Document Type
Article
Publication Date
6-2005
ISSN
1871-9740
Publisher
Brill Academic Publishers
Language
en-US
Abstract
This short article is a synopsis of a doctoral thesis entitled Law as Communication: A Concept of International Law. Embedded in the legal theory of philosopher Joseph Raz - who argued that "whatever else the law is, it either claims legitimate authority, is held to possess it, or both" - this analysis of international law's claim of legitimate authority is based on an ethnographic study of the International Criminal Tribunals for the former- Yugoslavia and Rwanda.
The analysis of international law's claim of legitimate authority, which uses semiotics and performance-studies perspective, is then used as a basis for an examination of issues in analytic legal philosophy: the relationship between the phenomenology of law and its concept and the social-psychological dimensions of methodologies used and advocated for by legal philosophers.
Recommended Citation
Maya Steinitz,
The Ad Hoc International Criminal Tribunals and a Jurisprudence of the Deviant
,
in
7
International Law FORUM du Droit International
119
(2005).
Available at:
https://scholarship.law.bu.edu/faculty_scholarship/3469
