TY  - BOOK
AU  - Chiam,Madelaine
TI  - International law in public debate
SN  - 9781108588584 (ebook)
AV  - KU2060 .C45 2021
U1  - 341.60994 23
PY  - 2021///
CY  - Cambridge
PB  - Cambridge University Press
KW  - International law
KW  - Australia
KW  - Language
KW  - Iraq War, 2003-2011
KW  - Participation, Australian
KW  - Vietnam War, 1961-1975
KW  - World War, 1914-1918
KW  - Foreign relations
KW  - Law and legislation
N1  - Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 30 Nov 2021); International law in public debate -- A 'popular' international law -- Public Debate in 2003 : The Iraq War -- Public Debate in 1965-66 : The Vietnam War -- Public Debate in 1916 : The First World War -- Conclusion
N2  - Public debates in the language of international law have occurred across the 20th and 21st centuries and have produced a popular form of international law that matters for international practice. This book analyses the people who used international law and how they used it in debates over Australia's participation in the 2003 Iraq War, the Vietnam War and the First World War. It examines texts such as newspapers, parliamentary debates, public protests and other expressions of public opinion. It argues that these interventions produced a form of international law that shares a vocabulary and grammar with the expert forms of that language and distinct competences in order to be persuasive. This longer history also illustrates a move from the use of international legal language as part of collective justifications to the use of international law as an autonomous justification for state action
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108588584
ER  -