Nature of Customary Law Legal, Historical and Philosophical Perspectives

Name: Nature of Customary Law Legal, Historical and Philosophical Perspectives
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ISBN: 9780521115568

ISBN-10: 0521115566

ISBN-13: 9780521115568

Edition: 2009

Authors: Amanda Perreau-Saussine, James B. Murphy, James B. Murphy, James B. Murphy

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List price: $51.95
Copyright year: 2009
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 7/16/2009
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 352
Size: 6.00" wide x 8.75" long x 0.50" tall
Weight: 0.484
Language: English

Amanda Perreau-Saussine is University Lecturer in Law at the University of Cambridge and a Fellow of Newnham College.



List of contributors


Table of cases


The character of customary law: an introduction




Custom and Morality: Natural Law, Customary Law, And Ius Gentium



Pitfalls in the interpretation of customary law




The moral role of conventions




Habit and convention at the foundation of custom




Custom, ordinance and natural right in Gratian's 'Decretum'




Vitoria and Suarez on Ius Gentium, natural law, and custom




Custom and positivity: an examination of the philosophic ground of the Hegel-Savigny controversy




Custom and Law: Custom, Common Law, and Customary International Law



Custom in medieval law




Siege warfare in the early modern age: a study on the customary laws of war




The idea of common law as custom




Three ways of writing a treatise on public international law: textbooks and the nature of customary international law




Custom, common law reasoning and the law of nations in the nineteenth century




Custom in international law: a normative practice account




Customary international law and the quest for global justice



Index of names