International Law and the Significance of Disciplinary Boundaries: Special Regimes as Communities of Practice

by Eric De Brabandere and Ulf Linderfalk

Over the last thirty or so years, international law and legal practice have become increasingly more specialized and diversified. These developments come with an increasingly divergent legal practice, in what has been coined as 'special regimes'. This book proposes a new understanding of the concept of a special regime to explain why specialists in different fields of international law do similar things differently. It argues that special regimes...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1009543202
• ISBN13: 9781009543200
• Release Date: November 2024
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 190 Pages