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Notes for the History of New Approaches to International Legal Studies: Not a Map but Perhaps a Compass

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This work offers the first introductory chrono-bibliographical approach to David Kennedy’s highly diversified, greatly heterogeneous, and provocatively engaging scholarly work, since his pioneering application of structuralism to international law to his latest inquiries on the nature of expertise in the age of global law and governance. This survey of three decades of Kennedy’s work is contextualized within the intellectual scaffolding of New Approaches to International Legal Studies (NAILS) since the early-mid 1980s.

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LL.B. (Complutense) MPhil & Ph.D. cand. (UPO, Seville) M.A. & Ph.D. (The Graduate Institute, Geneva) LL.M (Harvard)

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Notes

  1. 1.

    The expression is by Kennedy, see Kennedy 2006a, 983, 984.

  2. 2.

    In the area of his contribution to the study of global governance and the politics of expertise, see among others: Kennedy 2008, 2009, 2011a Kennedy 2005, 5 and Kennedy 2001b, 117.

  3. 3.

    See for the seminal work, Kennedy 1988a, 1.

  4. 4.

    See Tennant and Kennedy 1994. See, e.g. also, Skouteris 1997; Skouteris and Korhonen 1998.

  5. 5.

    See MacDonald 2011.

  6. 6.

    See Paulus 2001.

  7. 7.

    See Cot 2006, 587–589. See also Koskenniemi 1997, 391.

  8. 8.

    See Scobbie 2006, 83, 102. See analyzing the notion of “intrumentalism” in international law Koskenniemi 2003, 89.

  9. 9.

    See Korhonen 1996, 1.

  10. 10.

    For Kennedy’s contribution to critical theory in international law in the 1980s, see, among others: Kennedy 1980, 353—this work is regarded as the first application of structuralism to international law. See also Kennedy 1987a, 1988a. Kennedy’s work had a great influence in Koskenniemi 1989.

  11. 11.

    See Kennedy 1987a.

  12. 12.

    See Kennedy 1980, 353.

  13. 13.

    Kennedy 1988a, 7.

  14. 14.

    Ibid. 11.

  15. 15.

    Ibid. 10.

  16. 16.

    Ibid. 11.

  17. 17.

    Ibid. 6.

  18. 18.

    Ibid. 2.

  19. 19.

    Ibid. This phrase constitutes a clear homage echo to a classic phrase of the CLS’ manifesto by Roberto Unger, otherwise, the well-known “When we came, they [the law professors] were like a priesthood that had lost their faith and kept their jobs. They stood in tedious embarrassment before cold altars. But we turned away from those altars and found the mind's opportunity in the heart's revenge”. Unger 1986, 116.

  20. 20.

    Kennedy 1999, 34.

  21. 21.

    Ibid. 35.

  22. 22.

    Ibid. 35.

  23. 23.

    Llewellyn 1931, 1922, 1938.

  24. 24.

    Kennedy 2000a,117.

  25. 25.

    Ibid. 118.

  26. 26.

    For a book entirely consecrated to offer a thematically ordered perspective to the scholarly literature associated to critical legal studies, see Bauman 1996.

  27. 27.

    For an introduction to CLS see Anon. 1982, 1669.

  28. 28.

    Kennedy 1997, 366.

  29. 29.

    Portrayed as “a reaction against American classical thought which in turn was a reaction against pre-classical legal thought” see Singer 1988 465, 476.

  30. 30.

    See Anon. 1982, 1677.

  31. 31.

    See Kennedy 1985–1986, 209, 210.

  32. 32.

    Ibid. 271.

  33. 33.

    Ibid.

  34. 34.

    Kennedy 1976, 695.

  35. 35.

    Purvis 1991, 81.

  36. 36.

    Kennedy 1990, 385, 386. See also Kennedy 2006a, 983 (noting that FATU “could well turn out to have been the last great original treatise in the international law field”).

  37. 37.

    Ibid. 347.

  38. 38.

    Otherwise, “The more sophisticated a person’s legal thinking, regardless of her political stance, the more likely she is to believe that all issues within a doctrinal field reduce to a single dilemma of the degree of collective as opposed to individual self-determination”, Kennedy Duncan 1979, 213.

  39. 39.

    Rasulov 2005, 799, 800.

  40. 40.

    Kennedy 1985–1986, 276.

  41. 41.

    Kennedy offers in his work as a clear sample of this post-structuralist challenge in stressing that “neither structuralism nor critical theory has provided a method which lawyers can deploy against their theoretical and doctrinal malaise” one which he identifies as “transcending the theory/practice distinction”, Ibid.

  42. 42.

    For Kennedy’s contribution to the exam and shaping of critical theory in American Law in the 1980s, see, among others, Kennedy 1986, 1989.

  43. 43.

    Ibid. 364.

  44. 44.

    Ibid. 372.

  45. 45.

    In the area of Kennedy’s contribution to the history of international law in the 1980s, see among others: Kennedy 1986, 1987b, 841.

  46. 46.

    Kennedy 1998, 1, 12.

  47. 47.

    See Brown Scott 1934.

  48. 48.

    See Kennedy 1986. See, De la Rasilla 2012.

  49. 49.

    Haggenmacher 1983, 27, 80.

  50. 50.

    Kennedy 1988a, 1, 16.

  51. 51.

    See Koskenniemi 1989, and Kennedy 1990, 390.

  52. 52.

    See Koskenniemi 2002.

  53. 53.

    See e.g. Anghie 2004.

  54. 54.

    Kennedy 1985b, 1377.

  55. 55.

    See Kennedy 2009.

  56. 56.

    Kennedy 1985b, 1420.

  57. 57.

    Ibid. 1417–1423.

  58. 58.

    Ibid. 1423.

  59. 59.

    See e.g., Sarat and Kearns 1995.

  60. 60.

    See Kennedy 1995, 191.

  61. 61.

    See especially Talgren 1999.

  62. 62.

    Kennedy 1997.

  63. 63.

    Kennedy 2001a, 101. Kennedy 2004.

  64. 64.

    Specially, Kennedy 1985b, 361, 362.

  65. 65.

    See in the 1980s, Kennedy 1988a, 1.

  66. 66.

    Kennedy 1991a, 373. See also Webb and Kennedy 1990, 633.

  67. 67.

    Kennedy 1994a, 330.

  68. 68.

    In the area of Kennedy’s contribution to the study of critical trends of international legal thought in the 1990s. See Tennant and Kennedy 1994 and Kennedy 2000a, 104. For an introduction in Spanish Contreras and De la Rasilla 2007.

  69. 69.

    See Cass 1996. See also Purvis 1991.

  70. 70.

    See Falk 1967, 477.

  71. 71.

    Kennedy 1988a, 7.

  72. 72.

    Kennedy 1999, 15.

  73. 73.

    For a chart Ibid., 36.

  74. 74.

    Koskenniemi 1996, 337.

  75. 75.

    See Kennedy 1997.

  76. 76.

    Kennedy 2000b, 491.

  77. 77.

    Paulus 2009, 69.

  78. 78.

    Carty 1991, 66.

  79. 79.

    Cass 1996, 341.

  80. 80.

    Koskenniemi 2003, 4, 8.

  81. 81.

    Koskenniemi 2002.

  82. 82.

    See an interesting approach by Kemmerer 2008, 71.

  83. 83.

    Kennedy 1988a, 122.

  84. 84.

    Berman, 2008, 88.

  85. 85.

    See among the extensive bibliography, Beaulieu and Gabbard 2006.

  86. 86.

    Foucault 1977, 162.

  87. 87.

    See Anghie 2004.

  88. 88.

    In the area of Kennedy’s contribution, through the 1990s and early twenty-first century to the study of the discipline of international law in the U.S., Kennedy 1994b, 7. Kennedy 1999, 9. Kennedy 2000a, 335, 386 and Kennedy 2003b, 397.

  89. 89.

    See Kennedy 1996, 385.

  90. 90.

    Koskenniemi 2002, 15.

  91. 91.

    In the area of Kennedy’s contribution to the study of the interpenetration between international law and international relations see, among others, Kennedy 1995 330. Kennedy 1992, 237.

  92. 92.

    In the area of Kennedy’s contribution to the analysis of the influence of religion on international law, see among others Kennedy 1988b, 1991a. 1998.

  93. 93.

    Kennedy 1997.

  94. 94.

    See Fisher III & Kennedy 2006a.

  95. 95.

    In the area of Kennedy’s contribution to the study of comparative law see Kennedy 1997, 2. See also Kennedy 2003a, 131.

  96. 96.

    Kennedy 2004.

  97. 97.

    Kennedy 2009.

  98. 98.

    In his area of contribution to the study of war and humanitarian international law, see among others, Kennedy 2006a. Kennedy 2007, 173.

  99. 99.

    In the area of his contribution to the study of global governance and the politics of expertise, see among others Kennedy 2011a, 2008, 2009; Kennedy 2005, 5 & Kennedy 2001b 117.

  100. 100.

    In the area of Kennedy’s contribution to the study of the inter-relation between law and economic development see, among others, Kennedy, 2012. Kennedy 2006a, c.

  101. 101.

    Kennedy 2011b, 1.

  102. 102.

    Kennedy 2006–2007, 395, 398.

  103. 103.

    Kennedy 2008, 827, 846.

  104. 104.

    Ibid.

  105. 105.

    Kennedy 2011a.

  106. 106.

    Kennedy 2008, 827.

  107. 107.

    Ibid. 835.

  108. 108.

    Ibid. 827.

  109. 109.

    Ibid. 828.

  110. 110.

    Ibid.

  111. 111.

    Ibid.

  112. 112.

    Ibid.

  113. 113.

    Ibid.

  114. 114.

    Ibid. 836.

  115. 115.

    Ibid. 840.

  116. 116.

    Ibid. 845.

  117. 117.

    Ibid. 840.

  118. 118.

    Ibid. 848.

  119. 119.

    Ibid. 848–849.

  120. 120.

    See Kennedy 1985b, 361, 380.

  121. 121.

    Ibid. 381.

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