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Ulf Linderfalk
Professor
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The emperor’s new clothes – What if no Jus cogens claim can be justified?
Författare
Summary, in English
This article deals with an important question of legal justification: What reasons serve to justify a claim that a norm has the status of jus cogens. This question can be approached from two fundamentally different perspectives – in this article referred to as legal positivism and legal idealism. As earlier research has demonstrated, legal positivists have great difficulty justifying their jus cogens claims. What this article argues is that legal idealists face a no less difficult task, and that this prompts an entirely new understanding of the jus cogens discourse. If there is no way for a lawyer to justify a jus cogens claim, then neither is there any way for him or her to refute propositions put forth by others. Jus cogens discourse becomes a safe haven for all kinds of arguments, of which, legally speaking, no one can ever be regarded as any more acceptable than any other.
Avdelning/ar
- Folkrätt
- Juridiska fakulteten
Publiceringsår
2020
Språk
Engelska
Sidor
139-162
Publikation/Tidskrift/Serie
International Community Law Review
Volym
22
Issue
2
Dokumenttyp
Artikel i tidskrift
Förlag
Brill
Ämne
- Law
Nyckelord
- Identification of jus cogens norms
- Jus cogens
- Legal idealism
- Legal justification
- Peremptory international law
- Rationality
Aktiv
Published
Forskningsgrupp
- Public International Law
ISBN/ISSN/Övrigt
- ISSN: 1871-9740