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100 _aRoberts, Anthea
245 _aIs international law international? /
_cby Anthea Roberts
260 _aUK:
_bOxford University Press ,
_c 2017
300 _a406p. ;
_c23cm
505 _a1. The Divisible College of International Lawyers I. Difference II. Dominance III. Disruption 2. Project Design I. General Framework II. The Actors and Materials Studied III. The States and Universities Studied IV. Important Concepts and Factors V. Three Points of Method 3. Comparing International Law Academics I. The Global Flow of Students and Ideas II. Comparing Educational Profiles III. Comparing Publication Placements IV. Comparing Links Between Academia and Practice 4. Comparing International Law Textbooks and Casebooks I. Preliminary Points of Method II. The Nationalized/ Denationalized Divide III. Inconsistent Approaches IV. A Tendency to Look West V. A Lack of Diverse Comparativism VI. Divisions Between the Western and Non- Western Books VII. Divisions Between Western Books 5. Patterns of Difference and Dominance I. Comparing International Legal Academies II. Identifying Scholarly Silos and Attempts to Connect III. Identifying Patterns of Dominance 6. Disruptions Leading to a Competitive World Order I. Shifting to a Competitive World Order II. Disagreements in Practice, Not Just Words
520 _aThis book challenges the idea that international law looks the same from anywhere in the world. Instead, how international lawyers understand and approach their field is often deeply influenced by the national contexts in which they lived, studied, and worked. International law in the United States and in the United Kingdom looks different compared to international law in China and Russia, though some approaches (particularly Western, Anglo-American ones) are more influential outside their borders than others. Given shifts in geopolitical power and the rise of non-Western powers like China, it
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