Le Centre de droit international a le plaisir de vous annoncer les prochains midis du centre qui auront lieu dans le courant du mois de juin.

• Jeudi 2 juin : Elise Dermine (ULB), Le droit au travail et les politiques d’activation des personnes sans emploi. Une étude critique de l’action du droit international des droits humains dans la recomposition des politiques sociales nationales. Inscription au lien suivant : http://doodle.com/poll/8e6regydiwip495w
• Lundi 13 juin : Jean d’Aspremont (University of Manchester) présentera son nouveau livre intitulé: « The Gospels of International Law – The Genealogical Structure of International Legal Reasoning ». Inscription au lien suivant : http://doodle.com/poll/zn395bz97kp95uq6

Descriptif: This book lays bare a common pattern of international legal reasoning whereby the fundamental doctrines of international law are meant to be derived from a few international instruments to which they are genealogically linked. In doing so, it turns the attention to a liberal mode of legal reasoning which eluded the intense scrutiny to which the liberal structure of legal argumentation was subjected two decades ago. This much overlooked liberal pattern of international legal reasoning manifests itself in the common thinking that modes of legal reasoning put in place by the main doctrines of international law are the product of some key authoritative international instruments like the Statute of the International Court of Justice, the Montevideo Convention on Rights and Duties of State, the 2001 Articles on States Responsibility, the Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties, etc. For instance, international lawyers commonly build their arguments in relation to sources of international law as if the doctrine of sources is derived from Article 38 of the Statute of the International Court. In the same vein, it is constantly assumed that legal claims about statehood should follow modes of legal reasoning prescribed by Montevideo Convention on Rights and Duties of States. The same holds for the doctrines of responsibility and hierarchy as well as many others. This book is premised on the idea that current descriptive models exclusively based on rules, sources, law-making, authoritative or social processes, interpretation or rhetoric are incapable of shedding light on this liberal pattern of legal reasoning in international law. The disclosure thereof is made possible by a new expository framework that specifically distinguishes between organised packages of modes of legal reasoning (gospels) and authoritative repositories (canonical text) of international law. According to the image of international legal reasoning presented in this book, these two distinct components of international legal reasoning need to be united by a genealogical artifice whereby the gospels of international law – e.g. sources, statehood, ius cogens, responsibility, etc. – are presented, discussed, interpreted and argued as if they are derived from a handful of canonical texts – e.g. the Statute of the International Court of Justice, the Montevideo Convention on Rights and Duties of States, the Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties, and the Articles on State Responsibility, to name only a few.

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