The Nature of Customary Law Legal, Historical and Philosophical Perspectives /
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| Imprint: | Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2007 |
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| Description: | 1 online resource (352 p.) : digital, PDF file(s). |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | E-Resource Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/8838126 |
Table of Contents:
- List of contributors
- Table of cases
- The character of customary law: an introduction
- Part I. Custom and Morality: Natural Law, Customary Law, And Ius Gentium
- 1. Pitfalls in the interpretation of customary law
- 2. The moral role of conventions
- 3. Habit and convention at the foundation of custom
- 4. Custom, ordinance and natural right in Gratian's 'Decretum'
- 5. Vitoria and Suarez on Ius Gentium, natural law, and custom
- 6. Custom and positivity: an examination of the philosophic ground of the Hegel-Savigny controversy
- Part II. Custom and Law: Custom, Common Law, and Customary International Law
- 7. Custom in medieval law
- 8. Siege warfare in the early modern age: a study on the customary laws of war
- 9. The idea of common law as custom
- 10. Three ways of writing a treatise on public international law: textbooks and the nature of customary international law
- 11. Custom, common law reasoning and the law of nations in the nineteenth century
- 12. Custom in international law: a normative practice account
- 13. Customary international law and the quest for global justice
- Index of names