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
3 - A Cacophony of Criteria
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
Thirty-four different formulations to define abuse of right can easily be derived from a variety of sources. To distill them into a single, internationally acceptable formulation seems impossible. To content one’s self with the words ‘abuse of right’ on the footing that you know it when you see it is to follow a road to arbitrariness. Abuse of process is sui generis and does not belong in the category of abuse of rights.
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- The Unruly Notion of Abuse of Rights , pp. 36 - 44Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2020