Diversity and Self-Determination in International Law (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780521781787)

When does international law give a group the right to choose its sovereignty? In an original perspective on this familiar question, Knop analyzes the ways that many of the groups that the right of self-determination most affects--including colonies, ethnic nations, indigenous peoples and women--have been marginalized in its interpretation. Her analysis also reveals that key cases have grappled with this problem of diversity. Challenges by marginalized groups to the culture or gender biases of international law emerge as integral to the cases, as do attempts to meet these challenges.

Author: Karen Knop
ISBN-10: 0521781787
ISBN-13: 9780521781787
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Language: English
Published: 04/18/2002
Pages: 460
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.86lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 1.19d