Repetition and international law

by Werner, W. G., (Wouter G.)

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Full title :Repetition and international law / Wouter Werner, Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, University of Curaçao.

Summary

"Chapter one starts from my embarrassment when teaching sources of international law. Following conventional wisdom, I inform students that international law is grounded on a limited set of sources. However, at some point, I also have to explain that it is possible for new sources of international law to emerge. How is this possible, given that international law is grounded on a limited set of sources? I try to deal with this uneasiness by comparing discourses on sources to rituals that prevail in what I call "cyclical societies," organized around the belief in the eternal return of transcendental ideas, acts or events. To apply sources, I argue, is to perform a double act of repetition. First, historically contingent events are turned into manifestations of pregiven and repeatable categories. Second, sources are used as placeholders for something that will always escape positive international law: the foundational categories that underlie the sources of law. These foundational categories, I argue, work somewhat like celestial Gods in cyclical societies: Most of the time they stay dormant and aloof, but they can always be called upon in exceptional times"--

Edition Statements

Publication Date:©2022

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Cambridge University Press
Place of Publication:Cambridge, United Kingdom
Language:eng
Publication Date:©2022

The Physical Object

Description:1 online resource (ix, 184 pages)

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:1009040111, 9781009039666, 1009039660, 9781009040112
oclc:on1255521180
LC Classification:KZ1285.5
Dewey Decimal:341.01/4

The eternal return of not quite the same : repetition and the sources of international law -- The law of receding origins : repetition and the identification of customary international law -- "Once upon a time, there was a story that began" : repetition in Security Council resolutions -- Say that again, please : repetition in the Tallinn manual -- Rehearsing rehearsing : repetition in international moot court competitions -- The unimaginable on screen : repetition in documentary films on trauma and atrocities.

Subjects

Discours politique International law -- Language International law -- Sources Repetition (Rhetoric) Répétition (Rhétorique) Rhetoric -- Political aspects