Description
In 1917, the October Revolution and the adoption of the revolutionary Mexican Constitution shook the foundations of the international order in profound, unprecedented and lasting ways. These events posed fundamental challenges to international law, unsettling foundational concepts of property, statehood and non-intervention, and indeed the very nature of law itself. This collection asks what we might learn about international law from analysing how its various sub-fields have remembered, forgotten, imagined, incorporated, rejected or sought to manage the revolutions of 1917. It shows that those revolutions had wide-ranging repercussions for the development of laws relating to the use of force, intervention, human rights, investment, alien protection and state responsibility, and for the global economy subsequently enabled by international law and overseen by international institutions. The varied legacies of 1917 play an ongoing role in shaping political struggle in the form of international law.
The 1917 October Revolution and the revolutionary Mexican Constitution shook the foundations of international law. This collection revisits their legacies.
About the Author
Kathryn Greenman is Lecturer in the Faculty of Law, University of Technology, Sydney. Anne Orford is Redmond Barry Distinguished Professor and Michael D. Kirby Chair of International Law at Melbourne Law School. Her publications include Reading Humanitarian Intervention (2003), International Authority and the Responsibility to Protect (2011), and Pensee Critique et Pratique du Droit International (2020). Anna Saunders is Frank Knox Memorial Fellow at Harvard Law School and a former Teaching Fellow at Melbourne Law School. Ntina Tzouvala is a Senior Lecturer at the College of Law, Australian National University. She is the author of Capitalism as Civilisation: A History of International Law (2020).
Reviews
'This volume is a rich and innovative work that advances our understanding of the role of 1917 in shaping international law and interrogates law as a factor of both radical transformation and maintenance of the status-quo. It will surely serve to push forward new research agendas ...' Raluca Grosescu, Journal of the History of International Law
Book Information
ISBN 9781108495035
Author Kathryn Greenman
Format Hardback
Page Count 400
Imprint Cambridge University Press
Publisher Cambridge University Press
Weight(grams) 790g
Dimensions(mm) 150mm * 230mm * 25mm
The 1917 October Revolution and the revolutionary Mexican Constitution shook the foundations of international law. This collection revisits their legacies.
About the Author
Kathryn Greenman is Lecturer in the Faculty of Law, University of Technology, Sydney. Anne Orford is Redmond Barry Distinguished Professor and Michael D. Kirby Chair of International Law at Melbourne Law School. Her publications include Reading Humanitarian Intervention (2003), International Authority and the Responsibility to Protect (2011), and Pensee Critique et Pratique du Droit International (2020). Anna Saunders is Frank Knox Memorial Fellow at Harvard Law School and a former Teaching Fellow at Melbourne Law School. Ntina Tzouvala is a Senior Lecturer at the College of Law, Australian National University. She is the author of Capitalism as Civilisation: A History of International Law (2020).
Reviews
'This volume is a rich and innovative work that advances our understanding of the role of 1917 in shaping international law and interrogates law as a factor of both radical transformation and maintenance of the status-quo. It will surely serve to push forward new research agendas ...' Raluca Grosescu, Journal of the History of International Law
Book Information
ISBN 9781108495035
Author Kathryn Greenman
Format Hardback
Page Count 400
Imprint Cambridge University Press
Publisher Cambridge University Press
Weight(grams) 790g
Dimensions(mm) 150mm * 230mm * 25mm
