Diversity and Self-Determination in International Law

Karen Knop (University of Toronto)

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Cambridge University Press
05 August 2008

International relations; Law; International humanitarian law

Series: Cambridge Studies in International and Comparative Law

The emergence of new states and independence movements after the Cold War has intensified the long-standing disagreement among international lawyers over the right of self-determination, especially the right of secession. Knop shifts the discussion from the articulation of the right to its interpretation. She argues that the practice of interpretation involves and illuminates a problem of diversity raised by the exclusion of many of the groups that self-determination most affects. Distinguishing different types of exclusion and the relationships between them reveals the deep structures, biases and stakes in the decisions and scholarship on self-determination. Knop's analysis also reveals that the leading cases have grappled with these embedded inequalities. Challenges by colonies, ethnic nations, indigenous peoples, women and others to the gender and cultural biases of international law emerge as integral to the interpretation of self-determination historically, as do attempts by judges and other institutional interpreters to meet these challenges.

By: Karen Knop (University of Toronto)
Imprint: Cambridge University Press
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Volume: 20
Dimensions: Height: 230mm, Width: 150mm, Spine: 30mm
Weight: 694g
ISBN: 9780521067409
ISBN 10: 0521067405
Series: Cambridge Studies in International and Comparative Law
Pages: 460
Publication Date: 05 August 2008
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

KAREN KNOP is Associate Professor of Law in the Faculty of Law, University of Toronto, where she teaches international law and issues of self-determination in international law. She is editor, with Sylvia Ostry, Richard Simeon and Katherine Swinton of Re-Thinking Federalism: Citizens, Markets and Governments in a Changing World (1995).

Reviews for Diversity and Self-Determination in International Law

Review of the hardback: '... Karen Knop presents a series of careful, yet provocative, readings of international legal texts on self-determination.' Fleur Johns, University of Sydney, , Leiden Journal of International Law Review of the hardback: 'Knop has written a highly impressive, intelligent and sensitive study which is compulsory reading for anyone with an interest in self-determination and, more broadly, for anyone interested in seeing how international law can be used creatively yet responsibly.' International Journal on Minority and Group Rights