Self-Determination of Peoples: A Legal Reappraisal: 12 (Hersch Lauterpacht Memorial Lectures, Series Number 12) - Softcover

Cassese, Antonio

Softcover

ISBN 10: 052163752X ISBN 13: 9780521637527

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2008

Synopsis

The self-determination of peoples is a major issue in the world community: both radical and subversive, it serves to grant statehood to oppressed peoples, but also to disrupt existing State structures. This book, the first comprehensive legal account, sets out to trace how this political ideal has turned into an international legal standard. Scrutinising State practice through national digests and UN proceedings the author pinpoints the limits within which this political postulate has gained a foothold in the body of international law and assesses the extent to which it has had an impact on existing legal norms. This is primarily a legal inquiry which, however, looks at law within its historical and political context and, given its judicial underpinning, makes an important contribution to the study of the interplay of law, history, and politics in international relations.

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Review:

'Overall, this is one of the most comprehensive and useful modern studies of the principle of self-determination in international law'. ASIL Journal

Book Description:

This book traces how the political ideal of self-determination has turned into an international legal standard, assessing its impact on existing legal norms through scrutiny of State practice as shown in national digests and UN proceedings. This primarily legal inquiry looks at law within its historical and political context, illuminating the interplay of law and politics.

About this edition

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 2008
• ISBN 10: 052163752X
• ISBN 13: 9780521637527
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 396