Date: 1988
Type: Book
Change and stability in international law-making
Florence : European University Institute, New York ; Berlin : De Gruyter, 1988, European University Institute Series A-Law ; 9
CASSESE, Antonio, WEILER, Joseph H. H. (editor/s), CASSESE, Antonio, WEILER, Joseph H. H., Change and stability in international law-making, Florence : European University Institute, New York ; Berlin : De Gruyter, 1988, European University Institute Series A-Law ; 9
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Although the international community is changing at an increasingly rapid pace (chiefly at the instigation of developing and Socialist countries), some of its basic features remain unaffected or at least are being eroded only marginally, due to strong resistance from the traditional "actors". Thus, there is a deep rift between the "old" and the "new" patterns of the community, the cause of continual tension. The motivations and ramifications of this cleavage must be grasped, if one wishes to understand where the international community is heading at present. This theme was chosen as the focus of two international colloquia held at the European University Institute, Florence. We decided to look at this phenomenon from a particular vantage point: that of the mechanisms existing at world level for creating, updating, modifying or eliminating the "rules of the game" of the international community: in short, those mechanisms which are traditionally called "the sources of law". We thought that this area, if looked upon as a dynamic process, could show, as if seen through a prism, the resistance of the "old" and the innovations of the "new". We thought that by examining the microcosm of the law-creating processes, we might perhaps better understand some general trends of the macrocosm of the world community.
Table of Contents:
Part I The classical "sources" of international law revisted
-- Chapter I : custom and treaties, Eduardo Jimenez de Arechaga and John Hazard
-- Chapter II : the role of general principles of law and General Assembly resolutions, Wilhelm Riphagen and Luigi Condorelli
-- Part II Are we heading for a new normativity in the international community
-- Introduction, Joseph H. H. Weiler
-- Chapter I : to what extent are the traditional categories of lex lata and lex ferenda still viable?, Ian Brownlie
-- Chapter II : voluntarism versus majority rule, Gaetano Arangio-Ruiz
-- Chapter III : to what extent are international law and international lawyers ideologically "neutral"?, Richard Falk
-- Part III General round-up, Antonio Cassese
Additional information:
Based on the proceedings of two international colloquia held at the European University Institute, Florence.; Digitised version produced by the EUI Library and made available online in Open Access in 2021 for research or private study purposes
Cadmus permanent link: https://hdl.handle.net/1814/70795
ISBN: 9780899254203
Publisher: European University Institute; De Gruyter
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