Fin de NAIL: New Approaches to International Law and its Impact on Contemporary International Legal Scholarship

Leiden Journal of International Law

Volumn 10, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 415-420

  Skouteris, Thomas ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

Critical Legal Studies Movement; New Approaches to International Law

Indexed keywords

EID: 56049117329     PISSN: 09221565     EISSN: 14789698     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0922156597000320     Document Type: Editorial

References (8)

1. The marginalization of ‘theoretical’ debate has been noticed by many writers: see, c.g.y M. Koskenniemi, From Apology to Utopia-The Structure of International Legal Arguitient xiii (1989): see, generally, P. Allott et a.L, Thenry ar\A TntfirnatTonal T aw Art Tntrnduction (1991).
2. Conference on New Approaches to InternationaJ Law; Fin de NAIL-. A Celebration, Har-Viitd Law School, S-Il May 1999.
3. For some representative accounts of newstream writing see, e.g., D.Z. Cass, Navigating the Newstream: Recent Critical Scholarship in International Law, 65 Nordic Journal of International Law 341-383 (1996); D. Kennedy, A New Stream of International Law Scholarship, 7 Wisconsin International Law Journal I-4y (lySH-iyKV); and A. Carty, Critical International Law: Recent Trends in the Theory of International Law, 2 EJIL 66-96 (1991).
4. For the most extensive newstream bibliography compiled so far, see 1997 HILJ (forthcoming).
5. Providing a ‘mitsheJl’ account of newstream writing is a idf-defeating exercise, involving generalizations ill-suited to the description of the work of such a diverse group of writers, bui it is prompted here by space considerations. For some comprehensive accounts see note 4, For the most extensive newstream bibliography compiled so far.
6. See Koskenniemi, Providing a ‘mitsheJl’ account of newstream writing is a idf-defeating exercise, involving generalizations ill-suited to the description of the work of such a diverse group of writers, bui it is prompted here by space considerations. note 1.
7. S. Tlie paih-breaking works of D. Kennedy and P. Alloci provide some good examples. See D. Kennedy, International Legal Structures (1987); and P. Allott, Eunomia: New Order for a New World (1990).
8. For some exploratory efforts on this front, see O. Korhonen, New International Law: Silence, Defence or Deliverance?, EJIL 1-2S (lyvfa); and M. 14.oskenniemi, faith, Identity, and the Killing of the Innocent: International Lawyers and Nuclear Weapons, 10 LJIL 137-162 (1997)