Legitimacy and Legality in International Law: An Interactional AccountIt has never been more important to understand how international law enables and constrains international politics. By drawing together the legal theory of Lon Fuller and the insights of constructivist international relations scholars, this book articulates a pragmatic view of how international obligation is created and maintained. First, legal norms can only arise in the context of social norms based on shared understandings. Second, internal features of law, or 'criteria of legality', are crucial to law's ability to promote adherence, to inspire 'fidelity'. Third, legal norms are built, maintained or destroyed through a continuing practice of legality. Through case studies of the climate change regime, the anti-torture norm, and the prohibition on the use of force, it is shown that these three elements produce a distinctive legal legitimacy and a sense of commitment among those to whom law is addressed. |
Contents
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2 Shared understandings the underpinnings of law | 56 |
3 Interactional law and compliance laws hidden power | 88 |
4 Climate change building a global legal regimw | 126 |
5 Torture undermining normative ambition | 220 |
6 The use of force normative ebb and flow | 271 |
Conclusion | 350 |
Bibliography | 358 |
Index | 388 |
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