CONTENTS:
Acknowledgment
Introduction
Foreground: Revolutionary Times?
Critical Times; Critical Scholarship
A Materialist Approach to International Law
Revolutions of All Shapes and Sizes
The Structure of the Book
Why Law Anyway?
Chapter 1: Revolution and Revolutionary Praxis
I: Introduction
I. Revolution in Existing Scholarship
II. The Conceptual History of Revolution
III: Marxist Revolution – Political and Social; Bourgeois and Proletarian
IV: Revolutionary Agency
V: Conclusion
Chapter 2: International Law and International Legal Praxis
I: Introduction
II: The Ambiguous Promise of International Law
III: The Politics of Law and Fundamental Legal Indeterminacy
IV: Pashukanis and the Commodity Form Theory of Law
V: The Brutal Heart of Law
VI: Revolutionary Praxis in Law
VII: Conclusion
Chapter 3: The Soviet Relationship to International Law
I: Introduction
II: Background – Revolution, Foreign Policy and the Law
III: The Soviet ‘Approach’ to International Law
IV: The View From Without
V: Common International Legal Practice?
VI: Understanding the Soviet ‘Approach’
VII: Revolutionary Legal Praxis and the Soviet example
VIII: Conclusion
Chapter 4: The Third World and the New International Economic Order
I: Introduction
II: Background
III: The Third World relationship to International Law
IV: Bandung; Non-Aligned Movement and the G77; UNCTAD
V: OPEC: Commodities, commodity booms and Oil – the exception
VI: Resolutions
VII: Revolutionary Legal Praxis and the Third World – An Assessment *
VIII: Conclusion *
Conclusion *
Counter-revolutionary times
The importance of reclaiming revolution
The possibility of revolutionary praxis as legal praxis
Fundamental legal relations
Soviet legal practice: between pragmatism and revolution
Third World legal practice: between idealism and revolution
The vulnerable heart of law: property and contract
Bibliography
indexBiography
Owen Taylor is an independent researcher, currently based in Marseille. He completed his doctorate in Law at SOAS, University of London.
