Book contents
- International Investment Law and Legal Theory
- Cambridge Studies in International and Comparative Law: 158
- International Investment Law and Legal Theory
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures
- Preface
- Table of Cases
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Customary International Law
- 3 Investment Precedents
- 4 Treaty Interpretation
- 5 Doctrinal Scholarship
- 6 The Regulatory Expropriation Conundrum
- 7 Expropriation: A New Beginning
- 8 Expropriation Reconstructed
- Bibliography
- Index
- Cambridge Studies in International and Comparative Law
5 - Doctrinal Scholarship
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 17 April 2021
- International Investment Law and Legal Theory
- Cambridge Studies in International and Comparative Law: 158
- International Investment Law and Legal Theory
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures
- Preface
- Table of Cases
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Customary International Law
- 3 Investment Precedents
- 4 Treaty Interpretation
- 5 Doctrinal Scholarship
- 6 The Regulatory Expropriation Conundrum
- 7 Expropriation: A New Beginning
- 8 Expropriation Reconstructed
- Bibliography
- Index
- Cambridge Studies in International and Comparative Law
Summary
Can a doctrinal scholarship which is based on the normativist-positivist framework espoused in this book do any better than mainstream legal scholarship? Starting from a critique of certain hyper-systematising approaches, the chapter introduces Kelsen’s idea of legal scholarship properly so called, one devoid of external influences because these make it impossible to correctly cognise the law. Reconstructed in this manner, doctrinal scholarship can provide a structural analysis of the law, both on the macro-level of system-coherence and on the micro-level as frame-determination. It can also give practical information on how awards have exercised their freedom within the frame of possible meanings.
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- International Investment Law and Legal TheoryExpropriation and the Fragmentation of Sources, pp. 144 - 161Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2021