The Nature of International Law

ISBN: 9781108636353 出版年：2019 页码：288 Miodrag A Jovanovic Cambridge University Press

Jurisprudence has up until recently largely neglected international law as a subject of philosophizing. The nature of international law tries to offset against this deficiency by providing a comprehensive explanatory account of international law. It does so within an analytical tradition, albeit within the one which departs from the nowadays dominant method of the metaphysically-driven conceptual analysis. Instead, it adopts the prototype theory of concepts, which is directed towards determining typical features constitutive of the nature of international law. The book's central finding is that those features are: normativity, institutionalization, coercive guaranteeing, and justice-aptness. Since typical features are context sensitive, their specificities at the international level are further elucidated.