International Law and Time: Narratives and Techniques
In: Ius Gentium: Comparative Perspectives on Law and Justice Series v.101
Intro -- Preface -- Contents -- About the Editors -- The Multifaceted Notion of Time in International Law -- 1 International Law and Time -- 2 The Conundrum of Time -- 3 On This Book: Thinking About International Law and Time -- 4 The Multifaceted Notion of Time in International Law -- 5 Narratives and Techniques -- References -- Constructing and Attributing Meaning to Time in International Law -- Lawyers as Creators of Law's Temporal Reality: A Pragmatic Approach to International Law -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Formalism, Pragmatism and Legal Reasoning -- 3 Formalism, Pragmatism and Temporality -- 4 Epistemological Dualism of the Formalist Approach -- 4.1 Abstraction as a Means of Separation -- 4.2 Generality as Formal Inclusion -- 4.3 Building Commensurability: Deductive Logic -- 4.4 Formalism and Temporality -- 5 Epistemological Uniduality of the Pragmatic Approach -- 5.1 Abstraction as an Operation of Distinction -- 5.2 Generality as Type -- 5.3 Building Commensurability: Abduction -- 5.4 Pragmatism and Temporality -- 6 Hermeneutics of the Formalist Approach -- 6.1 Consequences for Temporality -- 7 Hermeneutics of the Pragmatic Approach -- 7.1 Consequences for Temporality -- 8 Conclusion -- References -- Human Rights in Time: Temporalization of Human Rights in Historical Representation -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Setting the Stage: Perspectives on the Histories of Human Rights -- 3 The Relevance of Time for Human Rights and History -- 4 The Representation of the Past in the Present -- 5 Temporalization in the Representation of the History of Human Rights -- 6 Conclusion -- References -- Interstellar Justice Now: Back to the Future of International Law -- 1 Ignition (Just Before the Now) -- 2 Interstellar Time (When the Feminine Redeems the Masculine, When the Complex Redeems the Binary).