Formalism, fragmentation, freedom : Kantian themes in today's international law

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Empire and International Law: The Real Spanish Contribution

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Rights, History, Critique

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Histories of International Law : Significance and Problems for a Critical View

2013 Laura H. Carnell Workshop at Temple University Beasley School of LawNon peer reviewe

Formalismo, fragmentación y libertad : Temas kantianos en el derecho internacional actual

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The Pull of the Mainstream

A Review of Human Rights and Humanitarian Norms as Customary Law by Theodor Mero

Constitutionalism as mindset : reflections on Kantian themes about international law and globalization

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Law of Nations and the "Conflict of the Faculties"

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A response

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On the religious Origins of Capitalism

Political theology’s recent rise to academic prominence has, no doubt, been inspired by the sense of a certain staleness of standard (read: Anglo-American) analytical political and legal theory. Especially postcolonial and postmodern philosophy has resuscitated debates about the reality of secularization in Europe, pointing out that much of our shared political metaphysic is indeed that – a metaphysic – with close historical links to debates in theology. That should be no surprise. For almost half a millennium theology stood as the primus inter pares among the three "higher faculties" at European universities. The best minds at work in Europe explained the social and political changes to European audiences within a fully God-centric intellectual universe. Awareness of that fact, as Wim Decock points out in this massive and brilliant work, not only assists us in understanding the development of our political and legal vocabularies. It also enables us to grasp the contingency of our present debates, the way opposite standpoints on political and legal obligation refer back to assumptions about human nature, the roles of individual and society and the nature of "law" that are hard to detach from religious speculation. ..