Daniel Costelloe

Stephen Allen

Malgosia Fitzmaurice

Paul Gragl

Edward Guntrip

The Oxford Handbook of Jurisdiction in International Law provides an authoritative and comprehensive analysis of the concept of jurisdiction in international law. Jurisdiction plays a fundamental role in international law, limiting the exercise of legal authority over international legal subjects. But despite its importance, the concept has remained, until now, underdeveloped. Discussions of jurisdiction in international law regularly refer to classic heads of jurisdiction based on territoriality or nationality, or use the SS Lotus decision of the Permanent Court of International Justice as a starting point. However, traditional understandings of jurisdiction are facing new challenges. Globalization has increased the need for jurisdiction to be applied extraterritorially, non-State forms of law provide new theoretical challenges and intersections between different forms of jurisdiction have become more intricate. This Handbook provides a necessary re-examination of the concept of jurisdiction in international law through a thematic analysis of its history, its contemporary application, and how it needs to adapt to encompass future developments in international law. It examines some of the most contentious elements of jurisdiction by considering how the concept is being applied in specific substantive and institutional settings.

The Oxford Handbook of Jurisdiction in International Law

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2005 im Fachbereich Philosophie - Philosophie des 20. Jahrhunderts / Gegenwart, Note: Gut, Karl-Franzens-Universitat Graz (Institut fur Philosophie), Veranstaltung: Philosophie der Politik, 7 Quellen im Literaturverzeichnis, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Sir Karl Raimund Popper (1902-1994) war wohl zweifelsfrei einer der einflussreichsten und auch vielseitigsten Denker des 20. Jahrhunderts. Gerade durch seine um Exaktheit, Klarheit und Einfachheit bemuhte Erkenntnis- und Wissenschaftstheorie gelangte er zu einer Soziologie und politischen Philosophie, die wie keine andere in unbedingter Weise die Demokratie verteidigte und eine offene Gesellschaftsordnung des Staates forderte. Die geschlossene Gesellschaft hingegen verhindert die Autonomie ihrer Burger, indem sie auf Holismus und Kollektivismus als oberste Prinzipien baut und ihre Legitimitat zumeist in einer historizistischen Geschichtsauffassung sucht.

Paul Gragl

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