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DESCRIPTION:The Oppenheimer Chair in Public International Law\, in collabor
 ation with Inter Gentes: The 51³Ō¹ĻĶųJournal of International Law & Legal P
 luralism\, is proud to welcome Jean d'Aspremont\, Professor of Public Inte
 rnational Law at the University of Manchester.\n\nAbstract\n\nIn this conf
 erence\, Jean dā€™Aspremont will introduce his book on ā€˜the mysticism of int
 ernational legal argumentationā€™. Whether it is construed as a set of proce
 sses\, rules\, ideas\, discourses\, or practices\, international law is be
 ing argued according to pre-reflectiveĀ structures. This book is intended a
 s an intervention in the contemporary legal debates about the pre-reflecti
 ve structures of international legal argumentation. In particular\, it see
 ks to shed a new light on the pre-reflective structures of internationalĀ l
 egal argumentation by virtue of an original descriptive and evaluative fra
 mework that distinguishes between the gospels and the sacred texts of inte
 rnational law. This book does so in discussing some of the most central pa
 tterns ofĀ argumentative structures of international law\, namely sources\,
  statehood\, ius cogens\, responsibility\, custom and the fundamental righ
 ts of states.\n\nApplied to contemporary international legal argumentation
  this three-tier framework will help demonstrate that some resilient type 
 of idealism lingers in international legal argumentation and comes in the 
 form of mysticism. By mysticism\, theĀ chapters of this book refer to the f
 alse genealogy that is established between some patterns of argumentative 
 structures (gospels) and some authoritative instruments (sacred texts) as 
 well as the mainstream conceptualization of such gospels asĀ rules properly
  so-called. While offering reflections on the enduring mystical character 
 of international legal thought and practice\, this book will simultaneousl
 y argue that mysticism is an inextricable component of international legal
  argumentationĀ in that it is what makes international legal argumentation 
 possible. Short of mysticism\, this book argues\, international lawyers wo
 uld be unable to formulate international legal arguments and battle with o
 ne another when interpreting andĀ constructing the law and the world.\n\nAb
 out the speaker\n\nJean dā€™Aspremont is Professor of Public International L
 aw at the University of Manchester where he founded the Manchester Interna
 tional Law Centre (MILC) with Professor Iain Scobbie. He is General Editor
  of the Cambridge Series inĀ International and Comparative Law and director
  of the Oxford Database on International Organizations. He is a member of 
 the Scientific Advisory Board of the European Journal of International Law
 . He is series editor of the Melland SchillĀ Studies in International Law.
 \n\nFind out more in the Oppenheimer Chair website.\n
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SUMMARY:The Mysticism of International Legal Argumentation
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