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International Law: A Discipline of Crisis
Author(s) -
Charlesworth Hilary
Publication year - 2002
Publication title -
the modern law review
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.37
H-Index - 22
eISSN - 1468-2230
pISSN - 0026-7961
DOI - 10.1111/1468-2230.00385
Subject(s) - international law , political science , law , focus (optics) , intervention (counseling) , sociology , psychology , physics , optics , psychiatry
This article examines the way that international lawyers tend to focus on crises for the development of international law. It uses the reactions of international lawyers to NATO’s intervention in Kosovo in 1999 as a case study of this tendency and argues that the crisis focus impoverishes the discipline of international law. The article proposes the idea of an international law of everyday life as an alternative.