# Contingency in International Law - Portail Universitaire du droit > Source : [Portail Universitaire du Droit](https://univ-droit.fr) > URL : https://univ-droit.fr/recherche/actualites-de-la-recherche/parutions/37162-contingency-in-international-law > Description : contingency in international law, on the possibility of different legal histories, présentation de l'éditeur this book poses a question that is deceptive ... ## Parution *On the Possibility of Different Legal Histories* - **ISBN** : 978-0-192-89803-6 - **Éditeur** : Oxford University Press ## Résumé Présentation de l'éditeur This book poses a question that is deceptive in its simplicity: could international law have been otherwise? Today, there is hardly a serious account left that would consider the path of international law to be necessary, and that would refute the possibility of a different law altogether. But behind every possibility of the past stands a reason why the law developed as it did. Only with a keen sense of why things turned out the way they did is it possible to argue about how the law could plausibly have turned out differently.  The search for contingency in international law is often motivated, as it is in this volume, by a refusal to resign to the present state of affairs. By recovering past possibilities, this volume aims to inform projects of transformative legal change for the future. The book situates that search for contingency theoretically and carries it into practice across many fields, with chapters discussing human rights and armed conflict, migrants and refugees, the sea and natural resources, foreign investments and trade. In doing so, it shows how politically charged questions about contingency have always been. Contributors: Mohsen al Attar, Dean of the Faculty of Law, University of the West Indies; Associate Professor, University of Warwick ; Amanda Alexander, Lecturer, Australian Catholic University ; Jochen von Bernstorff, Professor, University of Tübingen; Kevin Crow, Assistant Professor of International Law and Ethics, Asia School of Business; International Faculty Fellow, MIT ; Ana Delic, PhD Researcher, Tilburg University ; Justin Desautels-Stein, Associate Professor, University of Colorado ; Filipe dos Reis, Assistant Professor, University of Groningen ; Saïda El Boudouhi, Professor of Law, Université Polytechnique Hauts-de-France (Valenciennes) ; Matthias Goldmann, Junior Professor, Goethe University Frankfurt; Senior Research Fellow, Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law ; Geoff Gordon, Senior Researcher, T.M.C. Asser Instituut ; Kathryn Greenman, Lecturer, University of Technology Sydney ; Kevin Jon Heller, Professor of International Law and Security, Centre for Military Studies, University of Copenhagen; Professor of Law, Australian National University ; Mats Ingulstad, Researcher, Norwegian University of Science and Technology ; Fleur Johns, Professor, University of New South Wales ; Michelle Staggs Kelsall, Lecturer, SOAS University of London ; Edward Kolla, Associate Professor, Georgetown University ; Lucas Lixinski, Associate Professor, University of New South Wales ; Emma Stone Mackinnon, Lecturer, University of Cambridge ; Bianca Maganza, PhD Candidate, Graduate Institute of International Development Studies (Geneva) ; Kathryn McNeilly, Senior Lecturer, Queen's University Belfast ; Frédéric Mégret , Professor, McGill University ; Samuel Moyn, Professor, Yale University ; Nicholas Mulder, Assistant Professor of Modern European History, Cornell University ; Janne Nijman, Professor, University of Amsterdam and the Graduate Institute of International Development Studies (Geneva); Academic Director, T.M.C. Asser Instituut ;  Umut Özsu, Associate Professor, Carleton University ; Josef Ostanský, Visiting Fellow, Australian National University; Associate Researcher, Geneva Center for International Dispute Settlement ; Alex Oude Elferink, Netherlands Institute for the Law of the Sea (NILOS); Utrecht Centre for Oceans, Water and Sustainability Law, Utrecht University ; Genevieve Renard Painter, Assistant Professor, Concordia University ; Surabhi Ranganathan, University Senior Lecturer, King's College, University of Cambridge ; Silvia Steininger, Research Fellow, Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law ; Christopher Szabla, Global Academic Fellow, University of Hong Kong ; Michele Tedeschini, Research Fellow, Centre for Global Cooperation Research, Universität Duisburg-Essen ; Boyd van Dijk, McKenzie Fellow, University of Melbourne ; Ingo Venzke, Professor, University of Amsterdam; Director, Amsterdam Center for International Law (ACIL).   Sommaire I. INTRODUCTION1:Contingency Situated, Ingo Venzke II. THEORISING AND NARRATING CONTIGENCY A. Enacted Structures and Structured Actors2:On Dead Circuits and Non-Events, Fleur Johns3:Contingency in International Legal History: Why Now?, Genevieve Painter4:The Necessity of Contingency: Method and Marxism in International Law, Umut Özsu5:The Realist and the Visionary: Property, Sovereignty, and the Problem of Social Change, Justin Desautels-Stein6:An Enlarged Sense of Possibility for International Law: Seeking Change by Doing History, Janne Nijman B. Situated Perspectives and Possibilities7:Contingencies in International Legal Histories: Origins and Observers, Filipe dos Reis8:Historical Base and Legal Superstructure: Reading Contingency and Necessity in the Tadic Challenge, Michele Tedeschini9:Subverting Eurocentric Epistemology: The Value of Nonsense When Designing Counterfactuals, Mohsen al Attar10:The Time of Contingency in International Law, Geoff Gordon III. LOCATING AND RESISTING CONTINGENCY A. Migrants and Refugees11:The Contingency of International Migration Law, Frédéric Mégret12:Contingent Movements? Differential Decolonisations of International Refugee and Migration Law and Governance, Christopher Szabla B. Sea and Resources13:What if the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea had Entered into Force Unamended: Business as Usual or Dystopia?, Alex Oude Elferink14:What if Arvid Pardo had not made his famous speech? (False) Contingency in the Making of the Law of the Sea, Surabhi Ranganathan15:Contingent Economic Ordering: Permanent Sovereignty over Natural Resources and International Commodity Agreements, Lucas Lixinski and Mats Ingulstad C. Human Rights16:Rights for Daydreaming: International Human Rights Law Thought Otherwise, Kathryn McNeilly17:Who Turned Multinational Corporations into Bearers of Human Rights? On the Creation of Corporate 'Human' Rights in International Law, Silvia Steininger and Jochen von Bernstorff18:Austerity: Why Human Rights Came Late and Helped Little, Matthias Goldmann D. Armed Conflict19:Contingencies of Context: Contested Legacies of the Algerian Revolution in the 1977 Additional Protocols to the Geneva Conventions, Emma Stone Mackinnon20:Unveiling Common Article 3 to the Geneva Conventions: Contingency, Necessity and Possibility in International Humanitarian Law, Bianca Maganza21:The Narrative Contingency of International Humanitarian Law: Crimes against Humanity in Cixin Liu's Post-Humanist Universe, Amanda Alexander22:Why Did Starvation Not Become the Paradigmatic War Crime in International Law?, Nicholas Mulder and Boyd van Dijk E. Foreign Investments23:The Law of State Responsibility and the Persistence of Investment Protection, Kathryn Greenman24:Barcelona Traction Re-Imagined: The ICJ as a World Court for Foreign Investment Cases?, Saïda El Boudouhi25:From a Fortuitous Transplant to a Fundamental Principle of Law? The Doctrine of Legitimate Expectations and the Possibilities of a Different Law, Josef Ostranský F. The New International Economic Order26:Bandung's Fate, Kevin Crow27:'Poisonous Flowers on the Dust-heap of a Dying Capitalism': The United Nations Code of Conduct on Transnational Corporations, Contingency and Failure in International Law, Michelle Staggs Kelsall G. Eruptions28:Contravention and Creation of Law during the French Revolution, Edward Kolla29:Contingencies in The Rise of European and Latin American Private International Law, 1850 to 1950, Ana Delic IV. OUTLOOK30:From Situated Freedom to Plausible Worlds, Samuel Moyn ## Métadonnées - **Catégorie** : Parutions - **Publié** : 2021-04-22 --- *Portail Universitaire du Droit — [univ-droit.fr](https://univ-droit.fr)*