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Ulf Linderfalk
Professor
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The Proliferation of Special Regimes and the Unity of the International Legal System
Författare
Summary, in English
International law is becoming increasingly more specialized and diversified. In response to these developments, international lawyers now widely refer to international investment law, European human rights law and many other branches as ‘special regimes’. Scholars in the field see the proliferation of special regimes as a threat to the unity of the international legal system. In so doing, they are applying the traditional definition of a special regime as a collection of norms. This article encourages readers to conceive instead of a special regime as a community of practice—as an activity structured around the normative presuppositions of the people and institutions that participate in it. This new understanding, the article argues, is compatible with all predominant theories of law. When you adopt it, importantly, the proliferation of special regimes does not have the disintegrating effect that many scholars believe it to have.
Avdelning/ar
- Juridiska institutionen
- Folkrätt
Publiceringsår
2024
Språk
Engelska
Publikation/Tidskrift/Serie
Liverpool Law Review
Dokumenttyp
Artikel i tidskrift
Förlag
Springer
Ämne
- Law
Nyckelord
- Fragmentation of international law
- International law
- Special regimes
- Unity of the international legal system
Aktiv
Epub
Forskningsgrupp
- Public International Law
ISBN/ISSN/Övrigt
- ISSN: 0144-932X