Fiduciaries of Humanity: How International Law Constitutes Authority. By Evan J. Criddle and Evan Fox-Decent

• Autores: Carlos Espaliú Berdud (res.)
• Localización: British year book of international law, ISSN 0068-2691, Nº 87, 2017 (Ejemplar dedicado a: Symposium on the Iraq Inquiry), págs. 276-279
• Idioma: inglés
• DOI: 10.1093/bybil/bry006

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  • Fiduciaries of Humanity: How International Law Constitutes Authority

    Evan J. Criddle, Evan Fox-Decent

    Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2016

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  • Evan J. Criddle and Evan Fox-Decent come from a multidisciplinary background in both their education and experience, combining public international law and legal theory with other disciplines of municipal law, such as administrative law and the law of fiduciaries. That background allows them to provide an original presentation of international law: the fiduciary theory, which ‘is fundamentally a legal and relational one of what it means for institutions to hold and exercise authority on behalf of others’, and ‘offers the possibility of explaining the authority and obligations of any and all institutions that purport to hold public authority’ (352). By means of the fiduciary theory, the authors have developed ‘a model for thinking about international law...