1st Edition

Democracy in International Law-Making Principles from Persian Philosophy

By Salar Abbasi Copyright 2022
200 Pages
by Routledge

200 Pages
by Routledge

200 Pages
by Routledge

This book provides a critique of current international law-making and draws on a set of principles from Persian philosophers to present an alternative to influence the development of international law-making procedure. The work conceptualizes a substantive notion of democracy in order to regulate international law-making mechanisms under a set of principles developed between the twelfth and... Read more

Introduction

1. Democracy In International Law-Making

2. Multilevel International Law-Making: The Current Status

3. Democratic Egalitarian Multilateralism: Genealogy Of A New Understanding On Law And Democracy In The Global Context

4. Democratic Egalitarian Multilateralism And International Legal Theory

5. Democratic Egalitarian Multilateralism In The International Law-Making Apparatus

Conclusion

Biography

Dr. Salar Abbasi is an Alexander von Humboldt Post-Doctoral Fellow at Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, Faculty of Law, Leopold Wenger Institute for Ancient Legal History and Papyrus Research. He has taught ‘international legal theory’, ‘introduction to Islamic legal theory’, and ‘Islamic legal theory in the global context’ at Lisbon and Porto Campuses of Universidade Catolica Portuguesa, Faculty of Law. His research interest is to discover neglected heritages of legal thought, and apply them in responding to conceptual queries of international law.