The Battle for International Law South-North Perspectives on the Decolonization Era

by von Bernstorff, Jochen; Dann, Philipp

• ISBN13: 9780191883927
• ISBN10: 0191883921
• Format: eBook
• Copyright: 2019-12-19
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Author Biography

Jochen von Bernstorff is currently the Dean of the Tubingen Law Faculty (since 2018), holds the Chair for Constitutional law, International Law and Human Rights (since 2011), and has taught international law as a visiting professor at the German Federal Foreign Office Academy Berlin, Universite Pantheon-Assas (institut des hautes etudes internationales), Universite Aix-Marseille and National Taiwan University Taipei. He has acted as a consultant for the German Government and various UN-institutions on human rights, development and international environmental law issues.

Philipp Dann holds the Chair of Public and Comparative Law at Humboldt University Berlin (since 2014) and is principal investigator in the Cluster of Excellence 'Contestations of the Liberal Script' (since 2019). He holds degrees from Frankfurt University (PhD and post-doctoral Habilitation) and Harvard Law School (LL.M.) and has taught German, European and public international law in Germany, France, India, Kenya, the Sudan and the US.

Table of Contents

Introduction
The Battle for International Law: A Sketch, Jochen von Bernstorff and Philipp Dann
Part I: Sites of Battle
A. Concepts - Kampfbegriffe
1. The Common Heritage of Mankind: Annotations on a Battle, Surabhi Ranganathan
2. The Battle for the Recognition of Wars of National Liberation, Jochen von Bernstorff
3. The Developmental State: Independence, Dependency and the History of the South, Luis Eslava
4. Colonial Fragments: Decolonisation, Concessions and Acquired Rights, Matthew Craven
5. Acquired Rights and State Succession - The Rise and Fall of the Third World in the International Law Commission, Anna Brunner
6. Rival Worlds and the Place of the Corporation in International law, Subhya Pahuja and Anna Saunders
7. The Battle Continues: Rebuilding Empire through Internationalization of State Contracts, Muthucumaraswamy Sornarajah
8. (De)colonizing Human Rights, Florian Hoffmann and Bethania Assy
9. Picking Battles: Race, Decolonization, and Apartheid, Rotem Giladi
B. Institutions
10. The International Court of Justice During the Battle for International Law (1955-1975)-Colonial Imprints and Possibilities for Change, Ingo Venzke
11. The Battle and the United Nations, Guy Sinclair
12. The World Bank in the Battles of the 'Decolonization Era', Philipp Dann
Part II Individual Protagonists and Regional Perspectives
A. Individual Protagonists
13. Reading R.P. Anand in the Postcolony: Between Resistance and Appropriation, Prabhakar Singh
14. Taslim Olawale Elias: From British Colonial Law to Modern International Law, Carl Landauer
15. Determining New Selves: Mohammed Bedjaoui on Algeria, Western Sahara, and Post-Classical International Law, Umut Ozsu
16. Charles Chaumont's Third World International Legal Theory, Emamanuelle Tourme Jouannet
B. Regional Perspectives
17. Literal 'Decolonisation': Re-reading African International Legal Scholarship through the African Novel, Christopher Gevers
18. The Soviets and the Right to Self-Determination of the Colonized: Contradictions of Soviet Diplomacy and Foreign Policy in the Era of Decolonization, Bill Bowring
19. The Failed Battle for Self-Determination: The United States and the Postwar Illusion of Enlightened Colonialism, 1945-1975, Olivier Barsalou
Epilogue
What's Law Got to Do with it? Recollections, Impressions, Martti Koskenniemi