Book contents
- The Unruly Notion of Abuse of Rights
- The Unruly Notion of Abuse of Rights
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Foreword: The Thesis and a Confession
- 1 Matters of Nomenclature
- 2 An Idealistic but Troublesome Impulse
- 3 A Cacophony of Criteria
- 4 A ‘Principle’ with No Rules?
- 5 The Challenge of Establishing Universal Principles
- 6 The Politis/Lauterpacht Quest to Elevate the Concept
- 7 Rejection and Retrenchment
- 8 The Vanishing Prospect
- Index
1 - Matters of Nomenclature
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 16 July 2020
- The Unruly Notion of Abuse of Rights
- The Unruly Notion of Abuse of Rights
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Foreword: The Thesis and a Confession
- 1 Matters of Nomenclature
- 2 An Idealistic but Troublesome Impulse
- 3 A Cacophony of Criteria
- 4 A ‘Principle’ with No Rules?
- 5 The Challenge of Establishing Universal Principles
- 6 The Politis/Lauterpacht Quest to Elevate the Concept
- 7 Rejection and Retrenchment
- 8 The Vanishing Prospect
- Index
Summary
Empty phrases and the need for having definite criteria to generate a rule of decision. Unhelpfulness of the word abuse. Arbitrariness created by elevating unnecessary abstractions to the status of fundamental principles.
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- The Unruly Notion of Abuse of Rights , pp. 1 - 16Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2020