International Law As We Know It(English, Hardcover, Boer Lianne J. M.)

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International Law As We Know It(English, Hardcover, Boer Lianne J. M.) is written by Boer Lianne J. M. and published by Cambridge University Press. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 1108484832 (ISBN 10) and 9781108484831 (ISBN 13).

International legal scholars tend to think of their work as the interpretation of rules: the application of a law 'out there' to concrete situations. This book takes a different approach to that scholarship: it views doctrine as a socio-linguistic practice. In other words, this book views legal scholars not as law-appliers, but as constructing knowledge within a particular academic discipline. By means of three close-ups of the discourse on cyberwar and international law, this book shows how international legal knowledge is constructed in ways usually overlooked: by means of footnotes, for example, or conference presentations. In so doing, this book aims to present a new way of seeing international legal scholarship: one that pays attention to the mundane parts of international legal texts and provides a different understanding of how international law as we know it comes about.