Synopses & Reviews
This contributed volume provides a unique reflection on the historic impact and contemporary relevance of the New Approaches to International Law (NAIL) movement within the European and the American contexts. As a tribute to David Kennedy's career, it contains most interesting contributions made by some of his disciples during an international seminar in Madrid in December 2010. Divided into three axes (History of Human Rights Movement, New Theoretical Approaches, and Reassessing the Use of Force) and always under the influence of David Kennedy's thinking, the authors analyze the current challenges of international law and how critical studies could provide alternative directions and new approaches to reconsider them. The book explains the interesting mutual exchange of international law theories between Europe and America in recent years. This book is valuable reading for a broad audience interested in international legal history, legal theory and popular themes in international law, comparative law and international relations, such as human rights, humanitarian law and migration law. Professor José María Beneyto is Director of the Institute for European Studies in Madrid, Spain. Professor David Kennedy is Director of the Institute for Global Law and Policy at Harvard Law School, Cambridge, USA.
Synopsis
The contributed volume provides a unique reflection on the historic impact and contemporary relevance of the New Approaches to International Law (NAIL) movement within the European and the American contexts. The volume is organized to focus on three regimes of international law. First, contributors assess current challenges within the human rights movement through a historical perspective. Second, the volume provides a selection of theoretical-oriented scholarship that suggests future directions for international law. Third, contributions will turn to analyze the development and contemporary state of the laws of war. The volume will include a preface by the founder of NAIL, David Kennedy, and conclude with an epilogue by the Spanish legal theorist and historian, Jose Maria Beneyto. The book will attract a broad audience interested in international legal history, legal theory, and a number of popular themes in international law, comparative law, and international relations, including such topics as human rights, humanitarian law, and immigration and migration law.
Synopsis
This volume offers a unique reflection on the historic and contemporary influence of the New Approaches to International Law (NAIL) movement within the context of Europe and America. In particular, the contributions focus on the intellectual product of NAIL's founder, David Kennedy, in relation to three legal streams: human rights, legal history, and the law of war. On the one hand, the volume is valuable reading for a broad audience interested in the current challenges facing global governance, and how critical studies might contribute to innovative intellectual and practice-oriented developments in international law. On the other hand, stemming from a 2010 seminar in Madrid that brought together scholars to discuss David Kennedy's scholarship over the last three decades, the contributions here are a testament to the community and ideas of the NAIL tradition.
Table of Contents
Where Does the Critique of International Human Rights Stand? An Exploration in 18 Vignettes.- Self-critique, (Anti)politics and Criminalization: Reflections on the History and Trajectory of the Human Rights Movement.- National Responses in Latin America to International Events Propelling the Justice Cascade: The Gelman Case.- New Theoretical Approaches in International Law in a European context .- Hugo Grotius in the Contemporary Memory of International Law: Secularism, Liberalism, and the Politics of Restatement and Denial.- New Approaches to International Law: Images of a Genealogy.- International legal innovation and the European condition.- Notes for the History of New Approaches to International Legal Studies - Not a Map but Perhaps a Compass.- Formalization and Deformalization as Narratives of the Law of War.