Thursday, May 1, 2008

Marks: International Law on the Left: Re-examining Marxist Legacies

Susan Marks (King's College London - Law) has published International Law on the Left: Re-examining Marxist Legacies (Cambridge Univ. Press 2008). Contents include:
  • Martti Koskenniemi, What should international lawyers learn from Karl Marx?
  • B.S. Chimni, An outline of a Marxist course on public international law
  • China Miéville, The commodity-form theory of international law: an introduction
  • Bill Bowring, Positivism versus self-determination: the contradictions of Soviet international law
  • Tony Carty, Marxism and international law: perspectives for the American (twenty-first) century?
  • A. Claire Cutler, Toward a radical political economy critique of transnational economic law
  • Brad Roth, Marxian insights for the Human Rights Project
  • Obiora Okafor, Marxian embraces (and de-couplings) in Upendra Baxi’s Human Rights scholarship: a case study
  • Susan Marks, Exploitation as an international legal concept