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020 _a9781782258827
040 _aMAIN
082 0 0 _a341.01
100 1 _aKolb, Robert,
245 1 0 _aTheory of international law
_h[electronic resource] /
_cby Robert Kolb.
300 _a1 online resource
500 _aBloomsbury Pub Ebook
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
520 8 _aThis book seeks to analyse various aspects of international law, the link being how they structure and marshal the different forces in the international legal order. It takes the following approaches to the matter. First, an attempt is made to determine the fundamental characteristics of international law, the forces that delineate and permeate its applications. Secondly, the multiple relations between law and policy are analysed. Politics are a highly relevant factor in the implementation of every legal order (and also a threat to it); this is all the more true in international law, where the two forces, law and politics, have significant links. Thirdly, the discussion focuses on a series of fundamental socio-legal notions: the common good, justice, legal security, reciprocity (plus equality and proportionality), liberty, ethics and social morality, and reason
650 0 _aInternational law
856 4 0 _uhttps://doi.org/10.5040/9781782258827?locatt=label:secondary_bloomsburyCollections
942 _cEBK
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