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The Experiences of International Organizations
A Phenomenological Approach to International Institutional Law
9781035319534 Edward Elgar Publishing
This groundbreaking book uses the idea of experience to investigate the various ways in which international organizations are understood by judges, legal practitioners, legal researchers, legal theorists, and thinkers of global governance.
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This groundbreaking book uses the idea of experience to investigate the various ways in which international organizations are understood and captured by judges, legal practitioners, legal researchers, legal theorists, and thinkers of global governance.
Adopting a unique phenomenological approach, Jean d’Aspremont questions the key patterns of thought that inform the legal practice of international organizations, arguing that said organizations are the product of five specific experiences: affection, insulation, edification, restriction, and conciliation. Through this critical lens, d’Aspremont highlights the limits of the current conceptualizations of international organizations which populate legal practice and legal literature. In doing so, the book crucially develops contemporary discourse on how international lawyers build their claims about the status, rights, duties, responsibilities, failures and falls of international organizations; and assesses how international organizations are thought about in relation to international law, international relations and studies of global governance.
Insightful and thought-provoking, this distinct approach will be a fundamental resource for researchers, scholars and theorists in law and politics, legal theory, international relations and public international law. Professionals and practitioners working in these sectors will also find this book an enlightening read.
Adopting a unique phenomenological approach, Jean d’Aspremont questions the key patterns of thought that inform the legal practice of international organizations, arguing that said organizations are the product of five specific experiences: affection, insulation, edification, restriction, and conciliation. Through this critical lens, d’Aspremont highlights the limits of the current conceptualizations of international organizations which populate legal practice and legal literature. In doing so, the book crucially develops contemporary discourse on how international lawyers build their claims about the status, rights, duties, responsibilities, failures and falls of international organizations; and assesses how international organizations are thought about in relation to international law, international relations and studies of global governance.
Insightful and thought-provoking, this distinct approach will be a fundamental resource for researchers, scholars and theorists in law and politics, legal theory, international relations and public international law. Professionals and practitioners working in these sectors will also find this book an enlightening read.
Critical Acclaim
‘Standing on top of Mount Olympus as well as in the valley below, over the last decade or so Jean d’Aspremont has been creating a genre all his own, best seen as “confessional phenomenology” perhaps. He is not unique in looking at what (mostly academic) international lawyers do, but where others look at how international lawyers contribute to justice or injustice, oppression or emancipation, d’Aspremont turns his gaze inward, reflecting on what drives those international lawyers, including (and occasionally especially) himself. The result, here as elsewhere, is insightful and sometimes infuriating, eye-opening and occasionally trivial, with lots of ideas to explore and some to disagree with. In other words, The Experiences of International Organizations is vintage d’Aspremont.’
– Jan Klabbers, University of Helsinki, Finland
‘The phenomenological approach to law fits in with the latest scholarly insights and trends. It is therefore timely to provide a subjective, experiential perspective on what is perceived by many as the sturdiest and most objective of all legal occurrences: the international organisation. This book carefully lays out such a phenomenological perspective, with the author’s signature combination of eloquence and analytical rigour. A must-read for anyone who wishes to keep ahead in international (institutional) law scholarship.’
– Catherine Brölmann, University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands
– Jan Klabbers, University of Helsinki, Finland
‘The phenomenological approach to law fits in with the latest scholarly insights and trends. It is therefore timely to provide a subjective, experiential perspective on what is perceived by many as the sturdiest and most objective of all legal occurrences: the international organisation. This book carefully lays out such a phenomenological perspective, with the author’s signature combination of eloquence and analytical rigour. A must-read for anyone who wishes to keep ahead in international (institutional) law scholarship.’
– Catherine Brölmann, University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands
Contents
Contents:
Preface viii
Introduction: A phenomenological approach to international
institutional law
1 The experience of affection
2 The experience of insulation
3 The experience of edification
4 The experience of restriction
5 The experience of reconciliation
Epilogue
Bibliography
Index
Preface viii
Introduction: A phenomenological approach to international
institutional law
1 The experience of affection
2 The experience of insulation
3 The experience of edification
4 The experience of restriction
5 The experience of reconciliation
Epilogue
Bibliography
Index
