international lawyers Wouter Werner, Marieke De Hoon and Alexis Galán
1. What moves law? Martti Koskenniemi and transcendence in international law Gregor Noll
2. Formalism, realism and the politics of indeterminacy David Dyzenhaus
3. Settling disputes: a matter of politics and law Nigel D. White
4. Form meets function: the culture of formalism and international environmental regimes Jaye Ellis
5. Martti Koskenniemi on human rights: an empirical perspective Eric A. Posner
6. The rule of law in an agnostic world: the prohibition on the use of force and humanitarian exceptions Jutta Brunnée and Stephen J. Toope
7. The space between us: law, teleology and the new orientalism of counterdisciplinarity Nikolas M. Rajkovic
8. The critical subject Sahib Singh
9. Practicing law: Spoudaios, professional, expert, or 'Macher'? Reflections on the changing nature of an occupation Friedrich Kratochwil
10. Thinking about what international humanitarian lawyers 'do': an examination of the laws of war as a field of professional practice Frédéric Mégret
11. International law and the limits of history Anne Orford
12. Even the dead will not be safe: international law and the struggle over tradition Andrew Lang and Susan Marks
13. Martti Koskenniemi and the historiography of international law in the age of the war on terror Samuel Moyn
14. Martti Koskenniemi's critique of Eurocentrism in international law Liliana Obregón
Epilogue: to enable and enchant: epilogue on the power of law Martti Koskenniemi.

Subject Areas: Public international law [LBB], Jurisprudence & philosophy of law [LAB], History of ideas [JFCX], General & world history [HBG]