Diversity and Self-Determination in International Law

When does international law give a group the right to choose its sovereignty? In an original perspective on this familiar question, Knop analyzes the ways that many of the groups that the right of self-determination most affects--including colonies, ethnic nations, indigenous peoples and women--have been marginalized in its interpretation. Her analysis also reveals that key cases have grappled with this problem of diversity. Challenges by marginalized groups to the culture or gender biases of international law emerge as integral to the cases, as do attempts to meet these challenges.

Author: Karen Knop
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 06/26/2008
Pages: 460
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.48lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 1.02d
ISBN: 9780521067409

About the Author
Knop, Karen: - KAREN KNOP is Associate Professor of Law in the Faculty of Law, University of Toronto, where she teaches international law and issues of self-determination in international law. She is editor, with Sylvia Ostry, Richard Simeon and Katherine Swinton of Re-Thinking Federalism: Citizens, Markets and Governments in a Changing World (1995).

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