International Law : Constitutionalism, Managerialism and the Ethos of Legal Education

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dc.contributor.authorKOSKENNIEMI, Martti
dc.date.accessioned2007-05-22T12:20:26Z
dc.date.available2007-05-22T12:20:26Z
dc.date.issued2007
dc.descriptionIssue on 'Cross-perspectives'en
dc.descriptionPublished online: 01 September 2007en
dc.description.abstractThe judgment of the European Court of Justice in the Mox Plant case in 2006 is striking in its narrowness of vision. It imagines European law in fully autonomous terms, analogous to the national laws of European States under the strict ”dualism” of late-19th century jurisprudence. But Mox Plant is only one example of the increasing fragmentation of law beyond the nation-State into more or less autonomous technical “boxes”, each geared to realise a particular ethos, the structural bias of a particular form of expertise. Not only “European law” but also “trade law”, “human rights law”, “environmental law” are examples of such boxes, systems for the management of particular types of problem from a particular perspective. But law ought not to be conceived in managerial terms. It should not be reduced into an instrument of the preferences of those who manage this or that technical problem-area. Legal training – in the European University Institute and elsewhere – should be about the conditions and limits of particular forms of managerial authority. And if education in international law should be about how to attain a universal perspective, in today’s conditions this means the development of a critical sensitivity to the forms of international power exercised though particular forms of technical expertise.en
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dc.identifier.citationEuropean journal of legal studies, 2007, Vol. 1, No. 1, pp. 8-24en
dc.identifier.endpage24
dc.identifier.issn1973-2937
dc.identifier.issue1
dc.identifier.startpage8
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/1814/6838
dc.identifier.volume1
dc.language.isoenen
dc.publisherEuropean University Instituteen
dc.relation.ispartofEuropean journal of legal studiesen
dc.relation.urihttps://ejls.eui.eu/en
dc.rightsinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessen
dc.subjectInternational lawen
dc.titleInternational Law : Constitutionalism, Managerialism and the Ethos of Legal Educationen
dc.title.alternativeLe droit international et la voie de l’éducation juridique: Entre ‘constitutionnalisme’ et ‘gestionnariat’
dc.typeArticleen
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