"Contents" [2020] ELECD 70; in Linderfalk, Ulf (ed), "Understanding Jus Cogens in International Law and International Legal Discourse" (Edward Elgar Publishing, 2020) v

Book Title: Understanding Jus Cogens in International Law and International Legal Discourse

Editor(s): Linderfalk, Ulf

Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing

Section Title: Contents

Number of pages: 3

Extract:

Contents
Acknowledgements viii

1. Introduction 1
1.1 Researching the jus cogens regime 1
1.2 In search of identifying criteria 7
1.2.1 The significance of the Vienna Convention 7
1.2.2 Identifying criteria suggested by discussants 9
1.2.3 The many suggested examples of jus cogens norms 15
1.3 In search of legal consequences 19
1.3.1 The significance of the Vienna Convention 19
1.3.2 The many suggested examples of legal
consequences 23
1.3.3 Why discussants disagree 28
1.4 Ways ahead: the necessity of a metaperspective 34

2. Legal positivism and legal idealism 40
2.1 Introduction 40
2.2 Legal positivism 41
2.2.1 The concept of law 41
2.2.2 Law and value 44
2.2.3 The validity of legal norms 46
2.2.4 Law and legal structure 47
2.2.5 Law and social order 49
2.3 Legal idealism 50
2.3.1 Law and social order 50
2.3.2 Law and value 53
2.3.3 The validity of legal norms 59
2.3.4 Law and legal structure 60

3. The source of jus cogens obligations and no-competences 63
3.1 Introduction 63
3.2 Legal positivism 65
3.2.1 The challenge 65
3.2.2 Creating and establishing law 67

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3.2.3 The source of jus cogens obligations and
no-competences 73
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