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Dr Matthew Nicholson's Outputs (2)

Universalizing the Particular; or, Hotel and Carrier Bag (2024)
Book Chapter
Nicholson, M. (2024). Universalizing the Particular; or, Hotel and Carrier Bag. In I. Aral, & J. d'Aspremont (Eds.), International Law and Universality (57-70). Oxford: Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198899419.003.0004

This chapter explores the relationship between the universal and the particular in international legal thought. I argue that contemporary, formalist international legal thought prefers the universal to the particular, that this constrains the possibi... Read More about Universalizing the Particular; or, Hotel and Carrier Bag.

New International Legal Positivism: Formalism by Another Name? (2019)
Book Chapter
Nicholson, M. (2019). New International Legal Positivism: Formalism by Another Name?. In L. (. Siliquini-Cinelli (Ed.), Legal positivism in a global and transnational age (93-119). Springer Verlag. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-24705-8_4

This chapter explores the work of Jörg Kammerhofer and Jean d’Aspremont. Through a review of Kammerhofer’s Kelsenian approach to international law and d’Aspremont’s HLA Hart-inspired theory of the sources of international law and the nature of intern... Read More about New International Legal Positivism: Formalism by Another Name?.