Dr Matthew Nicholson's Outputs (2)

Re-Situating Utopia (2019)
Book
Nicholson, M. (2019). Re-Situating Utopia. Brill Academic Publishers. https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004401204

In Re-Situating Utopia Matthew Nicholson argues that international law and international legal theory are dominated by a ‘blueprint’ utopianism that presents international law as the means of achieving a better global future. Contesting the dominance... Read More about Re-Situating Utopia.

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?.