The Mainstream and the Intersubjective in International Law: From Objectivity to Imagination

Henrique Marcos, Nizamuddin Ahmad Siddiqui

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Abstract

This paper argues that international law can best be understood from an intersubjective lens — an engagement of varying subjectivities searching for legal objectivity. This intersubjectivity is guided by the twin components of the legal imagination that we identify as the constitutive and the interpretative imagination. It is within these imaginative exercises that the legal rhetoric operates and ultimately shapes our worldview of international law that is both subjective and objective at the same time.
Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationDireito Internacional em Expansão
EditorsWagner Menezes
Place of PublicationBelo Horizonte
PublisherArraes Editores
Chapter10
Pages156-173
Number of pages17
ISBN (Electronic)9786559291946, 9788582383469
ISBN (Print)9786559291984
Publication statusPublished - 2022

Publication series

SeriesDireito Internacional em Expansão
Volume22

Keywords

  • scholarship in international law
  • colonialism
  • objectivity and subjectivity
  • language games
  • imagination in international law

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