Dividing the State

Legitimacy, Secession and the Doctrine of Oppression

Paul Groarke (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

220 Seiten

2017
Routledge (Verlag)
978-0-8153-8861-6 (ISBN)

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The events of recent history affirm the urgent need for a satisfactory definition of the conditions under which a minority within a state has the legal right to secede. Although the concept of sovereignty has been progressively weakened, it still presents the major theoretical difficulty in this area. There is currently no source of international law that would give a legal body like a court the authority to recognize the division of an oppressive or illegitimate state into separate legal entities. This book accordingly argues for a global system of justice based on a domestic model of compulsory law. It considers some of the technical, procedural and evidentiary issues that would arise in instituting such a regime, and develops the conceptual framework essential for the provision of legal remedies for gross violations of our fundamental human rights.

Paul Groarke

Contents: Introduction; Legitimacy; The legal concept of legitimacy; The historical problem of sovereignty; Solving the historical problem; Existing theories of secession; Institutional and legal issues; Philosophical framework; A legal theory of secession; Practice issues; Conclusion: institutional reform; Select Bibliography; Index.

Erscheinungsdatum	15.01.2018
Verlagsort	New York
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Gewicht	453 g
Themenwelt	Recht / Steuern ► Allgemeines / Lexika
	Recht / Steuern ► EU / Internationales Recht
	Recht / Steuern ► Öffentliches Recht ► Völkerrecht
ISBN-10	0-8153-8861-6 / 0815388616
ISBN-13	978-0-8153-8861-6 / 9780815388616
Zustand	Neuware