- Description
- 1 online resource (554 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).
- Summary
- One of the most complex doctrines in contemporary international law, jus cogens is the immediate product of the socialization of the international community following the Second World War. However, the doctrine resonates in a centuries-old legal tradition which constrains the dynamics of voluntarism that characterize conventional international law. To reconcile this modern iteration of individual-oriented public order norms with the traditionally State-based form of international law, Thomas Weatherall applies the idea of a social contract to structure the analysis of jus cogens into four areas: authority, sources, content and enforcement. The legal and political implications of this analysis give form to jus cogens as the product of interrelation across an individual-oriented normative framework, a State-based legal order, and values common to the international community as a whole.
- Subject
- Jus cogens (International law)
- Note
- Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 16 May 2016).
- OCLC
- CR9781139976664
- Author
Weatherall, Thomas, author.
- Title
Jus Cogens : International Law and Social Contract / Thomas Weatherall.
- Publisher
Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2015.
- Type of Content
text
- Type of Medium
computer
- Type of Carrier
online resource
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- Other Form:
Print version: 9781107081765