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This volume sheds light on how lawyers have made sense of, engaged in, and shaped international politics over the past three hundred years. Chapters show how politicians and administrators, diplomats and military men, have considered their tasks in legal terms, and how the field of international relations has been filled with the distinctly legal vocabulary of laws, regulations, treaties, agreements, and conventions. 

Leading experts in the field provide insights into what it means when concrete decisions are taken, negotiations led, or controversies articulated and resolved by legal professionals. They also inquire into how the often-criticised gaps between juristic standards and everyday realities can be explained by looking at the very medium of law. Rather than sorting people and problems into binary categories such as 'law' and 'politics' or 'theory' and 'practice', the case studies in this volume reflect on these dichotomies and dissolve them into the messy realities of conflicts and interactions which take place in historically contingent situations, and in which international lawyers assume varying personas.

Contributors: Benjamin A. Coates, Wake Forest University ; Andrew Cobbing, University of Nottingham ; Julia Eichenberg, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin ; Gabriela A. Frei, Jesus College, University of Oxford ; Michael Jonas, Helmut-Schmidt-Universität ; Fabian Klose, Universität Köln ; Marcus M. Payk, Helmut-Schmidt-Universität ; Kim Christian Priemel, University of Oslo ; Morten Rasmussen, University of Copenhagen ; Katharina Rietzler, University of Sussex.

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1:Introduction: Thinking Law, Talking Law, Doing Law: How Lawyers Craft(ed) the International Order, Marcus M. Payk and Kim Christian Priemel

2:Shaping a New Profession: Japanese Encounters with International Law, c. 1600-1900, Andrew Cobbing

3:Legal Practitioners: Nineteenth Century International Jurisdiction and the Ambiguous Role of the Members of the Mixed Commissions, Fabian Klose

4:Legal Advice, the Foreign Office, and Britain's Neutrality Policy, 1870-1914, Gabriela A. Frei

5:The First R2P: US Legal Advisers and the Right to Protect Citizens in the Early Twentieth Century Americas, Benjamin A. Coates

6:Hammarskjöld at The Hague: Sweden and the Peace Conference of 1907, Michael Jonas

7:The Draughtsmen: International Lawyers and the Crafting of the Paris Peace Treaties, 1919-20, Marcus M. Payk

8:Legal Legwork: How Exiled Jurists Negotiated Recognition and Legitimacy in Wartime London 1939-45, Julia Eichenberg

9:Changing Hats. Nuremberg's Visible College and the Politics of Internationalism, 1941-49, Kim Christian Priemel

10:Fluid Boundaries in the Divisible College: The International Law Association and the Indus Waters Dispute in the 1950s, Katharina Rietzler

11:Agents of Constitutionalism: The Quest for a Constitutional Breakthrough in European Law, 1945-1964, Morten Rasmussen

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Qu'est-ce qu'une campagne électorale ? Comment s'organise-t-elle ? Quels sont les rites qui constituent le travail de ses acteurs ? Cet ouvrage répond à ces interrogations en étudiant en profondeur une campagne municipale de succession qui eut lieu dans le Ve arrondissement de Paris en 2014, et qui trouva son épilogue dans la campagne de 2020. Par le biais d'une longue enquête, les temporalités d'une campagne sont décryptées (de l'avant-campagne à l'après-campagne) ainsi que les dispositifs de mobilisation, contrôlés par les grands partis politiques, qui s'y donnent à voir (rassemblements, déploiements, production d'écrits). L'ethnographie d'une campagne permet de percevoir que la démocratie représentative est soumise à une évolution majeure : la ritualisation.

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Das Internationale Privatrecht der Gegenwart erscheint in besonderer Weise geprägt von politisch motivierten Anknüpfungen. Gesellschaftspolitisch erwünschten Rechtsfolgen wird auch im Auslandssachverhalt zum Durchbruch verholfen. Eingriffsnormen, Ordre-public-Vorbehalt sowie spezifisch ausgestaltete Kollisionsnormen und Zuständigkeitsregelungen spielen dabei ineinander. Dieses Phänomen betrifft die verschiedensten Rechtsbereiche, vom Wirtschaftsrecht über Kulturgutschutz bis hin zum Familienrecht, und ist sowohl auf der Ebene des nationalen als auch des europäischen Gesetzgebers zu beobachten. Aktuelle Beispiele sind die Behandlung der Rückführung von Kulturgütern, der Leihmutterschaft, der gleichgeschlechtlichen Ehe und der sog. Kinderehe. Bereits seit Langem ist der Verbraucherschutz im Fokus der gesetzgeberischen Aktivitäten. Der vorliegende Band sucht nach Erklärungen und kollisionsrechtlichen Einordnungen.

Felix Berner: Kollisionsrecht im Spannungsfeld von Kollisionsnormen, Hoheitsinteressen und wohlerworbenen Rechten – Erik Jayme: Die Rechtsstellung indigener Völker in Kulturgutverfahren vor deutschen Gerichten – Christian Kohler: Rückholung des Quimbaya-Goldschatzes nach Kolumbien? Zur Entscheidung des kolumbianischen Verfassungsgerichts über die Restitution von Kulturgütern durch Spanien – Martin Gebauer: Zur sogenannten Wertneutralität des klassischen IPR – Marc-Philippe Weller/Greta Göbel: Das politische IPR unserer Zeit: Gesellschaftsentwicklung durch Internationales Privatrecht? – Matthias Weller: Nach 20 Jahren 'Washington Principles on Nazi Confiscated Art'. Zeit für ein 'Restatement of Restitution Rules' – Stefan Huber: Schutzgerichtsstände im europäischen Zuständigkeitsrecht. Entstehungsgeschichte, aktueller Stand, Ausblick – Erik Jayme: Nachrichten aus der Akademischen Welt – Lesung

Martin Gebauer ist Inhaber des Lehrstuhls für Bürgerliches Recht, Internationales Privatrecht und Rechtsvergleichung an der Eberhard-Karls-Universität Tübingen und Richter am Oberlandesgericht Stuttgart.

Stefan Huber ist Inhaber des Lehrstuhls für Bürgerliches Recht, Zivilprozess- und Insolvenzrecht, Europäisches und Internationales Privat- und Verfahrensrecht an der Eberhard-Karls-Universität Tübingen.

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This book invites newcomers to analytical legal philosophy to reconsider the terms in which they are accustomed to describing and defending their jurisprudential allegiances. It argues that familiar taxonomic labels such as legal positivism, natural law theory and legal interpretivism are poor guides to the actual diversity of views on the nature and normativity of law, mainly because they fail to carve up the reality of jurisprudential disagreement at its joints. These joints, the author suggests, are elusive because the semantics of law systematically misplaces them. Their true nature resides in the metaontological and metanormative features that dictate or indicate the target of a theory's jurisprudential commitments. 

The book advocates a new vocabulary for articulating these commitments without eliminating the use of familiar criteria of division among competing theories of law. The resulting picture is a much broader platform of meaningful disagreement about the nature and grounds of legal truth and legal normativity. Albeit based on a factualist-cognitivist understanding of the sources and grounds of law, the book reserves ample room for the unconvinced. Those suspicious of the project of “ontologising” theoretical disagreements in law can avail themselves of the quietist or anti-metaphysical avenue that the book's alternative taxonomy also makes available. The humblest path to law's reality may not be metaphysically ambitious after all.

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1. From Legalese to Ontologese 

I. Dworkin's Vision of Jurisprudential Disagreement 

II. The Site and Scope of Jurisprudential Disagreement 

III. Legal Facts and Legal Propositions 

2. Relating Legal Propositions to Legal Facts 

I. Legal Truthmakers 

II. From a Theory of Truth to a Theory of Truthmaking 

III. Legal Propositionalism 

IV. Legal Propositionalism without Legal Truthmakers 

3. Relating Legal Facts to Legal Propositions 

I. Two Hypotheses about Jurisprudential Perspectivalism 

A. Pragmatic Perspectivalism 
B. Semantic Perspectivalism 
C. Perspectival Theoretical Disagreement 

II. Non-perspectival Jurisprudential Statements 

III. Are Constitutive Disputes Merely Verbal? 

IV. Constitutive Disagreement and the Practical Point of View 

4. Two Levels of Disagreement about the Metaphysics of Law 

I. Legal Constitution and its Discontents 

A. First-Order Disagreement over Legal Constitution 
B. Second-Order Disagreement over Legal Constitution 

II. Objectionable Jurisprudential Commitments 

III. Disagreement over Legal Grounding 

5. Resisting Ordinary Reasons Imperialism 

I. Axes of Normative Relevance 

II. Normative Roles 

III. Rational Requirements, Asymmetry and Response-Constraint 

IV. Thick Evaluation, Global Judgement and Constitutive Impact 

6. The Metric Approach to Legal Normativity 

I. The Limits of the Metric Approach 

II. Legal Facts as Nexus Reasons 

A. The Influential Role of Legal Facts 
B. The Evaluative Role of Legal Facts 
C. The Explanatory Role of Legal Facts 

7. Two Levels of Disagreement about the Normativity of Law 

I. First-Order Disagreement about the Grounds of Nexus Facts 

II. Second-Order Disagreement about the Normativity of Legal Facts 

A. How Can a Legal Interpretivist Disagree with a Nexus Theorist? 
B. How Can a Plan Positivist Disagree with a Nexus Theorist?