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Diversity and Self-determination in International Law (Cambridge Studies in International & Comparative Law) (Cambridge Studies in International and Comparative Law)
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The emergence of new states and independence movements after the Cold War has intensified the long-standing disagreement among international lawyers over the right of self-determination, especially the right of secession. Knop shifts the discussion from the articulation of the right to its interpretation. She argues that the practice of interpretation involves and illuminates a problem of diversity raised by the exclusion of many of the groups that self-determination most affects. Distinguishing different types of exclusion and the relationships between them reveals the deep structures, biases and stakes in the decisions and scholarship on self-determination. Knop’s analysis also reveals that the leading cases have grappled with these embedded inequalities. Challenges by colonies, ethnic nations, indigenous peoples, women and others to the gender and cultural biases of international law emerge as integral to the interpretation of self-determination historically, as do attempts by judges and other institutional interpreters to meet these challenges.
Product Details
- Amazon Sales Rank: #2218669 in Books
- Published on: 2002-04-18
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Binding: Hardcover
- 460 pages
Editorial Reviews
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From the hardback review: '… Karen Knop presents a series of careful, yet provocative, readings of international legal texts on self-determination.' Fleur Johns, University of Sydney, Leiden Journal of International Law
From the hardback review: 'Knop has written a highly impressive, intelligent and sensitive study which is compulsory reading for anyone with an interest in self-determination and, more broadly, for anyone interested in seeing how international law can be used creatively yet responsibly.' International Journal on Minority and Group Rights
About the Author
KAREN KNOP is Associate Professor of Law in the Faculty of Law, University of Toronto, where she teaches international law and issues of self-determination in international law. She is editor, with Sylvia Ostry, Richard Simeon and Katherine Swinton of Re-Thinking Federalism: Citizens, Markets and Governments in a Changing World (1995).
