Boundaries of discourse in the International Court of Justice; mapping arguments in Arab territorial disputes.

9789004174634

Boundaries of discourse in the International Court of Justice; mapping arguments in Arab territorial disputes.

Burgis, Michelle L.

Martinus Nijhoff Publishers

2009

307 pages

$148.00

Hardcover

KZ3684

Burgis (Middle East politics and international law, U. of St. Andrews, Scotland) helps develop the agendas for New Approaches to International Law (NAIL) and Third World Approaches to International Law (TWAIL) by focusing on the discursive practices used in disputes heard at the International Court of Justice, the pre-eminent international legal body. He uses Third World states as a tool for exploring the extent to which non-European experiences and legacies can be used to transform the language of international law, in particular exploring the arguments used to found title to territory using both mainstream and critical research agendas. The study is revised from his PhD dissertation at the Australian National University, and parts of it have been published in different form as journal articles since 2005.

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