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ID193227
Title ProperHome and the world
Other Title Information the legal imagination of Martti Koskenniemi
LanguageENG
AuthorArmitage, David
Summary / Abstract (Note)The Finnish lawyer-historian Martti Koskenniemi’s new book, To the Uttermost Parts of the Earth: Legal Imagination and International Power, 1300–1870 (2021), is the culmination of a 30-year-long project to deconstruct and historicise the reigning assumptions of the profession of international law. This article evaluates To the Uttermost Parts of the Earth in the context of Koskenniemi’s larger critical project as well as within the historiography of international law from the late 19th century to the present. It argues that Koskenniemi’s genealogical method is revealing and frustrating in equal measure: frustrating in its diffuseness and lack of overarching argument but revealing in its scope, in its erudition and in its ambitions to disrupt traditional teleologies, to reveal the constraining force of legal language and to expose European dialogues between ‘domestic’ and international law over more than 500 years.
`In' analytical NoteInternational Relations Vol. 37, No.4; Dec 2023: p.654-672
Journal SourceInternational Relations Vol: 37 No 4
Key WordsHistoriography ;  Genealogy ;  International Law ;  Law of Nations


 
 
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