8 octobre 2017

OUVRAGE : V. Jeutner, Irresolvable Norm Conflicts in International Law: The Concept of a Legal Dilemma

Valentin JEUTNER

Conventionally, international legal scholarship concerned with norm conflicts focuses on identifying how international law can or should resolve them. This book adopts a different approach. It focuses on identifying those norm conflicts that law cannot and should not resolve. The book offers an unprecedented, controversial, yet sophisticated, argument in favour of construing such irresolvable conflicts as legal dilemmas. Legal dilemmas exist when a legal actor confronts a conflict between at least two legal norms that cannot be avoided or resolved. Addressing both academics and practitioners, the book aims to identify the character and consequences of legal dilemmas, to distil their legal function within the sphere of international law, and to encourage serious theoretical and practical investigation into the conditions that lead to a legal dilemma.


TABLE OF CONTENTS

Introduction
A. Objectives
B. Overview
I. The Definition of a Legal Dilemma
A. The Definition of a Legal Dilemma
B. Factors Causing the Emergence of Dilemmas
C. Distinguishing Epistemic and Metaphysical Undecidability
II. The Possibility of a Legal Dilemma
A. The limitation of Norm Conflict Resolution Devices
B. Limitations of Norm Conflict Accomodation Mechanisms
III. The Decision of a Legal Dilemma
A. Proposal
B. Theorical Objections
C. Pratical Objections
Conclusion
A. A Theory of Irresolvable Norm Conflicts
B. The Concept of a Legal Dilemma


Valentin JEUTNER, Irresolvable Norm Conflicts in International Law: The Concept of a Legal Dilemma, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2017 (208 pp.)


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