International Law, Human Rights, and Politics

International law: is it law? [Le droit international est-il du droit?]1 The question is not a new one: it was posed immediately after World War I, when the League of Nations took up the task of establishing the rules by which its members would abide-although at the time there was merely question of...

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Published in:Qui Parle 2013-12, Vol.22 (1), p.117-137
Main Author: Lefort, Claude
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Civil rights
Crimes against humanity
Criminal justice
Critical Theory
Cultural Studies
Human rights
International cooperation
International law
Jurisdiction
Law
Literary Theory
Literature and Literary Studies
Point of view
Politics
Sovereign states
Sovereignty
Theory and Philosophy
Treaties
War
World wars
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Summary:International law: is it law? [Le droit international est-il du droit?]1 The question is not a new one: it was posed immediately after World War I, when the League of Nations took up the task of establishing the rules by which its members would abide-although at the time there was merely question of a Europe-wide law. International law is elusive [le droit international se dérobe], both from a formalist point of view and from a realist point of view.4 Not only does international law develop in response to events whose effects it is still attempting to integrate, but it itself appears, in the aftermath of World War I, as an event-I mean, it appears as an event of the type that bears institutional markers, that gives voice to a new experience in social or intersocial life [de la vie sociale ou intersociale].
ISSN:1041-8385
1938-8020
2158-0057
DOI:10.5250/quiparle.22.1.0117