Cynical International Law Abuse And Circumvention In Public International And European Law 1st edition by Björnstjern Baade, Dana Burchardt, Prisca Feihle 9783662621288 3662621282

Part I. Cynical Foundations of International Law

Cynicism and the Autonomy of International Law

Beyond Cynicism and Critique: International Law and the Possibility of Change

Cynicism as a Modus of Political Agency: Can It Speak to International Law?

Part II. Cynical Actors in International Law

The International Law Commission as a Club of Cynics? Originalism and Legalism in the Commission’s Contemporary Work

The Added Value of the International Law Commission and Its Future Role in the Progressive Development and Codification of International Law

From Speaking Truth to Power to Speaking Power’s Truth: Transnational Judicial Activism in an Increasingly Illiberal World

From Judicialisation to Politicisation? A Response to Daniel Quiroga-Villamarín by an Academic Turned Practitioner

Oceans of Cynicism? Norm-Genesis, Lawfare and the South China Sea Arbitration Case

Peace Through Law? The Role of the Law of the Sea Convention Put into Question

Part III. Cynicism in European Law and Sub-Fields of Public International Law

Assessing the Strategic Use of the EU Preliminary Ruling Procedure by National Courts

In International Law We (Do Not) Trust: The Persistent Rejection of Economic and Social Rights as a Manifestation of Cynicism

In International Law We Shall Trust: (Even in) The Case of Economic and Social Rights

All Is Fair in Law and War? Legal Cynicism in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict

Cynicism? Yes, Please! Embracing Cynicism at the International Criminal Court

Part IV. Cynicism and Abuse of Rights

Abuse of Right in International Law: A Roman Law Analogy

Abuse of Rights: From Roman Law to International Law? Comments on the Contribution by Andrea Faraci and Luigi Lonardo

Cynicism and Nationality Planning in International Investment Law

(New) Ways of Combating Abuse and Circumvention of European Law on the Example of Tax Evasion and Tax Avoidance

Part V. Concluding Observations

Cynicism as an Analytical Lense for International Law? Concluding Observations

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