Philosophical Foundations of International Law: Legally-Protected Interests

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1 See, for instance, chapter 7 dedicated to the exploration of communitarianism in the Western and African philosophical traditions. Kafayat Motilewa Quadri, Vahyala Kwaga and Tosin Osasona, ´Forging a Modern African Perspective on ‘Unity’ as a Collective Legal Interest in International Criminal Law´ pp. 264 et sq.

2 Rod Rastan argues in chapter 9 that countless international instruments reveal humanity´s struggle with multiple conflicting identities. The idea of ´unity´ cannot be superimposed on these patterns. Rather, Radstan, invites enhanced self-perception to question the structures that have been normalized. See Rod Rastan, ´Unity and Disunity in International Criminal Justice´, p. 361.

3 For instance, Morten Bergsmo, Emiliano J. Buis and SONG Tianying argue in chapter 1 that forward-looking international law should encourage deliberative participation in law-making of various populous non-Western states. The invitation is to go beyond labelling states and towards inclusion. See Morten Bergsmo, Emiliano J. Buis and SONG Tianying, ´Protected Interests in International Criminal Law´, p. 3.

4 For instance, David Baragwanath argues ´[r]econciliation in the context of criminal law concerns principle and practicality in restoring human relations following discord¨. See chapter 5 ‘Reconciliation’ as a Philosophical Foundational Concept in International Criminal Law´ p. 158.

5 Pierre Bourdieu, ´The Force of Law: Toward a Sociology of the Juridical Field´ (1987).38 Hastings L.J. 814

6 Randall Collins, Interaction Ritual Chains (Princeton University Press, 2005).

7 Morten Bergsmo, Emiliano J. Buis and SONG Tianying, ´Protected Interests in International Criminal Law´, p. 32.

8 Eg. Kavitha Chinnaiyan, Glorious Alchemy: Living the Lalitā Sahasranāma (New Sarum Press, 2020).

9 See chapter 8 by Surabhi Sharma, ´Humanity and Unity: Indian Thought and Legal Interests Protected by International Criminal Law´, p. 286 et sq.

10 For more on the general topic of phenomenology see Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Phenomenology of Perception (Routledge, 2005; original work first published 1945).

11 See Rod Radstan´s chapter 9 for more on questioning established interpretative frameworks normalized through discourse, p. 361.

12 Marina Aksenova, ´Global Citizenship and the Right of Access to Justice: Adapting T.H. Marshall’s Ideas to the Interconnected World´(2023) Humanit.Vol 14(2).