Risk and the Regulation of Uncertainty in International Law
Monika; Rayf Ambrus
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Description for Risk and the Regulation of Uncertainty in International Law
Hardback. International law is a system of rules and principles that regulates behaviour between international actors in the present, but is based on what is expected to happen in the future. This book explores how risk and uncertainty are imagined, articulated, and managed across the various fields of international law. Editor(s): Ambrus, Monika; Rayfuse, Rosemary; Werner, Wouter. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: JPS; LBB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 156. .
Increasingly, international legal arrangements imagine future worlds or create space for experts to articulate how the future can be conceptualized and managed. With the increased specialization of international law, a series of functional regimes and sub-regimes has emerged, each with their own imageries, vocabularies, expert-knowledge, and rules to translate our hopes and fears for the future into action in the present. At issue in the development of these regimes are not just competing predictions of the future based on what we know about what has happened in the past and what we know is happening in the present. Rather, ... Read more
Increasingly, international legal arrangements imagine future worlds or create space for experts to articulate how the future can be conceptualized and managed. With the increased specialization of international law, a series of functional regimes and sub-regimes has emerged, each with their own imageries, vocabularies, expert-knowledge, and rules to translate our hopes and fears for the future into action in the present. At issue in the development of these regimes are not just competing predictions of the future based on what we know about what has happened in the past and what we know is happening in the present. Rather, ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
Weight
28g
Number of Pages
304
Place of Publication
Oxford, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780198795896
SKU
V9780198795896
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About Monika; Rayf Ambrus
Monika Ambrus is senior researcher at the Institute of Legal Sciences, Hungarian Academy of Sciences. She was previously an Assistant Professor at the University of Groningen and Lecturer at the Erasmus University Rotterdam, where she obtained her PhD in 2010 focusing on European anti-discrimination law. Her current research interests cover the concept of equality across various fields of law, (the ... Read more
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