| Diversity and Self-Determination in International Law Contributor(s): Knop, Karen (Author) |
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ISBN: 0521067405 ISBN-13: 9780521067409 Publisher: Cambridge University Press OUR PRICE: $49.39 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: June 2008 Annotation: Knop's investigation takes a new approach to the problem of diversity and self-determination of peoples. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Law | International - Political Science | Human Rights |
| Dewey: 341.26 |
| Series: Cambridge Studies in International and Comparative Law |
| Physical Information: 1.02" H x 6" W x 9" (1.48 lbs) 460 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: When does international law give a group the right to choose its sovereignty? In an original perspective on this familiar question, Knop analyzes the ways that many of the groups that the right of self-determination most affects--including colonies, ethnic nations, indigenous peoples and women--have been marginalized in its interpretation. Her analysis also reveals that key cases have grappled with this problem of diversity. Challenges by marginalized groups to the culture or gender biases of international law emerge as integral to the cases, as do attempts to meet these challenges. |
Contributor Bio(s): Knop, Karen: - KAREN KNOP is Associate Professor of Law in the Faculty of Law, University of Toronto, where she teaches international law and issues of self-determination in international law. She is editor, with Sylvia Ostry, Richard Simeon and Katherine Swinton of Re-Thinking Federalism: Citizens, Markets and Governments in a Changing World (1995). |