Unity and pluralism in public international law /

Unity and pluralism in public international law / / Oriol Casanovas.

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Superior document:Developments in International Law ; 39
VerfasserIn:
Casanovas y La Rosa, Oriol,
Place / Publishing House:The Hague, The Netherlands ;, New York ;, London : : Nijhoff Publishers,, [2001]
©2001
Year of Publication:2001
Language:English
Spanish
Series:Developments in International Law ; 39.
Physical Description:1 online resource.
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Table of Contents:
  • Intro
  • Title Page
  • Copyright Page
  • TABLE OF CONTENTS
  • ABBREVIATIONS
  • INTRODUCTORY NOTE
  • PART 1 THE LEGAL STRUCTURE OF PUBLIC INTERNATIONAL LAW
  • I PUBLIC INTERNATIONAL LAW AS A LEGAL SYSTEM
  • 1 Introduction: the origins of Public International Law
  • 2 The debate concerning the legal character of Public International Law
  • a) The doctrine of normativism
  • b) The sociological approach
  • c) Other positions
  • 3 Law as a complex system of rules
  • a) The regulation of conflicts of interests
  • b) "Primary" and "secondary" rules
  • c) Legal rules, rules of morality, social usages and rules of games
  • 4 Theoretical approaches and paradigms
  • a) Voluntarism
  • b) Objectivism
  • c) The critical approach
  • II UNIVERSALITY AND PARTICULARISM IN INTERNATIONAL CUSTOM
  • 1 The significance of international custom
  • 2 Doctrinal conceptions
  • a) Voluntarist perspective
  • b) Normativist approach
  • 3 The material element: universality and generality of practice
  • a) Regional custom and bilateral or local custom
  • b) The perspective of opposability
  • c) The problem of the persistent objector
  • 4 The unity of the system and the surmounting of pluralism
  • 5 Multilateral conventions and resolutions of intergovernmental organisations: the codification of international custom
  • 6 Social change and legal change
  • 7 The spriritual element
  • a) Difficulty of proof
  • b) The paradox of the initial act
  • c) The need of proof of the opinio iuris
  • 8 Other approaches relating to international custom
  • a) The nature of the rule relative to custom as a rule of recognition
  • b) The Critical Legal Studies' perspective of international custom
  • III INTERNATIONAL TREATIES AND MATERIAL INTERNATIONAL REGIMES
  • 1 International treaties as a "source": annalytical approaches
  • 2 The notion of the international treaty.
  • 3 Particular International Law and "material international regimes
  • 4 Typology proposal of material international regimes
  • 5 The unity of the international legal system and rule subsystems
  • 6 Conflicts between treaties
  • 7 International treaties and ius cogens rules
  • IV THE OPEN STRUCTURE OF PuBLIC INTERNATIONAL LAW
  • 1 Characteristics of international obligations
  • a) Non requirement
  • b) Behavioural obligations and obligations of outcome
  • c) "Soft Law" and non-legal obligations
  • d) Rules and standards
  • 2 The interpretation of international rules
  • a) Interpretation moments and interpretation patterns
  • b) Interpretation and judicial decisions
  • 3 Lacunae in Public International Law
  • a) Types of Lacunae
  • b) Ways to prevent lacunae
  • c) Lacunae and judicial decision
  • 4 The general principles of Law
  • a) The nature of the rule relative to the general principles of Law
  • b) Principles of Law and legal principles
  • c) General principles of Law and a new Law of Peoples
  • PART 2 THE EVOLVING INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY
  • V STATES AND INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS
  • 1 International personality: approaches
  • 2 States as subjects of Public International Law
  • 3 State sovereignty and International Law
  • 4 The international community
  • a) The "realist" denial of the international community
  • b) The significance of the international community
  • 5 International organizations as subjects of International Law
  • 6 Other subjects of International Law
  • VI SELF-DETERMINATION OF PEOPLES AND SOCIAL PLURALISM
  • 1 The meaning of the right to self-determination of peoples
  • 2 The evolution of the principle in the United Nations
  • a) Political principle
  • b) The colonial peoples right
  • c) Human right
  • d) Self-determination and secession
  • 3 Current problems
  • a) Rights of minorities
  • b) Rights of indigenous peoples.
  • c) The rights of groups
  • 4 Self-determination, social and political pluralism
  • VII THE HUMAN PERSON IN INTERNATIONAL LAW
  • 1 The human person, international personality and the question of the unity of International Law
  • 2 International treaties for the protection of human rights and the objective character of their obligations
  • 3 The question of the universality of human rights
  • 4 The fundamental rules of humanitarian International Law
  • 5 The legal dimension of human rights as an international concern
  • 6 The international rules of protection of human rights and their legal nature
  • a) Customary obligations
  • b) "Authorised" interpretation of the Charter
  • c) Basis as general principles of Law
  • 7 International community and Humanity
  • PART 3 THE FUNCTIONS OF PUBLIC INTERNATIONAL LAW
  • VIII STATE LEGAL POWERS AND COMMON INTERESTS
  • 1 Functions of Public International Law: co-existence and cooperation
  • 2 The doctrine of compétences in legal theory and in Public International Law
  • 3 Territorial power: title and effectivity
  • 4 Maritime frontiers, powers and interests of States
  • 5 Common areas and resources
  • 6 Common Heritage of Mankind and Globalization
  • IX INTERNATIONAL RESPONSABILITY: PLURALITY OF INTERNATIONAL RÉGIMES
  • 1 International responsability: doctrinal perspectives
  • 2 Codification of the Law of international responsability
  • 3 Origin of responsability
  • a) Unlawfulness and wrongfulness
  • b) Internationally wrongful acts: the question of damage
  • c) International crimes or serious breaches of obligations to the international community?
  • 4 The notion of injured State
  • 5 The consequences of an internationally wrongful act
  • 6 Self-contained regimes of responsibility
  • 7 The question of international responsibility for ultra-hazardous activities or absolute responsability.
  • 8 Crimes against the peace and security of Mankind
  • X THE PACIFIC SETTLEMENT OF DISPUTES AND THE MULTIPLICITY OF INTERNATIONAL COURTS
  • 1 The principle of pacific settlement of disputes and international adjudication
  • 2 The International Court of Justice as a judicial organ with voluntary jurisdiction
  • 3 Evolution of the activity of the International Court of Justice
  • 4 The distinction between political and legal disputes revisited
  • 5 The International Court of Justice and the Security Council resolutions
  • 6 The multiplicity of international judicial organs and the question of the unity of the international legal order
  • a) The International Center for the Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID)
  • b) The International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea
  • c) The WTO Dispute Settlement Body
  • d) The international criminal tribunals
  • 7 Other international tribunals in the regional sphere
  • a) The European Court of Human Rights
  • b) The Court of Justice of the European Communities
  • 9 Multiplicity of judicial organs, legal pluralism and the unity of Public International Law
  • CONCLUSION
  • SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
  • TABLE OF CASES
  • AUTHOR INDEX
  • SUBJECT INDEX.

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