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Consenting to International Law

Consenting to International Law

Consenting to International Law

Samantha Besson, Collège de France, Paris
December 2023
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    The obligations stemming from international law are still predominantly considered, despite important normative and descriptive critiques, as being 'based' on (State) consent. To that extent, international law differs from domestic law where consent to the law has long been considered irrelevant to law-making, whether as a criterion of validity or as a ground of legitimacy. In addition to a renewed historical and philosophical interest in (State) consent to international law, including from a democratic theory perspective, the issue has also recently regained in importance in practice. Various specialists of international law and the philosophy of international law have been invited to explore the different questions this raises in what is the first edited volume on consent to international law in English language. The collection addresses three groups of issues: the notions and roles of consent in contemporary international law; its objects and types; and its subjects and institutions.

    • A contemporary approach to consent to international law, addressing cutting-edge global issues such as climate change, human rights protection and global democracy
    • Provides the reader with a general and in-depth analysis of all aspects pertaining to consent to international law
    • Includes interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary perspectives, references, and examples, showing how different disciplines can interact on the central topic of consent to international law

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    ‘This volume is a significant contribution to the subject, which seasoned scholars will find intellectually engaging … Highly recommended.’ D. Ettinger, CHOICE

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    Product details

    December 2023
    Hardback
    9781009406451
    407 pages
    229 × 152 × 22 mm
    0.172kg
    Available

    Table of Contents

    • Part I. Notions and Roles of Consent:
    • 1. Consenting is not willing Alain Pellet
    • 2. State consent and the legitimacy of international law David Lefkowitz
    • 3. Controlling consent: insights from binding dispute settlement Christian Tams
    • 4. International organizations and the disaggregation of consent Catherine Brölmann
    • 5. Consenting to international law in five moves Jean d'Aspremont
    • Part II. Objects and Types of Consent:
    • 6. Do international agreements have a consent problem? Duncan B. Hollis
    • 7. Consenting to treaty commitments: endorsing rules or endorsing a regime of discursive commitments? Fuad Zarbiyev
    • 8. State consent in the evolving climate regime: individual and collective aspects Jutta Brunnée
    • 9. Consent and sources: the European court of human rights and the international law commission Georg Nolte
    • 10. Variations around the notion of consent in investment arbitration Laurence Boisson de Chazournes
    • Part III. Subjects and Institutions of Consent:
    • 11. The consent of international organizations in the making of general and conventional rules of international law Fernando Lusa Bordin
    • 12. Consent and informal law-making: the view from the court of justice of the European union Eva Kassoti
    • 13. Consent as a guarantee of the democratic legitimacy of international law Monique Chemillier-Gendreau
    • 14. From equal state consent to equal public participation in international organizations: institutionalizing multiple international representation Samantha Besson and José Luis Martí
    • 15. Autonomy in international law: about the legal and societal limits to the exercise of consent Yannick Radi
    • Index.
      Contributors
    • Alain Pellet, David Lefkowitz, Christian Tams, Catherine Brölmann, Jean d'Aspremont, Duncan B. Hollis, Fuad Zarbiyev, Jutta Brunnée, Georg Nolte, Laurence Boisson de Chazournes, Fernando Lusa Bordin, Eva Kassoti, Monique Chemillier-Gendreau, Samantha Besson, José Luis Martí and Yannick Radi

    • Editor
    • Samantha Besson , Collège de France, Paris

      Samantha Besson holds the Chair Droit international des institutions at the Collège de France and is Professor of Public International Law and European Law at the University of Fribourg (Switzerland). She is an Associate Member of the Institute of International Law and co-Chair of the ILA Study Group on the International Law of Regional Organizations.