The Battle for International Law: South-North Perspectives on the Decolonization Era Jochen Von Bernstorff And Philipp Dann

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• ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 019884963X
• ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0198849636
• Author(s): Jochen von Bernstorff and Philipp Dann

This volume provides the first comprehensive analysis of international legal debates between 1955 and 1975 related to the formal decolonization process. It is during this era, couched between classic European imperialism and a new form of US-led Western hegemony, that fundamental legal debates took place over a new international legal order for a decolonised world. The book argues that this era presents in essence a battle, a battle that was fought out in particular over the premises and principles of international law by diplomats, lawyers, and scholars. In a moment of relative weakness of European powers, ‘newly independent states’ and international lawyers from the South fundamentally challenged traditional Western perceptions of international legal structures engaging in fundamental controversies over a new international law. The legal outcomes of this battle have shaped the world we live in today.

Table contents:

A. Concepts—Kampfbegriffe
1. The Common Heritage of Mankind: Annotations on a Battle
2. The Battle for the Recognition of Wars of National Liberation
3. The Developmental State: Independence, Dependency, and the History of the South
4. Colonial Fragments: Decolonization, Concessions, and Acquired Rights
5. Acquired Rights and State Succession: The Rise and Fall of the Third World in the International Law Commission
6. Rival Worlds and the Place of the Corporation in International Law
7. The Battle Continues: Rebuilding Empire through Internationalization of State Contracts
8. (De)colonizing Human Rights
9. Picking Battles: Race, Decolonization, and Apartheid
B. Institutions
10. The International Court of Justice During the Battle for International Law (1955–1975): Colonial Imprints and Possibilities for Change
11. A Battlefield Transformed: The United Nations and the Struggle over Postcolonial Statehood
12. The World Bank in the Battles of the ‘Decolonization Era’

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