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What is Critical Research in International Law? Celebrating Structuralism

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 July 2016

MARTTI KOSKENNIEMI
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Abstract

This essay is a friendly response to the colloquium on From Apology to Utopia (FATU). It restates the way critical research examines the exercise of power through analysis of (legal) language. Attention is directed especially to the empowering and enchanting effects of the law. The main point has to do with the continuing power of structuralism as a form of legal analysis.

Keywords

critical theoryFrom Apology to Utopialegal professionalismstructuralism
Type
INTERNATIONAL LEGAL THEORY: Symposium on Martti Koskenniemi's From Apology to Utopia
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Leiden Journal of International Law , Volume 29 , Issue 3 , September 2016 , pp. 727 - 735
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Copyright © Foundation of the Leiden Journal of International Law 2016 

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1 These different languages (‘justice’, ‘coherence’, ‘validity’, ‘effectiveness’ and so on) mark some of the internal divisions (or better, ‘positions’) through which the academic world of rule and policy-production organizes itself. None of them is better or worse than the others. They are just different ways of conceiving what ‘academic work’ in the field of law might be. They all have their different criteria of excellence, their traditions, standard-bearers and regular troops. Their ways of attack and defence against each other are well-known and constantly reproduced as part of the ‘structure’ of work in the legal academy.

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4 Ibid.

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6 Ibid.

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